The Brazilian publishers have already been preparing to attend the world’s biggest literary event, the 69th Frankfurt Book Fair, which will be held from October 11th to 15th, 2017.
Brazil will be represented by 32 publishers, in a space of 180 m², through Brazilian Publishers (BP), a project to promote the Brazilian publisher content exportations, a partnership between the Câmara Brasileira do Livro and the Agência Brasileira de Promoção de Exportações e Investimentos (Apex-Brasil).
Among the highlights of Brazil’s participation in the fair is a space dedicated to the Brazilian Innovation exposition, a partnership between the #coisadelivreiro – business and marketing company for the book – and the Brazilian Publishers, where five invited companies (Skoob, Ubook, Manifesto Games, TAG Livros and #coisadelivreiro) will present their business models, products, services and also promote possible partnerships with international players.
“Our goal is to show to the world that there is a lot of innovation among our entrepreneurs, not only in direct publisher production, mas also in the provision of services in the sector and that the Brazil also can launch market trends. We are internationally recognized as one of the world’s bigger creative economies and we want to perpetuate this image also in the innovation area for the book and for the reader.”, says Luiz Alvaro Salles Aguiar de Menezes, International Relations manager of CBL.
The Brazilian collective stand also will count with a reserved area to an exposition of the Prêmio Jabuti winning books, which this year will evaluate for the first time published works abroad with the new category “Brazilian Book Published Abroad”.
In addition, we are going to hold two Matchmakings, being one of them with Latin America countries and the other with China, providing meetings between Brazilian publishers with other countries players.
The schedule also includes lectures, events, meetings and the release of the catalog of books and rights, with content from supported publishers from Brazilian Publishers.
At the 2016 edition, we ended with about $ 620,000 in copyrights export and physical books with negotiations during the event and for the 12 following months. “This year the expectation is to reach $ 650,000, since the Brazilian publisher production’s beauty and diversity attract more and more the readers and publishers from abroad”, says Luís Antonio Torelli, president of CBL.
Among the 32 confirmed publishers, twenty-four are supporters of Brazilian Publishers. Check the list below, in alphabetical order, of the publishers that will exhibit at the 69th Frankfurt International Book Fair:
Brazilian Publisher of Art and Culture, Callis, Cortez Editora, DSOP – Educação Financeira, Edições Loyola, Edições Sesc SP, Editora da Universidade Federal do Pará, Editora Fiocruz, Editora Leopoldianum, Editora Unifesp, Editora IMEPH, Editora Melhoramentos, Editora Moderna/Salamandra, Editora Pipoca, Editora UNESP
Editora Universidade de Brasília, Editora Viajante do Tempo, Edusp, FTD Educação,
Girassol Brasil, Global Editora, Grupo A, Grupo Autêntica, Grupo Companhia das Letras
Letras do Pensamento Editora, Napoleão Editora, Pallas Editora, Pergunta Fixar, SESI-SP Editora, Todolivro and Ubook.
Press information
Câmara Brasileira do Livro Communication
Camila Del Nero – imprensa@cbl.org.br
Lis Ribeiro – lisribeiro@cbl.org.br
Phone number: 11-3069 -1300
About CBL
Founded on September 20th, 1946, the Câmara Brasileira do Livro (CBL) gathers publishers, booksellers, distributors and creditors from all over Brazil with the main objective of valuing the book, and, that way, developing and amplifying the market. The actions to spread and stimulate the reading habit and the democratization of the book access are the bigger ideals of the entity. The CBL organizes some of the most important and traditional events in the Brazilian publisher sector, such as the Bienal Internacional do Livro de São Paulo, the Prêmio Jabuti, the Congresso Internacional CBL do Livro Digital and the Escola do Livro, in addition to participating in national and international fairs. In 2016 the entity turned 70 years old.
About Brazilian Publishers
Brazilian Publishers (BP) is a sectorial project to promote Brazilian publisher content exportations, which results from a partnership between the CBL and the Agência Brasileira de Promoção de Exportações e Investimentos (Apex-Brasil). Created in 2008, the BP has the objective to leverage the global participation of Brazilian publisher content. The project facilitates the participation of Brazilian publishers at the main world’s literary fairs, the capacitation of the Brazilian publisher market and the relationship between its associates and possible buyers, looking forward to increasing the presence of our publisher production abroad and promote the internationalization of the national book industry and market.