Another successful RISE Bookselling conference organized by EIBF

Last week, EIBF Policy Officer, Tora Åsling, attended and contributed to the programme of the Bookselling as Resistance conference, hosted by the Booksellers Research Network (BRN) at the University of Münster, Germany 10–12 September.

George Sorin Pop, from Romania’s largest bookshop chain Cărturești, travelled to Slovakia to visit Knihy Brezno, a small independent bookshop in the town of Brezno as part of the RISE booksellers exchange programme. Get inspired by his story and apply for the new round of bookseller exchanges before 20 August!

Founded in 2000, EURead is a consortium of European reading promotion organisations who believe that reading is a prerequisite for full participation in today’s media-led and culturally diverse society. Last month, EIBF, who is a proud member of EURead since 2024, joined the EURead General Assembly and Open Forum, held in Brussels. The event also marked 25 years of EURead’s work in promoting reading across Europe. To commemorate this anniversary, we asked Daan Beeke, from the Dutch reading promotion organisation Stichting Lezen and one of the key figures behind EURead, to tell us EURead’s story in this guest blog.