Registration and Information for the 2010 Frankfurt International Book Fair
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Some of the Books We Are Currently Offering
Kenneth Knight's A Special Theory of Relativity to Be Published in the Spanish Language
The Magdalene Mandala to Appear in Bulgarian
New Young Adult Fiction, Philosophy Translations
Russians To Publish Australian Business Book
Becoming What You Want to See in the World Published in Spanish
Interview with South African Publishing Director Kerneels Breytenbach
The Rights Center At BookExpo America: An Interview with Ladislav Senkyrik
Stephen Wolinsky’s Work Begins to Appear in Czech
New Spanish Language Edition of Briefs for Building Better Brands
Pustak Mahal Begins to Publish the Works of Roger Fritz in India
We've Got to Start Meeting Like This
Germans Publish 50 Ways to Read Your Lover
New Age Books - New Delhi, India
Japanese License Rights to Empowered by Empathy / Germans Buy Manuscript
Czechs Buy Rights to Journeying, Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet
Volvox Globator Buys Czech Rights to Biography of The Real Winnie The Pooh
Oesch Verlag acquires Anne Seagraves' Daughters of the American West.
About Book Fairs...
Book fairs provide a common meeting ground for publishers, editors, writers and distributors.
Book fairs date at least to 1455 when Gutenberg sold copies of his famous Bible at an event in Frankfurt. Historians usually date the first actual Frankfurt book fair to 1480.
At book fairs, book professionals and their representatives, such as International Titles, sell and buy translation rights to publish books in languages different from the original edition. International Titles, for example, can help you sell the rights to your English language book to publishers worldwide. In that case, your book will appear in the languages of the buying publishers. Contracts for translation rights include payment in advance of publication and royalties after your book.
Wholesalers and distributors also offer contracts at book fairs. They want to sell your original English language books in other countries where English is widely read. At each fair, International Titles also obtains a large number of these contracts for our registered publishers.
Other book professionals such as journalists (12,275 from 92 countries received accreditation to the 2004 Frankfurt fair), booksellers, book club directors, reviewers, film producers, publicists, and librarians also find book fairs extremely useful. Overall, there were more than 200,000 book trade visitors at Frankfurt last year (2007).
Turkey will be the special guest country for the 2008 Frankfurt Fair.
Every book fair where you have your title offers you many opportunities other than contracts for direct sales of your books.
Book professionals, International Titles included, sell and buy year-round. There is a strong agreement in the industry worldwide, however, that meeting face to face is indispensable to the book business.
We build trust with people we meet fair after fair and year after year. And no matter how effective printed or electronic publicity for a book may be, there is no substitute for a potential buyer actually holding it in his or her hands and reading in it.
Book fairs are also an effective ways to sell older and back listed titles. While a title may have been fairly dormant for a few years, it takes on a new life when seen for the first time by buyers on an international fair stand.
Book fairs vary enormously in size and scope.
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest in the world, nearly 7,000 exhibitors occupy more than six separate buildings, some of which have two and three exhibit floors. By comparison, BookExpo America usually has 2,000 exhibitors occupying a single floor
From time to time, International Titles markets at other book fairs as well. We have marketed for our clients at fairs in Taipei, Australia, Bogotá, Bologna, Warsaw and Prague as well as annually at London, BookExpo America and Frankfurt.
As you may imagine, it is quite expensive for an individual or a small publisher to market his or her own books at any of these book fairs.
In addition to the costs of travel, an individual or company must lease floor space for a stand. The stand must then be furnished with tables, chairs, shelving, carpet and storage facilities. Lighting and electricity must be paid for as well. Display and marketing materials must be shipped.
With the U.S. dollar currently weak against other major world currencies in which local costs must be paid, selling from a stand of your own at a fair is even more expensive.
To make the many benefits that book fairs offer you affordable, International Titles has offered cooperative marketing to publishers and writers since the 1980s.
For a fraction of the cost of renting your own stand and support facilities, we marketing your book fully and professionally at each book fair we attend.
Even if you come to a fair yourself, we can save you the costs and hassles of hiring a stand of your own. Based on our own experiences in working fairs, we know that we can save you a considerable amount of money if you decide to come and follow our advice about how to reduce your personal costs.
Information about registering for our current marketing package and what we do for you can be found elsewhere on our web page.
We are also in the process of adding a number of articles with information we think will help you sell more effectively in markets outside the United States.
If you have any questions about any aspect of our work, please email Loris at loris@internationaltitles.com.