A place for memories and for the future: libraries
From digital archives to virtual content: the innovative sector of libraries and information studies in the spotlight at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
From digital archives to virtual content - as a sector steeped in innovation, libraries and information sciences have an important role to play at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The ILC has become a well established permanent fixture as a work centre for registered agents, librarians, publishers, information specialists and service providers from the book industry.
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The book trade in the 21st century
The book trade in the 21st century is about far more than bookselling.
The way book trade professionals operate the market in the age of digitisation, the way they change it and foster interchange, will depend on how the media continue to develop. The book trade is about much more now than trade in books. The Frankfurt Book Fair takes account of these changes, with numerous activities and professional programmes aimed at supporting the industry.
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Business not as usual? Events on rights and licences
In the age of digitisation, rights trade is becoming more and more complex. We offer interesting events on the topic of rights and licences, for both beginners and the experts.
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important business platform for international trade in rights and licences. Every year, rights professionals from all over the world meet up in the Literary Agents & Scouts Centre (LitAg) in Hall 6.2 to buy and sell promising titles. But rights trade has changed over recent years as digitisation increases across the entire book and media industry. Crossmedia marketing is coming more and more to the fore: a book becomes a film, a computer game, an e-book - it is a matter of increasingly having to represent the digital product rights as well.
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Fascination Comics
The future beckons, as the comics industry reinvents itself
Comics are, by their very nature, crossmedial products. These stories told in pictures combine elements of art, pop and literature to form a new and separate genre. For comics, the jump into other media seems inevitable: comics become films, films become games and the games turn up again as apps. For many years comics have been among the most crossmedial products in the book and media industry.
To lend physical emphasis to the relationship between comics, film and games, and the new digital forms of content use, this year the Comics Centre is in a new location, directly next to the Hot Spot Kids & Comics. The collective events stage serves as a bridge between the tried-and-tested and all things new.
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Education for the Future
The internationally structured key focus Education for the Future in 2006.
In the globalised knowledge society, education has an increasingly crucial role to play. "Education for the Future" presents the trends on this both important and exciting sector. Join the discussions and presentations at the Educational Publishing Pavilion, the Education Hot Spot or at the Forum Education. We invite you to join the debate on the what and how of knowledge facilitation - during the Fair itself and beyond.
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Digitisation
Film & Media
Film & Media Forum
With the motto Frankfurt StoryDrive - where content knows no boundaries, the international media and entertainment world met up for the first time in the Film & Media Forum in 2010.
Digitisation is blurring the boundaries between the media. New business models, new partnerships and new narrative formats are emerging. Trans-, cross- or multimedia is the name of the game - and that includes in the Film & Media Forum at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Headlined “Frankfurt StoryDrive - where content knows no boundaries”, a meeting-place is provided in the Film & Media Forum for the media and entertainment world: for representatives from the publishing and film industries, for experts from the music and games industries, from technology and social media, for cybercitizens, creative originators and heavy users.
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Story Drive Conference
Frankfurt StoryDrive: the Conference for the media and entertainment industry
StoryDrive 2010 - the Conference brought together players from the media and entertainment industries for know-how transfer and networking.
One thing is certain: business with contents is changing - as are its protagonists and their public. But what does the future of storytelling look like? How will you still be able to reach your public? And when is that public willing to pay?
StoryDrive 2010 - the Conference was a first ever opportunity for dialogue across the industries, looking at business models, projects, experiences. The aim was to forge links between the industries, ensuring the optimum use of synergetic impacts and of shared potential.
StoryDrive Conference
Film & Media Rights
The StoryDrive BusinessCentre
The StoryDrive Business Centre in hall 6.0 is the first organised platform for the crossmedia rights and cooperation business.
In conjunction with the two-day Frankfurt StoryDrive Conference, the Business Centre provides media and entertainment professionals with the opportunity to present projects as well as negotiate financing, rights or merchandising deals with potential partners from the publishing, film and games industries. This multi-sector collaboration is backed by targeted matching and networking services, as well as special events. There is also the possibility to rent booths for the presentation of your company or services.
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Further topics
There is a great variety of topics featured at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
More than 3000 events, exhibitors from more than 100 countries, countless new releases and more topics than you might imagine.
On these pages you find some of the topics specially focused on. Apart from the focus on education there are many more topics that are worth a look or two. . .
- Antiquarian Books
- Book Markets
- Digitisation
- Illustration
- Children's & Juvenile Books
- Fiction & Non-Fiction
- Art
- International Dialogue
Calendar Exhibition
The calendar exhibition in the foyer of Hall 4.1 has been and will be a huge drawing point of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Divided into 22 subject groups, the calendar exhibition shows more than 1,300 calendars from over 100 German-language publishing companies.
Centre for Business & Specialist Media
The market place for specialist information and a meeting point for the B2B trade – in Hall 4.2 you’ll find all you need to know about business and specialist media.
The periodicals exhibition presents a wide range of both printed and online specialist periodicals, arranged thematically.
Visitors receive expert advice and may order sample copies of periodicals directly at the stand.
You can also carry out research using the online platform of the periodicals information service (Zeitschriften-Informations-Service – ZIS). leinheit unter dem eigenen Verlagsnamen präsentieren.
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Gourmet Gallery
The place for culinary indulgence at the Frankfurt Book Fair – an innovative platform devoted to food and drink.
The Gourmet Gallery offers broad scope for events and exhibition formats to promote books, magazines, media, culinary products and decorative items. It is the perfect exhibition space for:
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- Cook book or culinary reference book publishers
- Publishers in the food sector
- Publishers of history and art books with a focus on fine food and enjoyment
- Publishers of hotel and restaurant literature
- Food magazines
- Digital initiatives in the cook book sector
- Digitale Initiativen im Bereich Kochbuch
- Wine makers, wine making associations and wine merchants
- Producers and suppliers of other culinary products
Listening instead of reading
Take advantage of the opportunity to present your new audiobook productions on the collective stand specifically designed for them in Hall 4.1!
This option is available to suppliers from the German-speaking area.
It's the sound of music ....
Music publishers introduce themselves and their selections on the Music Collective Stand in Hall 3.1.
On the Music Collective Stand, trade visitors can pick up tips on how to present sheet music and music literature in bookshops and can find out about sources of supply.
The many different musical presentations will demonstrate that it really is the sound of music on the Music Collective Stand.
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Collective Stand Nonbook 4.0 - Marketplace for Stationery & Gifts
Stationery and gifts for the book trade, presented at the meeting place for decision makers.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, business partners in this field meet in Hall 4.0, the competence centre for the book trade and publishers.
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