Frankfurt’s News Conference Unveils Shocking Insights Amid Rising Global Tensions
Juergen Boos: ‘The Power of Dialogue Across All Borders’
In a news conference at Frankfurt’s Evangelische Akademie this morning (September 16), Frankfurter Buchmesse‘s (October 15 to 19) organizers have announced various programs and features new to the world’s largest trade show in book publishing.
In its 77th iteration, the weeklong event is a complicated meld of programming—both for the world book publishing industry’s professionals and for the interested public, which joins the events on the weekend—and actual trade. The show’s Literary Agents and Scouts Center (LitAg), again this year completely sold out, is the “beating heart” of the show, the place in which translation and publication rights are bought and sold across national and linguistic frontiers.
Last year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse drew some 115,000 trade visitors from 153 countries (professionals in the book business), that number swelling to 230,000 total attendees when combined with the visits of the general public. More than 4,300 exhibitors were seen on the floors of the big show’s many halls, as the show’s programming staged more than 3,300 events in five days. The LitAg rights-trading floor sold out at 593 tables booked by 320 agencies from 31 countries. Visitors to the LitAg and Publishers’ Rights Center exceeded 38,000 colleagues.
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