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Frankfurt 2010 Briefcase, Part II
Last week, we covered what rights the major U.S. agencies will be selling at next month's Frankfurt Book Fair. Below are the big books the largest U.S. trade houses will be shopping.
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Frankfurt Preview: Agency Briefcase
What will the American agents be pushing in the rights tent at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair? In this week's PW we lay out all the big books the agencies will be selling rights for in Germany, highlighting titles from John Grisham, Ken Follett, David Bowie, and Jon Stewart, among many others.
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Frankfurt 2010: The Agency Briefcase
What will the American agents be pushing in the rights tent? Among this year's offerings are Martin Amis's "most ferocious antihero," Nelson Mandela's journals, John Grisham's latest Confession, David Bowie's stuff, Jon Stewart's guide to Earth (and Earthlings), and Ken Follett's Giants.
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Frankfurt 2010: Will Frankfurt Soon Be an E-Book Fair?
The writing has been on the digital wall for some time, but with new initiatives and a noticeable emphasis on e-books, the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair is embracing the digital future. From a Storydrive program, a schedule of panels that seeks to break down barriers between books, games, films and other media, to to the the launch of the Frankfurt SPARKS initiative, organizers are are making an effort to "unite the worlds of publishing, technology industries, media and the Internet culture in order to develop collective viable business models," said Juergen Boos, director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and to pioneer a role "as a content and media fair."



