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Sep 16, 2015 frankfurt book fair september 16, 2015 veronica yager cipa signature, industry events forewords trade show staff recently returned from the beijing international book fair, armed with over a hundred leads for the books on display at our indie press collective stand and reports that certain titles received multiple rightstranslation offers. Posted in resources getting published, rights royalties contracts. Frankfurt book fair buchmesse second week in october the worlds largest annual trade show for the book publishing industry is held annually for five days in frankfurt, germany. The frankfurt book fair was officially born in 1949. Since then, it has evolved into the largest publishing industry event in the world foreign rights sales and distribution beyond the shores of america take center stage in here, and each year, over 250,000 publishing professional and. The frankfurt book fair is a meeting place for the industrys experts and the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licences worldwide. Only on the last two days of the fair access for the general public is allowed. Oct 10, 2014 what may be important now is to understand as we leave frankfurt book fair 2014 that keep your head down and your mouth shut that businessasusual bid jones aptly describes may be the.
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