Shifting landscape of international book fairs. Image Shutterstock.
‘Ask anyone who trades the international rights to books to name the most important days in the rights calendar and, despite technological developments creating a more connected world than ever before, they’ll say the Frankfurt Book Fair,’ says Airlie Lawson.
Fast forward to 2020 and the COVID 19 pandemic, one of the industries most important rights fairs went virtual, ‘but many of the usual suspects including the multinationals, Penguin Random House and Harper Collins stayed home,’ said Lawson.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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