The Bologna Global Rights Exchange (GRE) is open to Publishers, Literary Agents, Scouts, Licensees, Licensors, Developers, Licensing Agencies, Audio-visual Producers, Promotion and Services.
Bologna Global Rights Exchange
Welcome to the 5th Edition of the newly updated Bologna Global Rights Exchange
Following the success of the Bologna Global Rights Exchange, dedicated exclusively to international rights, distribution, licensing and content.
GRE has made a number of improvements. For instance, the platform can now be used all year round for meetings and easy access to other rights and licensing professionals.
Introduced in 2020, GRE provides a rights trading opportunity for the general trade audience across the global publishing industry. This is possible thanks to the partnership with BolognaBookPlus, which runs parallel to Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
Features include:
- The Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids Directory: Launched in 2021, BLTF/Kids is the part of our website solely dedicated to licensing and to keep you up to date with what is available. It also includes a search criteria to browse through specific brands.
- BBPlus extends its reach via GRE to offer rights trading opportunities across general trade publishers and agents.
- GRE now hosts its very own blog looking at international industry news, key trends, and interviews. Recommendations are always welcome!
- GRE now allows live-streamed content to be played through the GRE platform.
Other features include:
- Improved search function that specifically targets the children’s book market and allows users to find content by subject, topic, age, profession, collective stand name and more.
- An easy-to-use automated process or to upload titles, covers and pdf files either individually or in bulk (for exhibitors only).
- Identify titles to highlight key titles on the publisher’s profile (for exhibitors only).
- Upload your rights catalogue or create custom digital catalogues showcasing titles of interest by genre, bestseller, target age, etc. (for exhibitors only).
- Improved messaging system to connect with buyers and sellers.
- Accessible dashboard to manage titles, meetings and messages.
