Frankfurt pulls in only 60% of its pre-Covid traffic as economic realities of the New Normal hit home
No question in-person trade events have a future, and will continue to be important for the...
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Category: Germany
Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair will be in-person just 2 weeks after the expected peak in covid-19 cases
With Germany just having passed 10 million cases, and averaging over 200,000 new cases per day, it...
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Hedge-fund owned RBMedia launches in German-language audiobook markets
One should not be too surprised if KKR sells RBMedia Verlag and its imprints to Storytel in...
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Frankfurt puts a brave face on the Pandemic Edition, but the low turnout does not augur well for LBF and Bologna as Covid-19 resurges
Against such a background we should look at Frankfurt this week, with its 15 publishers in a...
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Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry
The growing evidence, one and a half years into the Pandemic, is that publishers prosper just fine...
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SAGA Egmont is now Germany’s largest audiobook publisher
“Untapped potential for authors and publishers.” That’s the sweet spot where digital and global...
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Frankfurt Book Fair October 2021 will be hybrid this year as expected. Meanwhile London, June, leaves us guessing
With the continuing uncertainty about what will and will not be legally permitted in England by...
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Germany’s Leipzig Book Fair to be digital this year
For global publishing the new normal is yet to fully emerge, but we can be certain we’ll see...
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The Frankfurt Book Fair “will be increasingly supplemented by digital and virtual formats.” But why did it take a pandemic to make it happen?
The Buchmesse largely paid lip-service to the digital alternative while holding out hope the...
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Germany’s Bookwire acquires readbox in a “value-generating collaboration”
“’Value-generating collaborations’ are the defining keywords of our time”...
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Bookwire: ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts do not cannibalise, but act in a “mutually reinforcing manner”
Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts have become mainstream. Ebooks, audiobooks and podcasts are...
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“’#fakefurt’ risks becoming just a moment that over time becomes a season and then a continuum” – Philip Jones, The Bookseller, on the digital Buchmesse
We should also be clear that the virtual Frankfurt is no fake, but rather the new reality. Even if...
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