KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 (Bernama) – The world’s third largest book fair, Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2018 has put up another record performance in its 37th annual edition with 2.23 million visitors in 11 days.
Organised by the Sharjah Book Authority (SBA) in the emirate of Sharjah, cultural capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), SIBF 2018 also served 20 million books and attracted 230,000 school students from around the country, according to a statement.
Themed ‘A Tale of Letters’, the book fair hosted 1,874 publishers from 77 countries who brought in 1.6 million titles – 80,000 for the first time.
It also offered its stage to 1,800 events spanning celebrity author talks, seminars, book signings, poetry and storytelling, theatre, arts, entertainment and more.
This year, the fair saw the fifth edition of the annual SIBF/ALA Library Conference organised in partnership between the SBA and the American Library Association (ALA).
The conference was attended by over 400 librarians and academics from the region and the world, who partook in over 25 panel discussions and networking events to discuss the changing role of libraries in the era of digitisation.
The three-day SIBF Publishers Conference engaged 486 publishers with panel discussions and 3,000 “Matchmaking Meetings”. These meetings resulted in the signing of 2,884 translation rights agreements.
These activities received 2.7 billion impressions on social media. The #SIBF18 reached 300 million users via 70,000 posts on its official social media accounts.
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