As some of you may know, I’m a publishing student in the University of Buenos Aires. Since the career was celebrating its 20th Anniversary, they organized a series of Conferences (Jornada Académica de Edición) yesterday in the Buenos Aires International Book Fair (that takes place between April and May every year). 

Since we were invited to attend before the Fair actually started, I sneaked through the stands to take some pictures of Hunger Games’ publisher in Argentina: Del Nuevo Extremo, before they opened. They had gigantographies of the movie around the structure:

One was hanging close to the cealing, it was pretty impressive

The books had its own structure, with the new edition of the movie poster cover as a sign

There’s a plastic above because the fair hadn’t started yet and what I was doing of sneaking around wasn’t allowed.

All the shop assistants were wearing a Mockingjay pin and since I had mine, they asked me about it. Since I’m working on a YA project this semester, me and my classmate had to ask some stuff to companies that work with YA and I asked the assistants about the pins. It seems the publisher gave each one of them the pin for free to use in the fair and they can take it home afterwards. Nice job, isn’t it?

The assistant also told me that he had seen Tributes with their pins around since the fair started, and when I moved to another stand I corroborated it myself. I was stopped by a mom and her daughter, who had a mockingjay necklace, and they asked me about my pin. 

In other news, “The Death Cure”, the third book from the Maze Runner trilogy was out THIS WEEK, so I wasn’t expecting to find it in the fair. Because of our project, we had to go to that stand (we made an interview with the publisher that brings Maze Runner to Argentina) and there it was! So, I got it. My sister, my brother and my dad all read the Maze Runner books too, so they were really happy when I go back with it xD

Our covers for Maze Runner are made by an argentinean illustrator (and awesome guy) called Marcelo Orsi Blanco who has a DeviantART account you can check out [x]

I also bought Cecelia Ahern’s “Girl in the Mirror”

And a couple of Ouran mangas. 

The best book I saw (but I couldn’t buy…yet) was “The Art of Walt Disney” by Christopher Finch in the stand of Paragrafica. I was there checking Mark Ryden books and looking for a Tara McPherson one and the assistand showed me a compillation book with Candy Bird drawings (among others) called “The Garden of Eye Candy” when I saw this huge book with Mickey Mouse on the cover. She brought it down for me to see. It’s perfect. But I didn’t have enough money to buy it. I may go back to the fair though, I’m not sure yet.

The Conferences were interesting, there was some mention of fanfiction which is always a good thing xD I didn’t know how aware these “important” publishing professionals were of fanfiction, but since my teacher liked the idea to include the subject in our YA project, it was good to hear them talking about it. Even if they haven’t got the slightest idea of how serious it is for the fandoms

Anyway, more or less that was my experience yesterday =)

(Source: starberry-cupcake)