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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Clio Books Offers an AI Solution for Reluctant Writers
The new publishing company combines AI-generated prompts with human creativity and editing, aiming to help authors—particularly busy professionals—transform their ideas into submission-ready manuscripts.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Karine Pansa Prepares for the Future
The outgoing IPA president reflects on her two-year tenure and her new project promoting reading in Latin America.
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Ingram Content Group Unveils New Book-to-Screen Rights Database
MediaScout aims to connect film and television industry professionals with books available for screen adaptation, explained Margaret Hepp Harrison, VP of digital services at Ingram Content Group, who is leading the project. The service made its debut at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Karp, McIntosh, Shelley Take the Stage
Publishing executives are rarely far from the podium at the Frankfurt Book Fair, but this year, things looked a bit different: Simon & Schuster was joined onstage by its new owner, Hachette in the U.S. and U.K. was represented by just one CEO, and the former head of Penguin Random House U.S. extolled the virtues of disrupting the publishing model.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Advice for Using AI? Make It Boring
AI is a powerful tool, writes 'PW' senior international and bookselling editor Ed Nawotka. But the one thing AI is worst at is exactly the one thing the publishing industry is best at: storytelling.
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Hachette Team Attends Its First Ken Follett ‘Summit’ in Frankfurt
Set for a September 23, 2025 publication, Follett’s 'Circle of Days' is one of the first big worldwide English-language acquisitions Hachette made under its new structure, and hopes are high the book will be yet another major bestseller for the author.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: PW Talks with Hachette CEO David Shelley
In January, David Shelley took on a new role for Hachette, as CEO of an English-language management structure that united Hachette U.K. and the Hachette Book Group in the U.S. Ahead of the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair, 'PW' caught up with Shelley to talk about his expanded role, and to get his take on the state of global publishing.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Rights Action Off to a Hot Start as the Frankfurt Book Fair Prepares for Kick Off
Ahead of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, Scribner preempts Portia Elan’s debut novel, S&S takes English-language rights to Naomi Ishiguro's Japanese folklore–inspired fantasy series, and Inklore signs a 12-book deal with James Tynion IV.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: "No Bots at the Book Fair"
The opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair featured fair director Juergen Boos extolling the inclusive, democratic values of the fair.
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After Return to Hachette, Reagan Arthur Signs First Deal for Elisa Faison Debut
'Skin Contact' is the first acquisition in what will be "a close partnership" between Arthur's imprint and Hachette UK's Sceptre, made just before the start of the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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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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