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Book fairs and reading events took place throughout the year. The World Book Capital programme 2014 granted people access to more libraries and more literary activities in the city. The programme encouraged young people to use facts from their lives to tell their own stories, through the usage of technology and social media.
The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: Frankfurter Buchmesse, abbr. FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main , Germany .
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.
BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) was an annual book trade fair in the United States.BEA is almost always held in a major city over four days in late May and/or early June.
March 10, 2024 () Participants: 130,000 (2024) ... The Tucson Festival of Books is a free annual book fair held in Tucson, ... 2021 unknown (online) owl: Lisa See: 2022
1851 – London, United Kingdom – The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations – The Crystal Palace (typically listed as the "first world's fair") [13] 1852 – Cork, Ireland – Irish Industrial Exhibition [14] 1853 – Naples, Two Sicilies – Solenne Pubblica Esposizione di Arti e Manifatture [15]
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]
Organized by the TDC before the first Hong Kong Book Fair, the Hong Kong publishers on their own in the Hong Kong City Hall held book fair. 1989 after the completion of the first Convention and Exhibition Centre, the publishing industry felt the need to develop the Book Fair a larger, more professional, better service platform for the industry, thus requiring the TDC to assist the industry ...