How do online rights events organized by literary agencies, publishers, and others compare to the physical book fair experience? We hear from several rights folks on how it’s going so far.
At Brussels’ rights center for independent publishers, Talentueux Indes, in its first outing in 2020. Image: Foire du Livre de Bruxelles, Timote Meesen
Popup Rights Events: ‘Fairs’ and Meetups Online
Almost every time you look into your inbox, another invitation has arrived to a publishing industry event online, right? And as you may have noticed, the specialized rights sessions appear to be gaining on many of the other types of programs vying for your attention.
The upcoming professional Oulu Writers Association’s two-day rights symposium is for international publishers, editors, rights directors, literary agents, scouts, and translators.
Bikes in Helsinki on January 13. The photographer makes the point that this is in the southern part of Helsinki. Image – iStockphoto: Karis
‘Black Hole’ Includes Meetings for Rights Professionals
At the Helsinki Literary Agency, Urtė Liepuoniūtė has alerted us to an upcoming digital international rights symposium set for February 19 and 20.
Publishing Perspectives readers know Liepuoniūtė for the innovative podcast programming she started in December with the reindeer-denialist author Juhani Karila.
The effort has continued (while many such shiny new series fall by the wayside). February 6 now with some irony relative to the Trump domestic terrorist attack on the United States’ congress is the date on which the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim.