Asian publishing enhances the presence at the Frankfurt Book Association
On September 25, Ms. Claudia Kaiser, Vice Chairman of Frankfurt Book Association, had a online sharing session with a number of published units in Vietnam on the book Festival.
The Frankfurt 2025 Book Fair brings about 4,000-5,000 participants from more than 100 countries, and about 4,000 events are held throughout the festival.
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| The Frankfurt Book Fair gathered more than 100 participating countries. Image: Publishing Perspectives. |
This year, the Book Fair organized from October 15-19. In particular, the first 3 days include activities exclusively for entrepreneurs and publishers. This is a golden time for publishers and copyright representative companies to meet, negotiate and sign contracts.
To optimize the connection, the Organizing Committee has developed the online platform Frankfurt Connect. This platform allows participants to search for display units, view the contact information of the publisher, and search for related events. This is a useful tool to make an appointment, an extremely important preparation step because copyright appointments are usually scheduled from July, even January every year.
The public can go to the Frankfurt book on 2 weekends.
Many publishing trends will be discussed at the Asian stage
This year, the Philippines is the honorable guest country, bringing the theme The Imagination People The Air, inspired by the classic novel Noli Me Tangere of Van Hao José Rizal. The country is an honorable guest who has the opportunity to introduce books and the whole of the country’s cultural quintessence at the event.
The Philippine display area is located at the forum, F1 floor, with an area of thousands of square meters. Here, visitors will admire more than 500 typical books, and participate in seminars, reading, performing arts, music and cultural exchange activities.
It is expected that more than 100 Filipino writers and artists are expected to turn this space into an indispensable destination of this year’s bookshelf.
Claudia Kaiser said this year’s Asian stage is located in the center, demonstrating the important role of publishing this area. This is the place where talks on hot issues, new trends and cooperation potential of the Asian publishing industry with the world.
The program at this year’s Asian stage has content around the themes: Children’s book market, academic publishing in Asia, multimedia book format, censorship challenges and self -censorship in the context of the region. Many outstanding faces will attend discussions, such as journalist, author Patricia Evangelista, producer Tanya Yuson, or author Chuckberry J. Pascual.
In particular, Vietnam also participates in this area. The booths of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and the major publishers of Vietnam are present in hall 5.1, located in a favorable position. In addition to the display of books, the representative of Vietnam also participated in many activities, affirming the efforts to increase the presence and connection on the international arena.
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