AIT Organizes U.S.A. Pavilion at Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) 2012

PR-1204E | Date: 01/30/2012

The 2012 U.S.A. Pavilion of the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), organized by the American Institute in Taiwan, will feature more than 2,000 U.S.-origin titles and highlight American technology in the areas of digital content development, on-line publishing platform, and book rights promotion. TIBE will be held from February 1-6, 2012 at Taipei World Trade Center.  

The book fair will be the Taiwan debut of PubMatch, the leading comprehensive worldwide publishing rights network services and platform.  PubMatch’s global rights network facilitates the needs of the publishers, agents and authors in Taiwan.   American Collective Stand, representing 46 U.S. publishers, will introduce their 242 titles available for future publishing in Taiwan.  Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, will showcase thousands of children’s titles, educational books and web-based products.  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will also promote hundreds of K-12 educational books at the show.  Flysheet will represent 13 American digital content providers, featuring web-based 2D and stereographic 3D interactive science educational content, web-based learning content, eJournals, eLibraries, archives and other digital databases.

AIT is pleased to invite four special guests from the United States to speak at various seminars during TIBE 2012.  Scholastic, Teacher Created Materials, Creative Teaching Press and Benchmark Education will hold discounted book promotions on February 4 and 5 at the U.S.A. Pavilion.

U.S.A. Pavilion VIP Guests:

George Slowik Jr.
President of Publishers Weekly

Janet Fritsch
President of American Collective Stand

Jon Malinowski
President of PubMatch and President of Combined Book Exhibit

Linda Warfel
Vice President of Education and Trade, Scholastic Asia - Asia Pacific

On behalf of this year’s U.S.A. Pavilion exhibitors and VIP guests, AIT’s Commercial Section welcomes all Taiwan publishers, literary agents, schools, libraries, research institutes, book importers, and book stores to visit the U.S.A. Pavilion (A628) and explore the best selling and award winning titles on display. 

For more information about the U.S.A. Pavilion, VIP introduction, activities and to see a comprehensive list of participants and titles, please visit AIT Commercial Section’s publishing website at

http://www.buyusa.gov/taiwan/industrysectors/publications/index.asp.