The 57th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair ended on May 7th, with a great success. More than 60.000 visitors, with over 400.000 visited pages, and 500 publishers registered on the Global Right Exchange Platform in only 4 days, for a total of 20.000 uploaded titles. The fair’s organizers cancelled the 2020 edition, which was supposed to take place in Bologna, from March … Continued
The Italian book Expo in Torino, Northern Italy, will launch its online program on May 14th until May 17th, 2020. The program of the Salone del Libro di Torino Extra, offers a great variety of online events, such as live streaming interviews and stories with national and international guests. The program for Friday May 15th is also scheduled on the National Radio channel, Rai … Continued
The online special edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair was launched on may 4t and will close on May 7th, 2020. The focus of the online fair is the book rights market, which is promoted through a virtual hub powered by PubMatch, and through various online stands for publishers, editors and translators. The program is full of webinars, virtual exchange settings, prize announcements, … Continued
Italy will start phase two of easing the lock down situation, on May 4th. Italy was the first European country to be dangerously hit by the virus emergency. The country had to make quick arrangements and sudden adaptations to the new reality, and after two months of lock down, the number of deaths is slowly decreasing. One of the first publishers to reopen is … Continued
The 10th edition of the Italian initiative Il Maggio dei Libri, officially started on April 22 and will last until October 31st, 2020. The initiative was created by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e per il Turismo in 2011, with the intention of celebrating reading and sustaining the publishing world. The initiative functions as a platform, in which individuals, schools, … Continued
As promised, The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is ready to go virtual. The BCBF is launching the new online platform, which will be accessible to publishers and literary agents who participated as visitors in 2019 and who had already pre-registered for the 2020 edition. The fair will open to its online community on May 4 until May 7, offering many options for online business … Continued
On the News page of the International Publishers Association (Ipa), we read: “On occasion of the Sinai Liberation Day on April 25, with Ramadan, the month of forgiveness, approaching, IPA reiterates its appeal to Egyptian president to release Egyptian publisher Khaled Lotfy”. Ipa continues to ask the Egyptian president Abdel Fatah el-Sisi to release publisher Khaled Lofty, who was sent in 2019 to 5 … Continued
Comic Con Convention, to be held at the end of July 2020 in the San Diego Convention Center, has now been cancelled. According to the State of California it would not be safe to move forward with plans for this year. The convention is scheduled for next year, from July 22 to 25, 2021. Even the opening of the Comic-Con Museum in the summer … Continued
The major book fairs in Latin America (Peru, Argentina & Colombia) are facing the hard decision of cancelling their cultural events in their effort of fighting the spreading of COVID-19. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reports in Colombia, in mid April, a total of 3,105 confirmed cases and 131 deaths, in Argentina 2,571 cases and 112 deaths, while in Peru, there are 11,475 … Continued
Italian bookstores are now allowed to open to public, but how? On April 14th, the Italian Government officially ruled that bookstore may be allowed to let one person into a store at a time. The decision seems to be a small compromise towards the end of the locked down initiatives and towards the healing of the country. Ricardo Franco Levi, director of the … Continued
