Reed Exhibitions' Andy Ventris follows Jacks Thomas as the new director of London Book Fair, which expects to return to spring dates in 2022 after the 2021 summertime iteration.

Italy’s publishers and booksellers commend the government for allowing bookstores to operate amid COVID-19 restrictions, and Guadalajara becomes UNESCO’s 2022 World Book Capital.

Frankfurter Buchmesse and Goethe-Institut present a series of seminars on COVID-era book publishing and bookselling during the Thessaloniki Book Fair.