The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

by Claire Squires and Beth Driscoll

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017-2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108928102
• ISBN13: 9781108928106
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.0"