LGMW MAGAZINE

I've been reporting from one of the biggest bookfairs in the world – London Book Fair (LBF) for years, since 2009. Each year it features over a 1,000 exhibitors, over 34,000 professional attendees. Sounds impressive, right? Yes, but it has also become very... boring! No personal chats with authors, you can meet publishers by prior appointment only, and small publishers are lumped together under their countries' national flags, as if publishing is strictly the matter of your c