Chew on This: Paris Inaugurates a Book Fair for Foodies
By Olivia Snaije - Publishing Perpectives

PARIS: It makes perfect sense that the first international cookbook trade fair will be held in Paris -- a city that, to many, remains the culinary capitol of the world. The Paris Cookbook Fair runs this week, from February 12-15, and its founder, Edouard Cointreau, hopes to unite the cosmopolitan network of food lovers and professionals he has established over the past 15 years as chairman and founder of Gourmand International, which gives out annually (the annual) the Gourmand Cookbook Awards.

Pic above - Edouard Cointrea, Founder of the Paris Cookbook Fair

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Cookbooks? Romance? Sci-fi? Is Niche the
Future of Fairs?
By Edward Nawotka

Today's lead story discusses the inaugural Paris Cookbook Fair, which takes place later this week. The fair focuses entirely on cookbooks, withan emphasis on selling rights to the titles on display. Cookbooks are, as Fair director Edouard Cointreau explains, growing some 5-10% per year and many bestselling books, such as those published by charity organizations around the world, don't even have ISBNs and are thus difficult to track. In this case, bringing all the cookbook publishers and titles under one roof might make sense -- but does it for other types of books?

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