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Chamber, local acronym CBL, (seebox on page 42). These small andmedium-size publishers would nothave had the individual resources totake part in such a fair and the initiativeallowed them to hold morethan 900 meetings and sell US$35,000 in authors´ rights. (The bigpublishers would not reveal theirfigures.). “The business only beginsat the trade fair and comes aboutgradually,” said the CBL president,Karine Pansa. “We expect to negotiateanother US$ 135,000 in authors´rights in the coming 12 months.”The numbers are still modest butthey point to a promising change.Brazilian publishers no longer goto the fair only to buy foreign booksbut also to exhibit their own authorson the global market. Countriesthat showed the greatest interest inBrazil´s publishing production inFrankfurt were Germany and theTHE WORLD´S BIGGEST READERSStudy by the International Publishers Associationoutlines the world´s publishing market(€ billion) (PER milLION INHABITANTS)ESTIMATED marketVALUEBOOKS LAUNCHED ORREISSUEDWorld 105.6 -US 31 1,080China 10.6 245Germany 9.7 1,172Japan 7.1 -France 4.6 1,242UK 4.1 2,459Italy 3.4 956Spain 2.9 1,692Brazil 2.5 285India 2.5 -Fonte: International Publishers Association (IPA), Drawing the Global Map of Publishing Markets 2012revistapib.com.br 41