2021-04-22 18:05:25 GMT2021-04-23 02:05:25(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
ATHENS, April 22 (Xinhua) World Book Day, which falls on April 23, will feel different this year across Greece. Gone are the book fairs, and there will be no competitions and festivities in libraries and in the streets.
But there are still reasons by the plenty to celebrate as books can always take their readers to new places even if they can t travel, book lovers told Xinhua in Athens. They acknowledged, though, that the financial results of the Greek book publishing market are anything but glorious. World Book Day is celebrated to remind all of us that the book is primarily a cultural asset and secondarily a commercial product, Nestoras Poulakos, co-owner of the Vakxikon Media & Publishing Group, told Xinhua in a recent interview. By reading books, people can travel, become better persons and heal their souls. I hope that the oversupply of books will continue, enabling each of us to find the ones
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The transition to vom Cleff’s leadership of Germany’s Börsenverein is scheduled for the new year. Alexander Skipis is thanked for his work in the national and international arenas.
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Vom Cleff: ‘The Cultural Asset That Is the Book’
Our
Publishing Perspectives readers will remember our announcement in September that Peter Kraus vom Cleff had taken over the role of president of the Federation of European Publishers, with Italy’s Ricardo Franco Levi as vice-president.
Today’s announcement (April 14) from the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Germany’s publishers and booksellers association, is that vom Cleff has also been named the Börsenverein’s managing director, with a start date of January 1.
‘A Useful Tool, Especially for Publishers’
Ijn announcing today (March 1) its new Publishing Distribution Platform, the Madrid-based International Publishing Distribution Association (IPDA) is collaborating with the
And not unlike the digital publishing events we’ve been discussing in recent editions of our report, the new platform is another digital tool being added to the international industry’s efforts to develop and widen their business reach, opening new markets amid the constraints of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic with no reason that its usefulness can’t go on in our vaccinated future.
José Manuel Anta, managing director at FANDE, tells
Publishing Perspectives, “During the last years, we’ve received feedback from different sources especially at Frankfurter Buchmesse from publishers and other content providers who are looking for distribution companies in various parts of the world, to gain more access into international markets.
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