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Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) is a major annual literary and publishing event held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. As one of the world's largest book fairs, it hosted 2,033 exhibitors from 109 countries in 2023 and featured a broad range of activities throughout its 12-days.
It started primarily as a trade fair (for librarians and teachers), but is now the largest literary festival in Scandinavia and the second largest book fair in Europe after the Frankfurt Book Fair. [3] The book fair usually takes place in the last week of September each year. It has around 100,000 visitors and 900 exhibitors annually. [1] [4]
Book TV covers established and upcoming nonfiction authors, mainly in the subject areas of history, biography and public affairs. Approximately 2,000 authors are featured annually, [3] and in one year Book TV may cover as many as 60,000 titles. [4] The network's production budget for Book TV is approximately $600,000 per year. [3] [5]
The twelfth book fair in 2019 had 55,000 visitors, which in turn set a new record. The area was expanded by 1,000 m 2 to 12,000 m 2 . A total of 385 exhibitors from 25 countries presented their publishers and institutions. 575 authors and contributors participated in more than 500 events over five days at the fair and at 35 locations in Vienna.
Earlier fairs were held at plazas, venues, or the Buenos Aires Cabildo. There was a great fair in 1930 at the Plaza de la República. [3] Those fairs, however, were not held in regular periods. The SADE sought in 1971 a way to encourage the publishing business in Argentina, promoting more than 35 fairs in the 71-74 period.
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most important cultural annual event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. [1]
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Subsequently, the scope and influence of the event grew and began to encompass bigger and more general publishers. In 1975, the initials LBF made their first appearance when the fair was renamed SPEX'75: The London Book Fair. By 1977 SPEX had been dropped and the title London Book Fair was born. [2] London Book Fair at Earls Court