Tag: Book market
Before the book fair in Frankfurt: farewell to continuous paper
The energy crisis is also turning the publishing industry upside down. Do books have to become more expensive and should the state intervene? A visit to the bookmakers of the…
Culture in Munich: A portrait of literary agent Lianne Kolf – Munich
If anyone knows the book industry and Munich society, it’s Lianne Kolf. As the first literary agent for German-speaking authors, she brokered thousands of works with millions of copies –…
How #Booktok on Tiktok is changing popular literature – culture
By Eva Goldbach and John Korsche Vanessa is proud of her books. Meter by meter, she shows her collection to her more than 65,000 followers on Tiktok. Your “Bookshelf Tour”…
Reading series in the old cinema: stories from far and near – Ebersberg
Under the title “Literature on Thursday”, the Altes Kino Ebersberg is inviting four authors to moderated readings this spring. The Munich writer Peter Probst will kick things off this Thursday…
Lack of raw materials in the culture industry – culture
Not only the construction industry, but also publishers and record companies are struggling with hitherto unknown problems: seemingly endless delivery times, rapidly increasing raw material prices, bottlenecks. For some, the…
Cancellation of the Leipzig Book Fair: a rejection of the East – culture
The day after the cancellation, you can reach Oliver Zille, head of the Leipzig Book Fair, in his office, where he says the not so boring sentence over the phone…
Leipzig Book Fair 2022 canceled due to corona pandemic
“The cancellation of the Leipzig Book Fair is a heavy blow for the industry. The fair would have been very important for the book and everyone who lives for it…
Scandal books and the consequences: The price is hot
What happens when publishers find good sales and a neat scandal better than thorough editing. .source site
Book market sales are growing – culture
The German book market developed well in 2021 despite Corona. This emerges from preliminary figures published by the German book trade association on Thursday in Frankfurt. Sales for the most…
Legend of the Book Market: A History of the Penguin Paperback – Culture
There are stories that are too good to be true, but this is it: Terry Waite negotiated the release of Western hostages in the 1980s as plenipotentiary for the Archbishop…