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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Advice for Using AI? Make It Boring
AI is a powerful tool, writes 'PW' senior international and bookselling editor Ed Nawotka. But the one thing AI is worst at is exactly the one thing the publishing industry is best at: storytelling.
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Hachette Team Attends Its First Ken Follett ‘Summit’ in Frankfurt
Set for a September 23, 2025 publication, Follett’s 'Circle of Days' is one of the first big worldwide English-language acquisitions Hachette made under its new structure, and hopes are high the book will be yet another major bestseller for the author.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: PW Talks with Hachette CEO David Shelley
In January, David Shelley took on a new role for Hachette, as CEO of an English-language management structure that united Hachette U.K. and the Hachette Book Group in the U.S. Ahead of the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair, 'PW' caught up with Shelley to talk about his expanded role, and to get his take on the state of global publishing.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Rights Action Off to a Hot Start as the Frankfurt Book Fair Prepares for Kick Off
Ahead of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, Scribner preempts Portia Elan’s debut novel, S&S takes English-language rights to Naomi Ishiguro's Japanese folklore–inspired fantasy series, and Inklore signs a 12-book deal with James Tynion IV.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: "No Bots at the Book Fair"
The opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair featured fair director Juergen Boos extolling the inclusive, democratic values of the fair.
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After Return to Hachette, Reagan Arthur Signs First Deal for Elisa Faison Debut
'Skin Contact' is the first acquisition in what will be "a close partnership" between Arthur's imprint and Hachette UK's Sceptre, made just before the start of the 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024: Rights Listings from U.S. Agencies
At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, Patti Callahan Henry, Rob Franklin, Amy Tan, and many more in a bustling LitAg.
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Italy Unveils Program for 2024 Frankfurt Book Fair
As the fair's guest of honor, Italy will be represented by more than 100 authors and speakers at this year's fair, as part of a robust programming slate programming with the theme 'Roots in the Future.' Italy was previously the guest of honor at Frankfurt in 1988.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Amid a World in Turmoil, Publishers Get Down to Business
Despite the state of world affairs, business appeared brisk, and the fair seemed to continue to bounce back from the pandemic, reporting 105,000 trade visitors from 130 countries.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Looking Forward to the London Book Fair
As the 75th Frankfurt Book Fair opens for business, London Book Fair director Gareth Rapley is already looking forward to the 2024 edition of that fair, which will take place next year between March 12 and 14.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Literary Scout Q&A: Bettina Schrewe
Bettina Schrewe, who worked for eight years as the foreign rights director at Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich before moving to New York in 1995 to start Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting, on trends to watch out for at Frankfurt and more.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: The AI Future Looks Bright—So Long As...
Over the last year, every corner of the book business has been confronted with the colossal innovation in the generative capability of new artificial intelligence tools—with little known as to how it will impact our sector.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Culture Vouchers in Europe
Over the past years, several European countries have launched publicly funded culture vouchers to introduce teenagers and young adults to their countries’ unique and rich cultural scenes—and support cultural and creative industries in the process.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Brazil's Skeelo Looks to Go Global
Skeelo, from Brazil, is ready to go international. The digital reading app, which launched in 2019, is already the third most popular reading app in Brazil.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: POD: The Future of Publishing
Francis Bennett, founder of Marble Hill Publishers, discusses the value of print-on-demand publishing services for small publishers.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2023: Book Aid International Creates a Generation of Readers
Emma Taylor, head of communications at Book Aid International, on how the charity works to share the power of books and create a more equal world.
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