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The event also includes a dedicated conference, The Publishing Digital Minds Conference, held on the Monday before the main fair, as well as an educational programme of over 300 seminars and events as part of the Insights Programme.

The event also includes a dedicated conference, The Publishing Digital Minds Conference, held on the Monday before the main fair, as well as an educational programme of over 300 seminars and events as part of the Insights Programme.

Until 2006 the London Book Fair had been held at the Olympia exhibition centre, but it moved to the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London's Docklands that year. Due to generally unfavourable feedback from attendees over the new location with several reasons such as the inconvenience of transport links or the infrastructure of the location, also the intervention resulting form other exhibitions and their wandering visitors , the book fair returned to west London in 2007 and took place at Earls Court Exhibition Centre from 16 to 18 April. Every year since 2007 The London Book Fair has been held at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. LBF 2015 will take place in Olympia London on 14–16 April 2015 as part of London Book And Screen Week.

London Book and Screen Week

Launched in 2014, London Book and Screen Week was designed to celebrate the importance of the book and the written words at the heart of creative content across all formats. Comprising a week of events, the pinnacle of the week was The London Book Fair for the 43rd edition.

Taking place in a variety of venues across the capital, London Book and Screen Week welcomed all the publishing industry insiders and professionals involved in writing, reading and creating content for books and screens in all formats from e-reader to silver screen.

It incorporated, among others, the Publishing for Digital Minds Conference, the recently launched Tech Tuesday, writers from this year’s Market Focus and a direct-to-consumer creative writing event.

The week focussed on the business of publishing and storytelling from concept to consumer, shining a spotlight on authors, industry leaders, screen writers, agents, publishers, retailers, etailers, developers, technology gurus and start-ups. London Book and Screen Week 2015 occurred for five days, from Monday 07 until Friday, 13 April, 2015.

More than 25,000 publishers, booksellers, literary agents, librarians, media and industry suppliers from over 100 countries now attend the fair as the figures mentioned by Jacks Thomas, Director of The London Book Fair. Book publishers come to London to announce their upcoming titles and to sell and purchase subsidiaries and translation rights for books from other publishers.

Over 1700 international exhibitors participate in The London Book Fair. The fair itself covers a range of interests and markets within the publishing industry, including rights negotiation and the sales and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels, as well as more traditional forms of print publishing. There are many activities during the whole week of London Book Fair, arranging from the business meeting between publishing companies, introductions titles to the readers and visitors, announcement for prizes and awards, as well as many workshops, seminars to discuss about current issues and trends in the industry.

A new focus of the LBF 2015 is the attention to Video Games industry. With the development of digital technologies and an increasing level of engagement from people, especially children and young teenagers, many authors and publishers are looking for a new way to tell the stories, which can help the readers having more interactions with the fantasy and gaining new knowledge during the games. Several famous professionals from the Gaming industry have been to the fair and given speeches about their ideas, concepts that help both publishing and gaming industries to push the boundaries and create a new form of media convergence.

In 2012, The London Book Fair appointed China's censoring organization, the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), to choose which Chinese authors would be represented at the event. Chinese authors such as Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian were not invited. A representative of the British Council, a large financial supporter of the book fair, applauded the decision, saying that the chosen authors were more representative because “they live in China and write their books there,” in contrast with “other writers who have left.” The exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian used red paint to smear across his face and a copy of his banned book Beijing Coma while he protested the event. He was also "manhandled" while attempting to present a copy of the book to Liu Binjie at the fair.

The scope and influence of the event grew and began to encompass bigger and more general publishers."In 1975, the initials LBF made their first appearance when the fair was renamed SPEX'75: The London Book Fair. By 1977 SPEX had been dropped and the title London Book Fair was born."

External links

• London Book Fair Official Show Website (Reed Exhibitions)
• London Book Fair Official Twitter Account
• London Book Fair Official YouTube Channel

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• London Map Fair
• London International Antiquarian Book Fair Also known as Olympia Book Fair