BLOG & PUBLICATIONS

After a thriving and successful first edition in 2023, the Book 2.0 festival returned to the Portuguese capital on the 5th and 6th of September as a leading forum on the future of reading and the book sector, reuniting notable European and international figures to discuss various related topi

The summer edition of our EIBF Insights newsletter is now available!Welcome to a new edition of EIBF Insights, our quarterly newsletter dedicated to sharing news from the EIBF world and the wider bookselling industry. 

This 27th and 28th of May, EIBF participated in the 3rd edition of World Expression Forum, a conference taking place in Lillehammer, Norway, and is a meeting place and driving force for global cooperation to ensure freedom of expression for future generations.

Last May, EIBF attended the Brussels Economic Forum (BEF), the annual flagship economic conference of the European Commission aimed at bolstering conversation and discussion around key economic topics within Europe, which took place in Brussels, Belgium. Continue reading for a summary of the event.

EIBF attended the 7th edition of the Rencontres nationales de la librairie, in Strasbourg, France. Read our impressions below.

On 25-26 March 2024, EIBF attended the second annual Day of European Authors conference, held at the central art museum M Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.

Following yesterday’s World Book Day, EIBF proudly unveils our new manifesto for the upcoming European legislative term of 2024-2029.

Today, during the last plenary session of the current mandate, the European Parliament adopted its position on the proposal for a Late Payment Regulation, a file of crucial importance for the European book sector.

Following the adoption of the new Hong Kong Security Law on 19 March 2024, the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) are concerned at the limits this law will create on the freedom to publish in Hong Kong.

The European International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) is extremely proud to not only have organised yet another successful bookselling conference, but also to be able to have it as a stage on which to amplify gro

After a dazzling debut conference last year in Prague, the EIBF led and organised RISE Bookselling Conference came back bigger and better this year, hosted at the iconic and picturesque Centro Cultural de Belém complex in Lisbon, Portugal.

Today, the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee adopted its position on the proposal for a Late Payment Regulat