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Frankfurt Book Fair 2016: A Lighthouse of Ideas

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Guten Tag and welcome to the Frankfurt Book Fair! MS in Publishing: Digital & Print Media students Lauren Evans, Lainey Mays, and Marie Waine set out to help at the largest book fair in the world ready for a week of books, books, and more books. Every year the fair provides the opportunity for publishers from around the world to meet and mingle while learning about new platforms and gaining insights on upcoming trends. This year, our student volunteers were each assigned a role within the fair, allowing them to interact with a variety of professionals and better understand the industry.

Before volunteer duties at the fair started, the students had a chance to experience the culture of Frankfurt and take a short trip to see more history in Heidelberg. Then it was time to get to work. Below are our students’ takeaways and insights from the front-lines of the book fair:

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Chocolate, Connections, and a Little Controversy

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Photo of Hall 6.0 of the Frankfurt Book Fair
Hall 6.0 of the Frankfurt Book Fair (or Frankfurt Buchmesse) from above.

“It’s massive.” “It’s where everything happens.” “It is the largest book fair in the world.” “There’s a shuttle that gets you from hall to hall.” “It is really big.”  The four NYU MS in Publishing: Digital and Print Media students volunteering at the Frankfurt Book Fair heard plenty of such descriptions in the days leading up to our  trip. When Namrata Das, Mary Moates, Marinda Valenti and I stepped into the Fair’s main hall last week, we totally concurred: the Frankfurter Buchmesse, as the locals know it, is truly gigantic. Over 275,000 visitors were counted; 9,300 journalists reported from the event, which took place in the Messe, a fairgrounds so large it has its own train and subway stations. Making our way through the airport-like moving walkways that connected the halls, we greeted the largest book fair in the world with awe. [Read more…] about Frankfurt Book Fair 2015: Chocolate, Connections, and a Little Controversy

Frankfurt Postscript: The Students Speak

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M.S. in Publishing student volunteers Kathi Gadow (blogger), Brittany Leddy, and Ashley Sepanski sightseeing in Frankfurt.
M.S. in Publishing student volunteers Kathi Gadow (blogger), Brittany Leddy, and Ashley Sepanski sightseeing in Frankfurt.

From interviewing Namibian and Senegalese publishers, to appearing in the pages of Publishing Perspectives’ Show Daily and fielding conference questions onstage, our students found themselves featured at the Frankfurt Book Fair in ways they could only have imagined. The Fair was a great experience for the three M.S. in Publishing: Digital and Print Media students who volunteered there this year, the third time the program has offered this opportunity. Through the support of the Oscar Dystel Research and Development Fund, students Kathi Gadow, Brittany Leddy, and Ashley Sepanski traveled to Germany and experienced firsthand how the largest book fair in the world attracts not only publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and authors, but also artists, screenwriters, movie producers, journalists, translators, gamers, illustrators, multimedia creators… even politicians. [Read more…] about Frankfurt Postscript: The Students Speak