Turkey will the "market focus" country at the London Book Fair in 2013.

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General Director of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism Onur Bilge Kula says in the announcement: "The London Book Fair will be a good stage in which Turkish literature and publishing sector can show their strength, creativity and dynamism to help increase their market share in the English speaking world." They will also use the fair to promote their TEDA translation project said to have "subsidized almost 1,000 publishers, including some British publishers, around the world. We hope that more British publishers will apply to be part of the TEDA Project in the run-up and during LBF 2013 Market Focus Turkey."

Here's an oddity to share. Having logged about a dozen college campus tours in the last six months, I can assure you that one of stock elements is to point out a building (usually, but not always, a dining hall) and insist that it was part of the inspiration for the depiction of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies. But Oxford University has gone a step further, and is launching a line of licensed furniture. The Telegraph, which has seen the style guide being provided to prospective licensees, says that a refectory table in The Oxford Collection is described as a "Harry Potter-style dining table." The paper adds, in tour-worthy style, "many of the scenes set in the Great Hall of Hogwarts in the blockbuster wizarding franchise were filmed in Christ Church’s dining hall."But if Oxford is using Potter to market their products, we imagine they will hear shortly from the loyal order of Cease & Desist (or at least Warner Bros.)