Frankfurt Book Fair
…starts today:
The annual Frankfurt book fair, the world’s largest, begins Oct. 3 and will focus on the flourishing literary scene in India, this year’s guest of honor country, as well as the rise of the Internet as a challenge to the printed word. About 70 of India’s most successful writers, including Amitav Ghosh and Kiran Desai, are scheduled to present their work at the fiveday event, which is expected to draw nearly 300,000 visitors to see some 7,000 exhibitors from 111 countries, Agence France-Presse reported. This year’s event will also focus on the boom in electronic publishing, and Google Inc. is expected to be in the spotlight, since its efforts to make extracts of every book printed available online have prompted concerns with authors and publishers over copyright.
For our many European readers, I hope you get a chance to go!
