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Graphic Novels, Digital Comics Go Global At the Frankfurt Book Fair
From the stands of Diamond Book Distributors, DC Comics and Abrams in Hall 8 to featured exhibitors like Comixology and New Zealand cartoonists Dylan Horrocks, Colin Wilson and Roger Langridge, comics are visible and active throughout the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Frankfurt 2012: Making the Digital Leap
At the beginning of a standing-room-only Frankfurt Book Fair discussion, Richard Mollet, CEO of the U.K. Publishers Association, said he imagined there was a day 100 or more years ago at a book fair when, after yet another panel on how electricity was going to revolutionize the business, an attendee thought: enough already with the electricity talk.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Metadata: The Whack-A-Mole of Book Discoverability
In a brisk and entertaining exchange, Brian O’Leary, principal at Megallen Media Consulting, and Laura Dawson, product manager at R.R. Bowker Identifiers, managed to make metadata, the descriptive information underlying and identifying digital content, not only a bit more comprehensible, but downright interesting.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 3, October 12, 2012
Read the complete day 3 Frankfurt Book Fiar Show Daily and keep up with all the goings-on at the Fair.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: CLMP, U.S. Indie Presses Go Global
This year CLMP is sponsoring an independent publisher’s booth at the Frankfurt Book fair that includes indie presses like Akashic Books and Archipelago, indie houses experienced in coming to Frankfurt and buying and selling rights, and many others—Siglio, Bellevue Press, Fence and Red Hen—who have never attended.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Global Prospects for E-books Bright
At the “Global 50” CEO panel at the Frankfurt Book Fair Wednesday executives from some of the world’s major digital and retail platforms delivered the message that e-books are a global game-changer for the book business.
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Big Books in Frankfurt: A French Novel, More Erotica and Nuclear Warheads Create Buzz
A literary French novel and, just possibly, a new E.L. James, were headlining conversations at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 2, October 10, 2013
Stay up to date with all the latest show news with the PW Frankfurt Show Daily.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 2, October 11, 2012
Read the complete Day 2 Frankfurt Book Fair Show Daily here.
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Vasconcelos e Sá Opening New Portuguese Publishing House
Portuguese publisher Alexandre Vasconcelos e Sá is opening a new house in his native country called Divina Comédia (which translates, in English, to Divine Comedy).
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: Pictures From the Show
Photos from Frankfurt Book Fair 2012 and Tools of Change Frankfurt.
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Busy Kobo To Acquire Aquafadas, Raise Self-pub Royalty and More
After launching a self-publishing platform this summer, e-book retailer Kobo has enlarged its publishing portfolio again after agreeing to acquire Aquafadas, a digital publishing platform that allows publishers to easily and economically build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers without using a programmer.
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Frankfurt 2012: CEO Panel Discusses 'Lessons Learned' From Digital
After years of talking about what the digital future might hold, a CEO panel at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair instead took a look back at the last decade of change.
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The PW Frankfurt Show Daily: Day 1, October 10, 2012
Read the complete Day 1 Frankfurt Show Daily here.
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BookShout Addition Lets Readers Import E-Books from Any Platform
BookShout, a social reading and book retail application, is introducing new technology that will allow its users to legally import their previous and future e-book purchases into their BookShout account, free of charge, no matter where they were purchased.
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Smartphones, Reading and A New World of Collaborative Writing
Fan fiction is ”one of the fastest growing genres on Wattpad. It's people celebrating what they love.”
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2012: At ToC Frankfurt, Data Shows E-Book Growth and Opportunity
Digital has been a hot topic of conversation at recent Frankfurt Book Fairs, and two data-driven keynotes at the Tools of Change Frankfurt kicked off the 2012 show with yet more evidence of the vast potential digital offers publishers.
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Frankfurt Bookfair 2012: Digital Spotlight
Read our complete Frankfurt Bookfair Digital Spotlight supplement here.
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Reagan Arthur Nabs Buzzed-About Thriller 'The Three'
After a quiet build-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, a book that Reagan Arthur pre-empted has people buzzing.
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E.L. James’s Long Shadow May Linger over Frankfurt
It was the talk of the London Book Fair. Then it was the talk of the summer. Then it became the book news story of the year. The Fifty Shades series—an originally self-published erotica written as Twilight fan fiction—was too new a phenomenon in April, when the London Book Fair was underway, to have any major effect on deals at that industry event. But with Frankfurt weeks away, and the series topping charts around the globe, a flurry of big deals for romance titles (many of them originally self-published) indicate that the Fifty Shades effect will be holding sway over business in Germany.
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