‘Ask anyone who trades the international rights to books to name the most important days in the rights calendar and, despite technological developments creating a more connected world than ever before, they’ll say the Frankfurt Book Fair,’ says Airlie Lawson.
Having been doing it for twenty years, Lawson is well positioned to take a look at how the virtual book fair has altered the landscape of trading rights – and what that might mean for Australian authors and publishers in a post pandemic market.