INDUSTRY NEWS

Euroffice UK Celebrates 25 Years of Delivering Customer-Focused Workplace Solutions

21 APRIL 2025

London, 1st of November 2024 – Euroffice, a leading retailer of workplace supplies, proudly marks its 25th anniversary this November. Established in 1999, Euroffice began with the goal of providing accounting systems to small businesses via the internet. Although the idea was ahead of its time in the late '90s, the founders quickly identified a significant gap in the market: small and medium-sized businesses weren’t receiving competitive prices or quality customer service when sourcing workplace solutions. Euroffice set out to change this.

Freeman Francis Pinter featured in Publishing Perspectives

16 APRIL 2025

Frances Pinter: ‘A Risk of Spreading Disinformation’

Among some of the scientific and academic publishing worlds’ best-regarded leadership figures, Frances Pinter directs author relations for both the CEU Press (Central European University) and Amsterdam University Press.

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BOSS Leaders of the Future Conference Review

14 APRIL 2025

A packed room of future leaders attended a bi-annual conference at Fellowes Brands in Doncaster on 10th April.

Keynote Speaker, Nick Saunders was first on the agenda running an energetic and dynamic morning session titled 'Connection, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution: Turning Relationships into Results'. He coached delegates on how to turn relationships into results, by delivering a powerful message in a highly entertaining style that is unusual, unstuffy and unpretentious.

Liveryman Brandon Millan featured in the Hollywood Reporter

14 APRIL 2025

A Long-Forgotten Satire of Jews in Hollywood Gets New Life. The hilarious, long-out-of-print 1931 novel ‘Rabbi Burns’ gets the re-issue it deserves.

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Updates from Leigh Stationers' Academy

11 APRIL 2025

MASTER THE VERSATILITY OF LABELS PRINTING

10 APRIL 2025

Monisha Shah Announced as New PLS Chair

10 APRIL 2025

Publishers’ Licensing Services is delighted to announce that Monisha Shah will become the next PLS Chair, succeeding Rosie Glazebrook, whose term comes to an end on 31 May.

Monisha has extensive experience of chair and board level roles within the creative industries, tech, and legal sectors. She is currently Council Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of UK Research and Innovation, Board Director and Council Member at the Advertising Standards Authority, Chair of the King’s Counsel Appointments Board, and Chair of Wikimedia UK. She is also currently a trustee of the Art Fund and Royal Collection Trust.

Upcoming Exhibition: The Edwardians: Age of Elegance

8 APRIL 2025

Explore the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age – the period between the Victorian era and the First World War.

Visitors will learn about the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary – from their family lives and personal collecting to their glittering social circles and spectacular royal events.

More than 300 objects from the Royal Collection will be on display – almost half for the first time – including works by the most renowned contemporary artists of the period, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent and William Morris.  The Edwardians: Age of Elegance: The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace,

Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book

7 APRIL 2025

An intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan deeds register for nearly 400 years. Researchers have finally been able to reveal it with cutting-edge techniques.

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Updates from Leigh Stationers' Academy

4 APRIL 2025

FESPA Global Print Expo 2025

3 APRIL 2025

Preparations for the return of FESPA Global Print Expo 2025, European Sign Expo and Personalisation Experience are well underway. We’re thrilled to be back in Berlin for this year’s event with our new strapline ‘Where Visionaries Meet’, which shines a spotlight on our forward-thinking FESPA community.

From the 6 – 9 May 2025, at Messe Berlin, Germany, the co-located events will be a pivotal meeting point for forward thinking Visionaries in the print sector to connect and share their thoughts on the future of the industry; explore current trends; and see an array of new technologies, solutions, media and consumables across specialty print and signage.

Authors Guild Launches “Human Authored” Certification to Preserve Authenticity in Literature

1 APRIL 2025

AI-generated books are flooding online marketplaces and increasingly look like, and sometimes even read like, human-authored books. The reader may have no way of knowing if a book they come across is AI-generated or authored by a human. The Authors Guild believes that readers have the right to know if a text was written by AI or a human, and that writers should have the ability to distinguish their work in increasingly AI-saturated markets.  

Today, the Authors Guild unveils “Human Authored”—a first-of-its-kind official certification system that writers and publishers will be able to use in their books and in marketing to indicate if the text of a book was human-written.