In the wake of the success of previous editions, the Rights Centre of Più libri più liberi is back again this year, with the aim of enhancing and boosting the growing internationalization of small and medium-sized publishing houses at the fair.
WHEN AND WHERE
The Rights Centre will be open on December 4th and 5th on floors N4 and N5 of La Nuvola.
FOREIGN ATTENDEES
The Rights Centre will count this year 60 foreign attendees with whom the fair’s exhibitors will be able to dialogue for the purchase and sale of rights through one-to-one meetings. The appointments, thanks to the matchmaking platform implemented last year, are already being scheduled.
Attached is the complete list of foreign publishers, coming from Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, United States of America, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, and Turkey.
THE ITALIAN PUBLISHING MARKET
The AIE Research Department will present the main data on the Italian publishing market to the foreign operators attending the Rights Centre, in a conference designed to spread knowledge of our publishing industry abroad and foster exchanges with international markets.
THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Fellowship Program connected to the Rights Centre will develop as usual in the days immediately preceding the fair. This year the program involves 6 publishers from Poland, specializing in various literary genres for children and adults, to strengthen the exchanges between Italian and Polish publishers started in May with Italy Guest of Honour at the Warsaw Book Fair 2024.
Polish publishers will visit some Roman publishing houses exhibiting at Più libri più liberi (Gallucci Editore, 66th and 2nd, Castelvecchi and Elliot Edizioni, Round Robin, Orecchio Acerbo, Bibliotheka). Space will be given both to comics, through a guided tour of the exhibition “La Biblioteca letteraria di Hugo Pratt” curated by Cong Sa and Fondazione Marco Besso, and to illustration, with a visit to the studio of Antonio Pronostico, the illustrator who created the 2024 fair poster. Polish publishers will also have the opportunity to explore one or more local bookstores, thus delving into the local publishing scene, and to participate in networking moments with Italian publishers thanks to an event organized at the Istituto Polacco di Roma.
Delegates 2024
Rights Centre and Fellowship Program are made possible thanks to the support of ITA-Italian Trade Agency and the Regione Lazio through Lazio Innova, with funds from PR FESR LAZIO 2021-2027, the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, and with contributions from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair – BolognaFiere.
The Rights Centre is reserved for fair exhibitors and/or their agents.
For more information:
rights@plpl.it – 02 89280801
