Frankfurt 2018: crime, ‘uplit’ and ‘big ideas’ books in demand
Australian publishers who attended this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair (10-14 October) reported emerging trends around crime fiction and thrillers, ‘uplit’ and popular science books. Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams...
Frankfurt sends delegates to gamescon in Cologne
Frankfurt Book Fair’s (FBF) StoryDrive conference will send delegates to the computer-game trade fair gamescon in Cologne in August, FBF said in a statement. Ten representatives of international publishing houses and literary agencies...
Mrva-Montoya wins international publishing scholarship to University of St Gallen
Sydney University Press production coordinator Agata Mrva-Montoya has won a scholarship to attend the International Publishing Management course at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland in early September. Mrva-Montoya...
‘As energetic and optimistic as ever’: Australians report successful Frankfurt Book Fair
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair ended on Sunday 14 October with organisers reporting 281,753 visitors over the five days of the fair, which featured...
Frankfurt 2012 opens, spotlight on New Zealand
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair opens today, with New Zealand this year’s Guest of Honour. Forty-eight exhibitors from Australia are participating, with the Australian...
New writers’ residency in Frankfurt
New Zealand authors Hamish Clayton and Tina Makereti will take up new writing residencies offered by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt in September, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Clayton and Makereti...
Forthcoming events
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Frankfurt Book Fair 10 - 14 OctoberCAL's Publishers' Career Development grants deadline 12 OctoberRedact Workshop...
In brief
Spotlight abandons AWAsNational fabric retailer Spotlight has announced that it will negotiate a new collective agreement with its 6500 employees rather than deal with the complex WorkChoices laws. Spotlight CEO Simon...
South Africa to build on Cape Town success
There was a special focus on South Africa today, with a breakfast briefing on the South African book trade and the Frankfurt Book Fair-sponsored Cape Town Book Fair (which took...
Response to Cape Town Book Fair ‘overwhelming’
Response to the inaugural Cape Town Book Fair (CTBF) has exceeded expectations, with what fair director Vanessa Badroodien called ‘overwhelming support from the public and trade visitors.'‘None of us could...
Beware of Construct Data
Publishers and distributors that visit the Frankfurt or London Book Fairs are again warned to beware of correspondence from Austrian-based company Construct Data Verlag AG. WBN has received a letter...