International - buchcontact

« Murielle Rousseau et son équipe travaillent avec le charme d’une Française et l’efficacité d’une Allemande. »
Edouard Cointreau, Gourmand International

B_CONTACT

BUCH CONTACT is a press agency primarily specialised in public relations. B_CONTACT is the international department of the agency. We provide the “missing link” that will connect you to the market whether you are publishers, authors, cultural institutions, book fairs, museums or exhibition organisers. We can promote any kind of products in the book market from art books, audio books, and ebooks to apps, non-books, etc.

Founded in 1995 in Hamburg, Germany, BUCH CONTACT has evolved from a one-person company to a well-respected agency for public relations with offices in Berlin and Freiburg. The team around the two managing directors Murielle Rousseau and Ulrike Plessow is equipped with knowledge in the fields of arts and books, the publishing industry, public relations and the media industry. Our staff at B_CONTACT speaks German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. Both of our directors are bilingual: Murielle Rousseau is a native speaker of French and German and Ulrike Plessow speaks German and English fluently.

Our activities

Our clients are publishers, authors, media, cultural institutions such as international, national or regional book fairs, museums, and literary prizes. Our job is to conciliate between our customers and the public / the market respectively. From classical press work (print and online), different kinds of events (press conferences, book presentations, book launches, lecture tours, press trips, book-signings, etc.) to extraordinary PR solutions, we make sure your products and topics are seen in the right places at the right time. Further more we will create all kinds of texts that you may ask for (newsletters, press releases, press statements or information, press kits, biographies, testimonials etc.). We are internationally active and experienced in working with customers from all over the world. Having worked for international events such as the London Book Fair, the Paris and Beijing Cookbook Fair and the Gourmand Cookbook Awards our experience and attention to detail runs through all levels of the publishing industry. Established publishers like the Oxford University Press and the Plough Publishing House form part of our client base.

Our speciality: Public relations

We work like an outsourced public relations department and spread your topics, books or products via the media (daily, specialized, and weekly press, (news) magazines, radio, television, free journalists or press agencies). For a successful PR strategy, we operate with individual distribution lists, mailings and e-mailings, previews and other brochures. Our in-depth knowledge of the industry plus our long-standing relationships with national and international media representatives makes BUCH CONTACT ideally placed to deliver your topics, books or products to succeed. We therefore travel every month to meet publishers, authors, journalists and promoters as well as to supervise events we organize.
We oversee our contacts with the help of our database “Eddy” including more than 40.000 national and international contacts, all categorized. We keep records of every single contact with booksellers, publishers and other promoters.
By having all the relevant contacts, practical knowledge and insider know-how regarding the book and art market, our campaigns for publishers, authors or book fairs are tightly focused on influencing the right people and stimulating the media’s interest.