London Book Fair announces Award for Brill

The publisher has won the Academic and Professional Publisher International Excellence Award.


The London Book Fair, in association with the UK Publishers Association presents awards across seventeen categories ranging from bookselling to literary translations.  Each judging panel is made up of sector experts.

The judges noted commended Brill’s

 “…tremendous capacity for innovation… launching interesting and perhaps unexpected programmes in Open Access publishing as well as developing significantly the digital possibilities of their traditional outputs. With annual rates of publication close to 1,400 new books and 284 journals and offices in three continents, Brill are a significant force in global publishing, and remind the wider scholarly publishing community of the continued importance of the commercial sector in the dissemination of the arts and social sciences - something all too often overlooked.”

Source: Brill.

For a full list of the London Book Fair Award winners go here.