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Havana, Feb 17. - To promote new opportunities and experiences around reading and learning, the Third Business Forum for Publishers and Book Professionals will begin today, in the context of the XXXIII International Book Fair of Havana (FILH, for its acronym in Spanish).
From the San Carlos de La Cabaña Fortress in this capital, which hosts the FILH, the Cuban Book Institute and the Cuban Book Chamber, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, will develop this initiative in a unique networking day dedicated to joint work, designed for book professionals and publishers to discover new business models.
The Fair's website and the call for this Monday's event state that knowledge, experiences and strategies for success in the publishing business will be shared through emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and virtual reality.
During the networking day, several topics of interest will be addressed, including the digitalization of the publishing sector, innovation in content, co-publishing, and the economic and political challenges for the book industry, to name just a few approaches.
It will be the space for presentations of projects and strategic alliances, all with the aim of promoting culture and especially reading in all possible formats.
As part of the Forum and throughout the FILH, a Negotiating Committee meets to facilitate the formation of businesses, the signing of memoranda, contracts, conventions and agreements, as well as the consolidation of new commercial ties and the creation of strategic alliances for the publishing industry.
During the second edition, which took place in 2024, conferences dedicated to the current state of the publishing industry in Latin America were held and the business portfolio and projections of the Cuban Book Chamber were presented.
At that event, the results of the alliance between Sumat SRL, a solutions company for digital transformation, and the Gente Nueva publishing house were shown with audiobooks and augmented reality that this year at the FILH are made available to readers with great reception.
For this Monday, the Fair's program also includes the presentation of the Nicolás Guillén (Poetry) and Alejo Carpentier (Novel, Short Story and Essay) Awards for the year 2024.
The Sed de Belleza label of the province of Villa Clara will be in charge of presenting a dozen texts from its catalog, to celebrate the quarter century since the creation of the Territorial Editions System (SET, for its acronym in Spanish).
As part of the People's Library, the reading public will be able to enjoy the launch of Poesía, by José Martí; Poesía completa I and II, by Nicolás Guillén and Poesía completa, by José Lezama Lima, compilations by Letras Cubanas.
The XXXIII International Book Fair of Havana is dedicated to Francisca López Civeira, multi-award-winning historian, professor and researcher, and to Virgilio López Lemus, outstanding poet, translator and essayist.
The Republic of South Africa is the Guest of Honor and pays tribute to the 130th anniversary of the death in combat of José Martí and the 25 years of the SET. (Text and Photo: ACN)
