The Autumn Letters festival is setting up a Book Sunday on the first floor of the Olympe-de-Gouges Theater today. And for Books too, there are local producers! Indeed, the Association of Publishers of the Occitanie Region (ERO), which brings together 70 publishers from Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées, is invited to join the independent bookstores La Femme Renard and Le Bateau Livre, set up during the fortnight in the grand foyer of the Théâtre Olympe de Gouges.
The ERO defends biblio-diversity and local independent literary productions and represents 15,000 authors from varied worlds. The book industry in Occitanie brings together 3,759 operators, represents more than 11,400 jobs and 137 million euros per year. It becomes the second region (excluding Île-de-France) for the weight of the cultural sector in total employment. That of the book is particularly dense and diverse, dynamic although fragile.
This meeting takes place from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will allow us to discover the wealth of these publishing houses, the gems that they defend, and to make them visible to the large publishing groups. You can extend these discoveries by chatting at the festival bistro with the editors present. At 2 p.m., a round table “In search of elsewhere” will particularly highlight three of them around travel diaries: the Réciproques editions directed by Geneviève André-Acquier which publishes precious works accessible to all, at publisher's account in a limited number of numbered and signed copies, Plan B éditions with Jean-François Galletout and Arassasiez with Baptiste Dericquebourg.
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