BIEF
The International Bureau of French Publishing
During the Fair, several hundred book industry professionals from around the world will be visiting the BIEF stand to gather information and meet French publishers, typically export or foreign rights managers, representatives of the National Book Centre and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and many of the cultural attachés from the French embassy book offices.
• “Trade Cafés”
Three trade cafés dedicated to three different countries will be organised on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the Fair. These trade cafés are a chance for French publishers to acquaint themselves with a foreign market. Participants are divided into small groups and travel from table to table discovering a new world by meeting foreign industry professionals. Comprehensive analyses of the participating countries’ book markets allow participants to focus on a particular topic to gain more insight and identify possible areas of cooperation.
French publishers who are interested in participating can register at the BIEF website, www.bief.org, at the end of February.
• Meetings between French and foreign trade professionals
The BIEF is organising a seminar in mid-March that will be attended by a delegation from a guest country. A special issue of La Lettre du BIEF (the BIEF trade publication) will be published for the occasion and distributed on the BIEF stand. The list of guests and their contact details will be available on the BIEF website.
• Auxiliary events
The BIEF will be hosting young publishers from a dozen non-French-speaking countries as part of a fellowship-style programme and will also be arranging a seminar for publishers from sub-Saharan Africa. Participants in these events will be at the Fair from Sunday onwards. Full details about this and programmes aimed at all foreign book professionals visiting the Paris Book Fair will be posted on our website at www.bief.org as and when they become available.
Three trade cafés dedicated to three different countries will be organised on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the Fair. These trade cafés are a chance for French publishers to acquaint themselves with a foreign market. Participants are divided into small groups and travel from table to table discovering a new world by meeting foreign industry professionals. Comprehensive analyses of the participating countries’ book markets allow participants to focus on a particular topic to gain more insight and identify possible areas of cooperation.French publishers who are interested in participating can register at the BIEF website, www.bief.org, at the end of February.
• Meetings between French and foreign trade professionals
The BIEF is organising a seminar in mid-March that will be attended by a delegation from a guest country. A special issue of La Lettre du BIEF (the BIEF trade publication) will be published for the occasion and distributed on the BIEF stand. The list of guests and their contact details will be available on the BIEF website.
• Auxiliary events
The BIEF will be hosting young publishers from a dozen non-French-speaking countries as part of a fellowship-style programme and will also be arranging a seminar for publishers from sub-Saharan Africa. Participants in these events will be at the Fair from Sunday onwards. Full details about this and programmes aimed at all foreign book professionals visiting the Paris Book Fair will be posted on our website at www.bief.org as and when they become available.
