Two Panel-discussions were held during the Tbilisi Book Days, on November 28-29  supported by the Georgian National Book Center. Panel-discussion was hosted by the 
participants from the international and the local publishing networks: Tobias Voss (Vice President International Markets, Frankfurt Book Fair), Oliver Bolanz (Board member of Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association, publishing director of the publishing house Christoph Merian), Iris Schwanck (Director of FILI-Finnish Literature Exchange), Olga Zhuk (Curator of International Arsenal Book Festival and head of publishing department at Art Arsenal), Herwig Bitschie (Publisher, NordSüd Publishing, Zurich), Junko Yokota (Jury member of the Caldecott Award, Presidium Member of Nami Island Award), Birgit Fricke (In charge of international children’s books and illustrators at the Frankfurt Book Fair), Otar Karalashvili (Founder and Chairman of the Book Art Center Tbilisi) and Medea Metreveli (Director of Georgian National Book Center).

The main topics of the discussion were as follows:

• Georgia as a guest of honor at Frankfurt Book Fair in 2018  
• How to prepare for the International Book Fairs
• Strategies of developing the Childrens Book Illustration
• Relevance between local and international Book Market