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Frankfurt 2013: Frankfurt Adapts and Grows
Over the 35 years since its introduction, the rights trade conducted at Frankfurt has become the backbone of the international publishing world, generating buzz and more than a few million-dollar blockbuster deals.
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With CONTEC, Frankfurt Embraces Life After TOC
For the past four years, Tools of Change has been a popular kickoff to the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Dohle to be Featured on Frankfurt Panel
Markus Dohle, CEO of newly merged Penguin Random House, will be the sole guest speaker at this year’s CEO forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Indonesia Will be Frankfurt Focus Country in '15
The Frankfurt Book Fair announced that Indonesia will be its guest of honor country in 2015. Brazil is the honor country this fall with the focus on Finland in 2014.
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Connections, Chance, and Content Deck the Halls
Last year, students in the master’s program in Publishing: Digital and Print Media, at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, were volunteers at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair—and shared their thoughts with Publishers Weekly.
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Graphic Novels, Digital Comics Go Global At the Frankfurt Book Fair
From the stands of Diamond Book Distributors, DC Comics and Abrams in Hall 8 to featured exhibitors like Comixology and New Zealand cartoonists Dylan Horrocks, Colin Wilson and Roger Langridge, comics are visible and active throughout the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt 2012: Making the Digital Leap
At the beginning of a standing-room-only Frankfurt Book Fair discussion, Richard Mollet, CEO of the U.K. Publishers Association, said he imagined there was a day 100 or more years ago at a book fair when, after yet another panel on how electricity was going to revolutionize the business, an attendee thought: enough already with the electricity talk.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Metadata: The Whack-A-Mole of Book Discoverability
In a brisk and entertaining exchange, Brian O’Leary, principal at Megallen Media Consulting, and Laura Dawson, product manager at R.R. Bowker Identifiers, managed to make metadata, the descriptive information underlying and identifying digital content, not only a bit more comprehensible, but downright interesting.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 3, October 12, 2012
Read the complete day 3 Frankfurt Book Fiar Show Daily and keep up with all the goings-on at the Fair.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: CLMP, U.S. Indie Presses Go Global
This year CLMP is sponsoring an independent publisher’s booth at the Frankfurt Book fair that includes indie presses like Akashic Books and Archipelago, indie houses experienced in coming to Frankfurt and buying and selling rights, and many others—Siglio, Bellevue Press, Fence and Red Hen—who have never attended.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Global Prospects for E-books Bright
At the “Global 50” CEO panel at the Frankfurt Book Fair Wednesday executives from some of the world’s major digital and retail platforms delivered the message that e-books are a global game-changer for the book business.
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Big Books in Frankfurt: A French Novel, More Erotica and Nuclear Warheads Create Buzz
A literary French novel and, just possibly, a new E.L. James, were headlining conversations at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 2, October 10, 2013
Stay up to date with all the latest show news with the PW Frankfurt Show Daily.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 2, October 11, 2012
Read the complete Day 2 Frankfurt Book Fair Show Daily here.
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Vasconcelos e Sá Opening New Portuguese Publishing House
Portuguese publisher Alexandre Vasconcelos e Sá is opening a new house in his native country called Divina Comédia (which translates, in English, to Divine Comedy).
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Pictures From the Show
Photos from Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 and Tools of Change Frankfurt.
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Busy Kobo To Acquire Aquafadas, Raise Self-pub Royalty and More
After launching a self-publishing platform this summer, e-book retailer Kobo has enlarged its publishing portfolio again after agreeing to acquire Aquafadas, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to easily and economically build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers without using a programmer.
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Frankfurt 2012: CEO Panel Discusses 'Lessons Learned' From Digital
After years of talking about what the digital future might hold, a CEO panel at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair instead took a look back at the last decade of change.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 1, October 10, 2012
Read the complete Day 1 Frankfurt Show Daily here.
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BookShout Addition Lets Readers Import E-Books from Any Platform
BookShout, a social reading and book retail application, is introducing new technology that will allow its users to legally import their previous and future e-book purchases into their BookShout account, free of charge, no matter where they were purchased.
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