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Frankfurt Book Fair 2016: The Markets Summit Spotlights Global Opportunities
Frankfurt’s The Markets: Global Publishing Summit took place on Tuesday, the opening event of the Fair’s premium events program dubbed “The Business Club,” and offered insight into seven publishing markets around the world.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2016: At Opening Event, Change—and Politics—Loom Large
British artist David Hockney spoke at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair opening press conference, while other speakers addressed world events and how literature can help facilitate ways to find answers to important issues.
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Vying to Be the Next 'Gone Girl'
Bucking insider expectations, psychological suspense is still hot in the run-up to the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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In Early Pre-Frankfurt Deals, Two Novels Fetch Big Sums
Although the Frankfurt Book Fair doesn’t get underway until next month, a handful of big deals have already closed. Among the titles gaining early buzz in the run-up to the fair are two novels acquired in six figure deals late last week.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 Preview
New programs and a continued engagement with creative sectors outside of traditional book publishing have expanded the scope of the show, though rights is still at the core.
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The Big Titles U.S. Agencies Will be Selling at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair
Essay collections from Trevor Noah and Gay Talese, the debut novel from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, and a new adult thriller from Stephenie Meyer are among the big titles being shopped at Frankfurt.
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Frankfurt Book Fair Considers an Early Start for Agents
Frankfurt Book Fair officials this week confirmed that talks are underway to possibly open the Frankfurt Book Fair Literary Agents & Scouts Centre (LitAg) at a day earlier in 2016.
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How German Publishers Deal With Amazon
At the opening press conference at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (which ended October 18), Heinrich Riethmüller, the chairman of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, told reporters about the German book industry’s battle to prevent Amazon from “monopolizing” the book business.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: In Surprise, Frankfurt Book Fair Attendance Rises
Despite a sluggish global economy and political turmoil, official attendance for the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair rose modestly over 2014.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Lots of Deals Amid a Sluggish Global Economy
The book world’s largest international event continues to adjust to the times.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Books on the Middle East Crisis Drawing Lots of Interest
The ongoing turmoil in the Middle East along with the refugee crisis there and in Europe has been the source of a clutch of manuscripts on offer at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Another Round of Big Deals
With the Frankfurt Book Fair now well underway, and still no big book in sight, there was another dizzying round of deal-making that has left fair-goers tracking an ever-growing list of books gaining buzz.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: The New, Digital Faces of the Frankfurt Book Fair
For all the talk of e-books, and the state of the book market, the number of new digital startups at the Frankfurt Book Fair is an indicator of the industry's health.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: HarperCollins to Release YA Novel in 16 Languages Next May
As part of the marketing campaign for the new young adult novel by Alyson Noël, 'Unrivaled,' HarperCollins will publish the book simultaneously May 10, 2016 in 16 languages. The novel will feature covers that will be coordinated across the different markets.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: No Big Book Yet, But Plenty of Big Sales
One thing the absence of a big book has meant is that a handful of titles—drawing strong advances from editors in the U.S. and abroad—are being clumped into an ever-growing list of buzzed-about books.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Hachette's Nourry on Publishing's Big Questions
Arnaud Nourry, chairman and chief executive of Hachette Livre, answered questions on hot-button topics like self-publishing, agency pricing, and threats to copyright.
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Four Trends That Will Emerge From the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair
E-book subscription models and cross-sector collaboration will be among the hot topics at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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