At this morning’s opening press conference, Frankfurt Book Fair director Juergen Boos said, “The book sector follows its own rules, even in the face of the international financial crisis. This has been demonstrated by a survey of the heads of German publishing houses, which the Book Fair recently carried out in cooperation with the magazine buchreport. Although there were almost as many pessimists as optimists among the respondents, the majority opinion was that the business situation for publishers would remain consistent.” The biggest growth at this year’s show comes, not surprisingly, in the Digital Market Place in Hall 4.2, which […]