The spaciousness and energy at Abu Dhabi's National Exhibition Center make the just opened book fair there a sprawling, energetic event with a professional program at its heart.

 

The program of this year's Publishers Forum, organized by Klopotek, is to sort out genuinely promising tech from fads.

 

The first US and Canadian producers of merchandise licensed by the estate of Roald Dahl—the Roald Dahl Story Company—have been named, and Quentin Blake's imagery remains the foundation of the products to come.