Frankfurt Book Fair 2010: Worlds Largest Book Fair Opens

by NowPublic Staff | October 5, 2010 at 03:27 pm

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2010: Digital Media Drawing The Buzz In Frankfurt

Frankfurt Book Fair 2010 Dates: Oct. 6 - 10th
Frankfurt Book Fair 2010 Location: Congress Center of Messe Frankfurt / CMF, room "Harmonie"
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The 62nd Frankfurt book fair opened officially Tuesday with over 7,500 exhibitors from a 111 countries.

And even though digital and multi media books account for a fraction of the over all market for books it is the hot topic in Frankfurt.

Gottfried Honnefelder, president of the German publishers and booksellers association which organises the fair, said only about one percent of the 9.6-billion-euro German book market was currently made up by digital offerings.

However, he said he could see the market rising to 10 percent in the near future.

To highlight the growing importance of the digital and multimedia sectors, the fair will host a separate section -- "Frankfurt Hot Spots" -- devoted to the new technologies taking the book world by storm.

Apparently, Ken Follett the best selling author will debut a multi media version of his hit The Pillars of The Earth.