The opening press conference set the stage for this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, as German Publishers & Booksellers Association chair Karin Schmidt-Friderichs framed tech companies as antithetical to the book fair, “where imagination gives rise to ideas that can change our reality and our future.” “In the virtual world, however, only a few billionaires increasingly decide which algorithms present which kind of information, and they do not follow any rules of a press law, nor on the basis of acquired or remunerated content, and they do not take responsibility for the content they publish or withhold, she said. “Under the […]
