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Welcome to the Collier International website. Our aim is simple - to facilitate business between book publishers worldwide. Books are never more effective than when published in each country by a local publisher, with all the advantages - sales, marketing, PR and translation - that can bring.

We have wide experience and a strong track record, and represent a number of successful publishers and packagers in the UK, Germany, France and the USA. We cover all aspects of rights and co-edition selling.

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The Futurebook conference last month focused on the digital future and compared to the 2010 conference there was a clearer sense of direction, and belief and optimism that print and digital could work together. A future where publishers will be focused much more directly on the reader. Some see it as a radical change, but from another point of view it's only re-focusing what we do already. If we'd lost our focus on the reader, we've got in back. We're in exciting times.

Chris Collier

January 2012

Highlights 2011/12:

Click on the titles for information sheets and PDF spreads. Rights available as indicated.

The Ultimate Festivals Guide: focuses the most colourful, moving, joyful and spectacular events around the world. 500 festivals features. All rights available.

Kiss Me Cake: celebrating English afternoon teas, picnics and puddings, and introducing a remarkable new cookbook list from inspired German publisher 99Pages. All exc Germany. Also: Baguette, Fleur de Sel, Chestnuts, and more.

WOW: Hand of God, Hand of Man, Buildings: remarkable images from across the globe collected in three spectacular volumes. All exc USA, Can, France, Germany, Slovenia, Serbia, China.

Crazy Gifts: packed with gifts which you’d never have thought of and didn’t know existed. Crazy Gifts, Crazy Design and Crazy Art: all rights available exc USA, UK, ANZ, France. (Also in series: Fashion, Food, High Tech, Love, Pets, Travel.)

Religions of the World: the ultimate 512pp one-volume survey. All rights available.

Ultimate Timelines: the most colourful and inspirational timeline book I’ve ever seen. Published (Sweden, the first we anticipated of many) autumn 2011. All exc Sweden

Shoe Love: a celebration of the shoe, with five amazing pop-ups and other features to boot – beautifully produced, an unbeatable gift. All exc USA, Can, France. (Also Bags To Love, just published.)

Mr & Mrs Smith: boutique hotel guides: the best, no other guides come near. Smith France published 2010, Italy 2011. All exc UK, USA, Can, ANZ, France

Getting religion ...

... that's the subtitle of The Science Book, produced by Delius and published by National Geographic in the USA in autumn 08. We could I guess if we allow ourselves a little licence (for Science read Religion...) apply the same subheading to the next big book from Delius, Religions of the World. As faiths fragment, and yet are held with as much passion as ever, a compendium that tells us what the world believes is much needed.

Both books are wonderfully illustrated, and the kind of reference book that makes you realise just how inadequate the internet is when it comes to making knowledge accessible and, in Delius's inimitable way, eyecatching.