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Bandra : Frankfurter Buchmesse, (Frankfurt Book Fair), the world’s largest book publishers’ fair, was held from 18 to 22 October 2023, in Frankfurt. This year marked the 75th anniversary of the event. According to the Fair’s database, the Fair was attended by 215,000 visitors, of whom 105,000 were trade visitors across the globe. Fr. Sajith Cyriac, General Editor of our Publications, participated in the Fair to renew our rapport with the existing contacts and obtain licenses for new books from some of the well-known publishers. “This being my first visit to the fair, I found it quite fruitful and positive in terms of our apostolate. I had made prior appointments with 26 publishers, and I could identify and ask for over 40 titles. Now we have a tedious process of going through the reading copies and finalising and negotiating on the titles in which we are interested,” says Fr. Sajith. The booth of our publishing branch in Italy (San Paolo) served as a point of reference for our contacts.
Fr Jose Pottayil (Reporter@Bandra)