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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Rights Listings from U.S. Agencies
At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, Patti Callahan Henry, Rob Franklin, Amy Tan, and many more in a bustling LitAg.
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Italy Unveils Program for 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair
As the fair's guest of honor, Italy will be represented by more than 100 authors and speakers at this year's fair, as part of a robust programming slate programming with the theme 'Roots in the Future.' Italy was previously the guest of honor at Frankfurt in 1988.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Amid a World in Turmoil, Publishers Get Down to Business
Despite the state of world affairs, business appeared brisk, and the fair seemed to continue to bounce back from the pandemic, reporting 105,000 trade visitors from 130 countries.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Looking Forward to the London Book Fair
As the 75th Frankfurt Book Fair opens for business, London Book Fair director Gareth Rapley is already looking forward to the 2024 edition of that fair, which will take place next year between March 12 and 14.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Literary Scout Q&A: Bettina Schrewe
Bettina Schrewe, who worked for eight years as the foreign rights director at Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich before moving to New York in 1995 to start Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting, on trends to watch out for at Frankfurt and more.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: The AI Future Looks Bright—So Long As...
Over the last year, every corner of the book business has been confronted with the colossal innovation in the generative capability of new artificial intelligence tools—with little known as to how it will impact our sector.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Culture Vouchers in Europe
Over the past years, several European countries have launched publicly funded culture vouchers to introduce teenagers and young adults to their countries’ unique and rich cultural scenes—and support cultural and creative industries in the process.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Brazil's Skeelo Looks to Go Global
Skeelo, from Brazil, is ready to go international. The digital reading app, which launched in 2019, is already the third most popular reading app in Brazil.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: POD: The Future of Publishing
Francis Bennett, founder of Marble Hill Publishers, discusses the value of print-on-demand publishing services for small publishers.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Book Aid International Creates a Generation of Readers
Emma Taylor, head of communications at Book Aid International, on how the charity works to share the power of books and create a more equal world.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: The Steady Rise of Women in Translation
In 2023, far more readers, critics, editors, and booksellers are interested in works in translation. But the disparity between the number of men being published and reviewed versus the number of women receiving equal treatment remains.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Agent Q&A: Dorothy Vincent
Dorothy Vincent, who has served as director of foreign rights at a trio of powerful agencies—Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Trident Media Group, and Creative Artists Agency—on trends to watch out for in Frankfurt this year and more.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Honoring the 2023 Selfies Book Award Winners
Launched by 'BookBrunch' in 2018, the Selfies Book Awards recognize the increasing professionalism shown by indie authors who choose to self-publish their own work in three categories: adult fiction, children’s books, and general nonfiction.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: A New Rights Fair for Nairobi
The 24th Nairobi International Book Fair, which took place September–October 1 at the Sarit Expo Center in Nairobi, Kenya, inaugurated the first-ever international rights fair to be held in East Africa.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Self-Publishing's Ongoing Evolution
The CEO of StreetLib.com explains how author-publishers are reacting to current publishing trends.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Boozy Hikes Make for Brilliant Books
Myriam Sauter, an editor at Switzerland's Helvetiq, tells the tale of how a company that was once a tiny games publisher has grown into a global books and games publisher—thanks in no small part to a series of books on hiking while drinking.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Panels Take on AI, Sustainability in Publishing
With geopolitics still looming large over the fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair professional program got down to business on October 19, including at a pair of panels addressing two key concerns for the publishing industry: the rise of AI and sustainability.