30 August – 3 September 2010

China has one of the largest book publishing outputs in the world, producing 248,283 titles in 2007.  In that same year, China licensed 10,255 titles from foreign publishers (UK titles accounted for nearly 20% of these and the UK accounted for 30% of translated titles by value sold in the market).  UK exports to China increased rapidly in the early 2000s, peaking at £13.9m in 2006, but dipped to £10.9m 2007.

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28 - 31 March 2011

Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the world’s leading children’s publishing event.  This fair is exclusively for industry professionals and attracts a large international audience which includes: publishers, literary agents, packagers, printers, TV/Film producers, illustrators, librarians and many more. 

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23 - 26 MAY 2011

The USA market is the richest in the world, but needs special attention from UK publishers for any success to be achieved.  Net sales for US publishers were estimated at US$35.7bn in 2006; there were around 400 large and medium-sized publishers and 86,000 publishers in all, but the top 50 accounted for 80% of sales.  Trade sales accounted for 40% of the total, including religious books, which form 16% of trade sales, much higher than in the UK.  There were around 150,000 new titles published in 2006  of which 40,000 were produced by the trade publishers and university presses.

UK exports to the USA in 2007 were £212.9m, a slight reduction on 2006, probably due to the strength of sterling at that time.

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January/February 2011

Although there are many regional book fairs, this is the main event for international publishers, and it is organised by the National Book Trust India. The PA has organised a number of trade delegations to India in the past, but this is the first time that we have organised one to coincide with the book fair.

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