A fair that offers the opportunity to explore the wide and polyphonic range of independent publishing practices: fanzines, visual arts publications, photo books, independent magazines, art monographs, poetry, research and critical discourse, and other unique publishing experiments. There will also be exhibitions and initiatives aimed at information and interactivity on the new wave of art editions and their interaction with other expressive media that complement them, such as sound, performance, poetry, experimental music and radio arts. The Italian exhibition ‘Out Of The Grid’ will be presented as part of the fair. It presents a selection of 100 Italian fanzines covering the period from 1978 to 2006 and touching on a wide range of social, political, aesthetic and technological changes in independent publishing, reflecting the evolution of Italian society, in particular youth culture, during the ‘post-movement’ and ‘pre-internet 3.0’ era. The exhibition is realised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute Athens. This year, Athens Art Book Fair is also hosting SPRINT Art Book Fair (Italy), which, together with four other independent festivals, namely MIGRA Art Book Fair (Argentina), Sit and Read Art Book Fair (Romania) and Pagemasters (UK), aims to empower and give visibility to the local art scene and create space for practices that do not easily penetrate the public sphere.