The International Book Fair in Buenos Aires ended and in an unusual way, since after 45 years uninterrupted, the traditional meeting offered an online edition for reasons of public knowledge.

In that context, The Book Foundation, fair organizer, through the testimonies of its President and its Institutional and Cultural Director, took stock of the event and released the most significant numbers of the largest cultural event in the region.

"The Fair could not, no way, absent without saying a word, because you have a commitment to exhibitors, with those who carry out activities and with the public ”, argued María Teresa Carbano, President of the Fundación El Libro.

On the other hand, the board stated that "we are a Foundation that promotes the book, as a reading tool and as an object of an industry, who is in such a critical situation, so economically beaten and yet does not abandon its main objective because it must continue working for these objectives in any of the circumstances and by any possible means. The broadcast of the program on Public TV shows such a thing ”.

"Have a virtual cultural program, accompanying it on the same website with the proposals of the exhibitors themselves and even with a service such as the map of bookstores was an experience never thought of and with surprising results. There were proposals that had ten times more views than they could have in a room "said Oche Califa, Institutional and Cultural Director-. further, the links will stay for a while, so whoever didn't enjoy them now, he will do it whenever he wants”.

General numbers of the Virtual Fair

– More of 180.000 Pages viewed at www.el-libro.org.ar

– 324.700 friends on Facebook

– 53.000 videos seen on the Youtube Channel

– 50.300 followers on instagram

– 7500 Soundcloud plays

– 74.000 Twitter followers

– 3 times trending in Argentina on Twitter:

#VamosFILBuenosAires. Trend 2 the 30 April when it was due to open

#BBBFILBuenosAires. Trend 6 the 10 May celebration of the Youth Movement #LaFeriaNoSeRinde. Trend 20 the 16 May the day of the program on Public TV

Numbers of professional and commercial proposals

– 403 online exhibitors

– More of 180 professionals of 22 countries registered to meetings with exhibitors (the meeting request is still open)

– More of 20.000 Visualizations of the Traveler Books map

– 679 bookstores of all the provinces of the country adhered to Traveling Books

– 24 Provincial directories: with the data of the attached bookstores.

– 1080 libraries participating in the Book Program%

– More of 200 publishers participating in the Book Program%

Cultural program numbers:

149 participants (writers, actors, poets, storytellers and interviewers)

– 25 poets of 8 countries (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Spain)

101 cultural proposals, with the following specific description:

– 48 specially made for this edition of the Fair (26 are oral narrations)

– 18 from other Fairs;

– 22 were contribution of 6 exhibitors

– 5 shows (plays and recitals);

– 1 Photoshow;

– 2 interviews recovered in our sound archive;

– 5 institutions collaborated with the programming: Argentine Academy of Letters, Library of the National Congress, ETER, Argentores and Brazilian Book Chamber.

Educational area numbers:

-10.600 video views on the site “Between quotation marks”

Press numbers:

– More of 430 press releases among television media, radial, graphics, digital and media agencies

– Notes in the Argentine media, Spain, France, Germany, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile and Cuba.

Most viewed and shared:

– Youtube channel: Casciari reading at Fairs with 11.337 views and video of World Book Day in tribute to Argentine writers with 8.475 views.

– Most viewed video of Entrecomillas: "Diversity adds up", by Rebeca Anijovich, with 3892 reproductions

– Souncloud podcasts: Adolfo Bioy Casares with 887 reproductions and Story narrated by Dora Pastoriza de Etchebarne with 816 reproductions

– Virtual Poetry Festival on YouTube. 1190 views of Hugo Mujica and 400 views of Marta López Luaces.

– Photo of the Day: Quino was the most commented and shared on Facebook and Twitter and María Elena Walsh on Instagram

News

– Two-hour program on Public TV “The Fair does not give up” led by Cristina Mucci and Osvaldo Quiroga

– Podcast opening on Soundcloud –

– Photo of the Day. Every day an author or prominent event of the Fair was chosen. It is an action that is here to stay