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Frankfurt Book Fair opens for business
Oct 6, 2010, 10:23 GMT
Frankfurt - The Frankfurt Book Fair opened for business early Wednesday at the start of a five-day run, with 7,500 exhibitors displaying books to trade buyers from round the globe.
Books themselves are not for sale at the Fair, which was created for book publishing companies to do deals with one another and reach out to the bookselling trade. Some 172,000 square metres of booth space has been sold at the huge fairgrounds.
Last year's event attracted 290,000 people, many of them Germans hoping to catch a glimpse of authors and upcoming books.
The fair was inaugurated at a ceremony on Tuesday evening while carpenters were still completing work erecting the booths.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, as keynote speakers, said they saw plenty of life ahead for the printed book.
Argentina is guest of honour at the fair this year, putting on an extra display about its culture and bringing in young authors to speak.
Publishers continue to be worried about the rapid growth in new-style e-books, fearing they will cut down overall industry turnover because they are generally sold at a lower unit price.
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