Written by: Alice Hribalova
Featured Image

Nadia Wassef: Ink, Grit, and Resilience: 23 Years of Reinventing Bookselling in Egypt

Nadia Wassef, Egyptian bookseller and author of 'Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller', kindly accepted our invitation to the RISE Bookselling Conference 2025, where she delivered a brilliant keynote speech. She has agreed …
gravatar
 · 
May 7, 2025
Featured Image

Insights from RISE Bookselling Conference 2025

Between 23 and 24 March 2025, over 300 booksellers from 31 countries gathered for the 3rd edition of the RISE Bookselling Conference, organized by the EIBF team, this time in Riga, Latvia. This year’s …
gravatar
 · 
March 31, 2025
Featured Image

Creating Book World Connections with Edelweiss

At Edelweiss, we know that bookselling is not a solitary endeavor but involves community, conversation, and the building of relationships. We are proud to offer services to booksellers that open and sustain these connections …
gravatar
 · 
March 5, 2025
Featured Image

Insights from Irish Book Trade Conference 2023

At end of February, the RISE Bookselling team travelled to Cork, Ireland to attend the Irish Book Trade annual conference. Accompanied by a delegation of 10 international booksellers from the RISE Bookselling project’s support …
gravatar
 · 
June 7, 2023
Featured Image

International booksellers join UK & Ireland’s Booksellers Association Conference

October was a busy month for the RISE Bookselling team: after having brought 5 booksellers to the Frankfurt Book Fair, we invited 7 selected international booksellers to join us at the UK & Ireland’s …
gravatar
 · 
November 9, 2022
Featured Image

Experiencing the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time

Five booksellers from Europe and New Zealand got to experience the Frankfurt Book Fair for the first time Through the RISE Bookselling programme, booksellers Federico Lang, (Librería Luces, Málaga, Spain and representative of CEGAL), …
gravatar
 · 
October 27, 2022