Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany)

The frankfurt Book Fair is a meeting place for the book industry's professionals-be they publisher, booksellers, agent, film producers, or authors, that is held each year in October. It is the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licenses worldwide. There are more than 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries, 299,000 visitors and over 10,000 journalists. The history of the Frankfurt Book Fair dates back to the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg first invented the mechanical movable type printing in Frankfurt. In the next two centuries, Frankfurt remained the central and undisputed European book fair city. In 1949, that early Frankfurt book fair tradition was given a new lease of life : 205 German exhibitors assembled on September 18-23 in Frankfurt's Paulskirche for the first post-War book fair. And almost 60 trade-fair years later, the Frankfurt Book Fair has become the largest of its kind in the world- and the hallmark for global activities in the field of culture. references: c&sMagazine