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Provinces of Neverland – the story industry meets at StoryDrive
Photo Credit: Stefan von den Driesch When StoryDrive started up this morning, they leapt straight to fourth gear, with opening speaker Jonathan Gottschall. The two-day conference is the first and one...
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A Passion for Publishing
As the trade days of the Book Fair draw to a close this afternoon, it’s a good time to reflect back on the many events and discussions that have taken place this week. There have been many, covering...
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Hello, Reader!—How Independent Literary Publishers are Successfully Reaching...
Gentle Reader, Those of you who already know me know that I’ll moderate a panel at the drop of a hat. I think I may even moderate panels in my sleep on occasion (I call this sleep-paneling). I’ve even...
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An alternative Who’s Who – a tour of Hall stereotypes.
Well at the Forum, you’re bound to run into some kind of ridiculously attractive, possibly scantily clad New Zealand performer. Just a short trip on those fun horizontal escalators and you’ll find...
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Where the Whiskey, Like Poetry, Flowed
Gentle Reader, The secret to doing business in Frankfurt?Riky Stock, Director of the German Book office, suggested that to really say we’re here, the CLMP posse host a booth reception at Frankfurt. We...
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You Say Tomato, I say Tomaat
Gentle Reader, I returned to the Salon Weltempfang, Centre for Politics, Literature and Translation, over in Hall 5, for a panel discussion called “Travel Agencies for Literature: International...
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State of the arts: An art critic’s first time at the book fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair is coming to a close today. This was my very first time here. When I arrived on October 10, I was immediately overwhelmed at the fair’s sheer size, its scope, the hundreds and...
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Frankfurt 2012: Digital and mobile continue to grow
There’s one abiding image from Frankfurt 2012 for me: the double-decker Kobo stand, towering over HarperCollins. Although the print giant is active digitally – of course it is – it was hard not to see...
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Refreshing Day 1 at the Delhi World Book Fair!
The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy and as I stepped out of the subway, the rain came slowly and doggedly pouring down, welcoming us on the first day...
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PUBLISHERS TRAINING PROGRAMMES 2013 AT IIM AHMEDABAD
Do you wish to go back to university? If yes, then GBO has something to offer – PUBLISHERS TRAINING PROGRAMMES 2013, at IIM AHMEDABAD. In its third edition, it is a unique training initiative that...
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Publishers more relaxed as digital matures
Fewer people walking the floors but a calmer, much more positive feeling among publishers would sum up the mood as the week ended in the Messe. “I think people were getting very excited about the...
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Happy 15th Birthday, GBO NYC!
The German Book Office was founded 15 years ago in late 1998 by the Frankfurt Book Fair with funding from the European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan, and with support from the...
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WHEN A STORY GOES DIGITAL – A JOURNEY. The Transmedia Storytelling...
Transmedia Masterclass: Ralph Mollers August 26, 2014 Transmedia Storytelling Masterclass, JUMPSTART Ralph Mollers is a big name in the publishing industry and his workshop this morning proved exactly...
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In Memory of Kezban Akcali
I met a funny and loveable Turkish literary agent last year at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Kezban Akcali. She suggested an idea to me: A LitAg for smokers in front of Hall 6.0, where I met her...
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The future belongs to “The Heroic Crowd”– Interview with Alexander Bard
Alexander Bard – Cyber philisopher, music producer and author. Keynote Speaker at Frankfurt StoryDrive. What exactly is a cyber philosopher? To start with, philosophy is the art of constructing new...
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Creativity vs. Big Data? An Interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is professor of Internet Governance at Oxford Universirty and also a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. In...
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“Many of our students actually are Holdens”– Interview with Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin, Italy, in 1958 and is one of Italy’s most acclaimed novelists. Baricco debuted as a novelist with “Castelli di rabbia” (translated as “Lands of Glass”) in 1991 and...
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Back at Frankfurt, or Fight for Your Rights
Greetings from the House of Job! Due to a slipped disc, I’m not writing to you from the Frankfurt Book Fair as planned. I thought I’d be reporting to you in particular about the nine American literary...
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Education Conference – East meets West: Innovative Education 2014
Yoo Jeong-bok On 17 and 18 December 2014, under the motto “East meets West”, an international conference on innovative education will take place in the Korean city of Incheon. Discussions will...
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