London Book Fair 2024: challenges for publishers

Published by Maria Machado on

I went to London with a purpose. It’s always good to meet collaborators and friends, but I had other goals with my visit. You see, it’s never good when the decisions that impact us are arrived at without our input.

I wanted to bring awareness of my new peer review standards project to those in the publishing industry that can benefit from them. I’m comfortable researching and reviewing, even editing and managing the peer review process, but hearing editors and publishers speak of the big picture issue was an eye-opener.

Read the whole #LBF2024 report at stories4sci.blogspot.com/2024/03/london-book-fair-2024-challenges-for.html

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