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Frankfurt 2009 Roundup: The Distress Over Digital and the Books That Got People Talking

The 2009 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded with a slight dip in overall attendance, tough the number of visitors to the rights center was up. There was lots of discussion about all things digital, though the Europeans and Americans seemed to differ on where things are headed. A few More

Frankfurt Book Fair: Trident's Gottlieb Charges European Publishers with Collusion

In an e-mail sent to publishers in an undisclosed number of European countries right before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Trident chairman Robert Gottlieb charged that publishers have been colluding to keep advances down. European executives dismissed the charging, saying Gottlieb has "gone mad." More

Frankfurt Book Fair: Europeans Play the Moral Rights Card Against Google Settlement

There's been a simmering anti-Google sentiment at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, no doubt connected to European objections to the Google Book Search Settlement. And on Friday that simmer reached a boil, as the deal faced harsh-at times, puzzling-criticism at a registration-required panel on More

Frankfurt Book Fair: Ray Kurzweil Teams with Baker & Taylor on New eReader Software

Baker & Taylor announced a partnership with acclaimed scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, CEO of Kurzweil Technologies, to supply digital content for K-NFB Reading Technology, a newly developed e-book reading software created by Kurzweil in collaboration with the National Federation of More

Frankfurt Book Fair: Friedman Expounds on Open Road Integrated Media

From the Frankfurt Book Fair where she is promoting her new company, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman has added a few more details about her new operation, Open Road Integrated Media. More

Latest Book Deals From the Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt Book Fair: Writers House Announces Simultaneous Six-Country Release of Follett's Next Novel

The first major deal out of this year's Frankfurt Book Fair involves an international laydown of Ken Follett's next novel, Fall of Giants, which will be the first title in Follett's New Century Trilogy. The simultaneous six-country release-set for September 28, 2010-will coincide with the airing of More

Pre- Frankfurt Deals: Two Iowa Writers' M.F.A.s Go at Auction

Closing a five-way auction just before the Frankfurt Book Fair, Brian DeFiore sold North American rights to 26-year-old Benjamin Hale's debut to Cary Goldstein at Twelve. Another Iowa graduate, Anna Keesey, just sold her debut novel, Little Century, at auction, to Courtney Hodell at FSG. More

Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009

Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom-that and more in PW's roundup of the big books More

Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Survey Examines New Business Models

The Frankfurt Book Fair is conducting a survey of what the world's publishers believe will be the business models of the future. More

Frankfurt Book Fair News From Around the Web

JR to publish Meyer biography

JR Books is publishing a biography of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer to coincide with the release of the movie adaptation of her novel New Moon (Atom). Bedazzled by George Beahm will be published on 20th November. More

Literary Diary : Joe Allston

Our literary insider Joe Allston on the Frankfurt Book Fair and the joys of independent bookshop John Sandoe's Christmas catalogue More

Ereaders at Frankfurt Book Fair - a reader's report

I received the following first class report from Rachel who has visited the Book Fair. She checked out the readers on display and this is what she found: Hi More