Is the Buchmesse feeling the heat from other book fairs?
Both events were, from conception, fatally flawed – book fairs run for profit by outsiders, for an industry the organisers never fully understood or cared about.
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Category: Germany
Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone unveils exclusive packages for publishers as SIBF comes of age
No wonder then that Sharjah has been able to, from the early stages of publishing’s digital...
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BookRix and StreetLib join forces to drive innovation in the book publishing industry
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib...
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Buchmesse ’23 promises to be the best yet. Sharjah looms. The US and UK need to up their game to stay relevant
Sharjah is unlike anything publishing has ever witnessed before. A city-state that emerged from...
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Germany’s Thalia buys into Austria’s self-pub start-up Storylution. “A new age of book creation”?
The comparison with the music industry is bewildering. The 2020s music industry is not driven by...
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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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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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