Professional Programme
Professional Programme
The Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 was back with a wide-ranging programme for international trade visitors. The International Booksellers & Trade Visitors Centre focused on children’s and teenage books, the International Library Centre presented digitisation projects.
For your information, you can still download the programme 2008 for trade visitors.
Children’s and teenage books were key focus in the International Booksellers & Trade Visitors Centre in 2008. There was, for example, a seminar with information on developments in the children’s and teenage book market and on marketing opportunities for the future. As an event for international booksellers, the seminar was in English and has been organised in cooperation with the European and International Booksellers Federation (EBF / IBF). There was also a rights seminar on rights trade in children’s and teenager literature.
The popular "Business Breakfasts" were also back in the International Booksellers & Trade Visitors Centre. They provided information on international publishing markets and were intended for publishers who can both pick up on trends and at the same time, pave the way here for business deals. The book markets of Croatia and China has been introduced this year. China will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2009.
"Teatimes" were scheduled for a little later in the day. These offered a relaxing atmosphere for international publishers to find out about the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF). In 2007, the Frankfurt Book Fair joined forces with the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage to set up KITAB (Arabic for "book"), the company that organises the international book fair on the Gulf.
A second "Teatime" focused on the German Book Office (GBO) in New Delhi. The new Frankfurt Book Fair office began its work in February 2008 and operates locally as a permanent contact broker for the German book industry on the growth market of India.
This year’s guided tours "Ways around the Frankfurt Book Fair" took visitors to exhibitors and providers with ranges and products relating to the subject areas of children’s and teenage books, picture books, reading promotion activities and audiobooks. The tours set off from the International Booksellers & Trade Visitors Centre (hall 4.0 G1337) and could be joined by booksellers, publishers as well as journalists.
The exhibition " une image à mon image " showed works from illustrators of the newly established illustrators’ organisation "Le Grill" from Alsace. With an abundance of narrative forms and original graphic techniques, the exhibition revealed the unique picture worlds and personalities of illustrators.
The digitisation projects under way at the Frankfurt am Main University Library were introduced in the course of daily special interest events in the International Library Centre (ILC). Under the heading "Noah’s Ark of Remembrance" and in cooperation with the Judaica department at the library, the Frankfurt Book Fair presened unique digitisation projects for Jewish studies in the German-speaking world. The databases gave specialists direct access to research material such as Yiddish prints, Jewish periodicals and a Judaica collection.
On the Saturday and Sunday mornings at the fair, there was also an event for the general public looking into Jewish cultural heritage. The Frankfurt am Main Jewish Museum presented "Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main - Online".
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