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LinkedIn Twitter Website Email YouTube This month in publishing news, textbooks 'pay for themselves' while the BBC announces an education strategy to encourage social mobility in the UK. For those staying at home, The London Book Fair is less than three weeks away while the more adventurous might find themselves at the New York Rights Fair. Finally, there are plenty of opportunities for professional development through free seminars on licensing and digital textbooks. PA & INDUSTRY NEWS Textbooks ‘pay for themselves’ if they save teachers 4.5 minutes a day A recent report by Frontier Economics on publishing’s contribution to school education has found that textbooks only need to save teachers four-and-a-half minutes a day in order to pay for themselves with survey data suggesting they save 18 minutes a day or more. Commissioned by the Publishers Association, the new research indicates that cutting textbook spend is a false economy and demonstrates the important role good quality textbooks can play in saving teacher time. Read the full report on our website. What’s happening at The London Book Fair 2018 With less than a month to go, preparations for The London Book Fair (10-12 April) are heating up. The Publishers Association supports a range of activity at the Fair from awards (CAMEOs and International Excellence Awards) to conferences (What Works? education conference and the Research & Scholarly Publishers Forum) as well as the bookcareers.com's Careers Clinic. We also have seminars on social mobility and accessibility and will be launching our 'A Blueprint for UK Publishing' at a Brexit panel event. Come find us on our stand 6E50 in the Grand Hall. New York Rights Fair: 30 May- 1 June 2018 The Department for International Trade is providing TAP grants for SMEs with fewer than 250 employees and less than $50m turnover to exhibit at the New York Rights Fair. The grants are £2,500 and will reduce a 2-panel stand package on the UK pavilion organised by the Publishers Association in partnership with DIT to £1,137 and a 3-panel package to £2,955. The deadline for booking space is next Friday 30th March 2018. For more information, please contact Gloria Bailey. BBC announces new Education Strategy to encourage social mobility in the UK The BBC has moved to put social mobility at the heart of their education strategy with a new plan to improve disadvantaged children’s communications and literacy skills. The organisation will work with partners, including the National Literacy Trust, to develop a coordinated approach that will see them reach literacy targets for a million under-fives. Read more about the strategy here. PLS launches series of seminars and webinars on collective licensing and permissions Publishers’ Licensing Services has launched a series of free seminars and webinars for editors, publishers and authors. They include introductions to collective licensing and permissions licensing. Places are offered on a first-come, first-served basis so early booking is encouraged. Digital Textbooks: Where are we? The Publishers Association is supporting an afternoon seminar organised by the Department of Information Studies at University College London on Thursday 10th May. The seminar will aim to answer where the growth in digital textbooks is heading by looking at what they are, who is providing them, the potential take-up and costs, and the experiences of current users. Read the draft programme. It will be held in Room G08 of the Roberts Building at 1:30 PM. Online booking is available here. Tickets are £50 for members of the Publishers Association. DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Bologna Children's Book Fair 26-29 March 2018, Bologna The London Book Fair 10-12 April 2018, London The CAMEO Awards 9 April 2018, London A ‘Bookish Brexit’ 10 April 2018, London International Excellence Awards 10 April 2018, London Social Mobility, Apprenticeships and Broadening the Talent Search for UK Publishing 11 April 2018, London Bookcareers.com Careers Clinic 12 April 2018, London Copyright – How to get what you need in the digital age 17 April 2018, London Digital textbooks: where are we? 10 May 2018, London Negotiating for a Win-Win Outcome 22 May 2018, London Selling Rights Short Course 4-5 June 2018, London   An Introduction to Production 28 March 2018, London Quantum Conference 9 April 2018, London What Works? Education Conference 10 April 2018, London Charles Clark Memorial Lecture 10 April 2019, London Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum 11 April 2018, London Accessible Publishing—Strategies for success 12 April 2018, London Member-Only Breakfast Briefing with Graham Stuart MP 17 April 2018, London Implementing Thema 17 April 2018, London Academic Book Trade Conference 10-11 May 2018, London New York Rights Fair 30 May to 1 June 2018, New York   Copyright © 2018 The Publishers Association, All rights reserved.               Our mailing address is: 50 Southwark Street London SE1 1UN