Attendance dips at 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair
Attendance at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) is down for the second year in a row, but only ‘modestly’, reports Publishers Weekly. FBF officials have reported that 140,291 trade visitors...
Survey into mobile ereading shows even split between Apple and Amazon apps among young people
A new survey into mobile phone reading has found that young people are evenly split in their use of Apple or Amazon apps, reports Publishers Weekly. The Publishing Technology survey of 3000 consumers across the...
Samsung ‘Innovation Partner’ at Frankfurt Book Fair
Technology company Samsung is the Innovation Partner at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF), which runs from 8-12 October. The collaboration will ‘highlight the convergence of mobile technology and the...
Frankfurt Book Fair launches competition to promote ‘visibility of the digital’
The Frankfurt Book Fair and German Publishers and Booksellers Association have launched a competition to find ‘practicable, pioneering ideas for the physical presentation of digital publishing products and services, either...
Walton selected for Frankfurt Fellowship Program
Zoe Walton, publisher of children’s and young adult books at Random House Australia, has been selected for the 2014 Frankfurt Fellowship Program, which this year focuses exclusively on those working...
Frankfurt Book Fair relaunches magazine
The Frankfurt Book Fair has relaunched its magazine with ‘a shortened name and a fresh layout’. The Frankfurt Quarterly, previously known as the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly, examines a ‘single focal topic’...
Frankfurt Book Fair announces changes to hall layout
The Frankfurt Book Fair has announced a number of changes to its hall layout, which are designed to put English-language publishers ‘at the heart of the action’, reports the Bookseller....
Dohle on integrating Penguin Random House: ‘We have to get this right’
Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany this week, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle said he is in no rush to fully integrate the Penguin and Random House...
Agata Mrva-Montoya: Highlights from the St Gallen International Publishing Management Course
In September, Sydney University Press publications coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya attended the St Gallen International Publishing Management Course in Switzerland. She shares some of her highlights. Too often in the publishing...
APA launches Frankfurt Book Fair app
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has launched an app for this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. The Australia@FBF app, which was created by the APA’s IT administrator Margaret Sarlej, is available...