Beijing Book Fair

As a first, SBPA organised a virtual Singapore pavilion on the Beijing International Book Fair’s website. 12 SBPA members participated in this maiden effort. The 12 publishers are Alston Publishing House, Asiapac Books, Casco Publications, English Corner Publishing, Experiences and Experiments Books, JSIM Education, Lingzi Media, NUS Press, Marshall Cavendish Education, Shing Lee Publishers, Singapore Asia Publishers and Star Publishing.

The virtual pavilion featured the abovementioned publishers and their books, as well as videos on the 2020 Singapore Book Awards finalists and corporate videos from the publishers. The virtual pavilion will be online until the start of the next Beijing International Book Fair in 2022. You can view it here

(https://www.bibf.net/en/readTheWorld/brankG?id=60fa85aef937ad6d66d65ef1 &exlogo=1&more=1)

SBPA also organised a networking webinar for China and Singapore publishers on 28 July. SBPA members had the opportunity to interact with the following China publishers.

• Beijing Publishing Group • Changjiang Children’s Publishing (Group) • China Economic Publishing House • China Intercontinental Press • China Machine Press • CITIC Press Group • Jieli Publishing House • Modern Education Press • New World Press Limited • Sanjin Publishing House • SDX Joint Publishing Company (Sanlian Bookhouse) • Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology • Yilin Press