The British Council supports all sectors of the book and media industries in their relationships with potential overseas clients, customers and partners. We use Britain's skills and resources to respond to local educational needs and to stimulate opportunities for UK-based publishing. We choose only British books and media for inclusion in exhibitions. When we select products for exhibitions and book fairs, we use the most comprehensive databases currently available. Whenever possible, we invite a subject expert to vet our specialist selections.
Publishers often provide promotional copies of their publications for exhibitions overseas.
After use we present these to appropriate local institutions or add them to the British Council's library stock. When we use exhibition lists as a basis for materials procurement within aid project funding, we advertise this in the national trade press and news services. We do not revise lists of titles which publishers themselves may submit for provision under such projects. Clients may, however, appoint their own specialists to produce a final selection. We release overseas market intelligence to the national trade press and all trade bodies in an open and equal way.