Alison T - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press https://cambridgeblog.org The Official Blog of Cambridge University Press Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:39:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Four busy days https://cambridgeblog.org/2013/10/frankfurt-book-fair-2013-four-busy-days/ Sat, 12 Oct 2013 08:47:00 +0000 http://www.cambridgeblog.org/?p=14387 Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: It's day four, and Alison looks back at this year's attendance at the Fair.

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It’s day four of the Frankfurt Book Fair – Saturday; local book and publishing enthusiasts, students and families fill the aisles, replacing the thousands of international trade visitors, who’ve conducted multiple meetings across the vast Frankfurt Book Fair Messe site.

The past three days have been very busy here at our stand (Hall 8, stand C1!). Familiar faces have been arriving at the reception to meet and discuss business, close deals and catch up with our Press Sales colleagues, including the Rights Sales Team, who have clocked up around 140 meetings.

Days have been starting at around 8.15am for Gemma and I on the Press reception, in readiness for the Fair’s opening time of 9.00am. We’ve have a constant stream of people requesting information and as a result, we are very intimate with Hall 8.0 (the English-speaking publishing Hall) so much so, that neither of us have yet to go outside to the explore what’s happening with fiction, other Education and Science, Technology, and Medicine exhibitors and we quite fancy the art books, stationery and gifts; We’ve promised ourselves that we’ll do that tomorrow.

Alison T (left) with Gemma Valpy on the Cambridge University Press stand, Frankfurt Book Fair 2013.

Alison T (left) with Gemma Valpy on the Cambridge University Press stand, Frankfurt Book Fair 2013.

Most enquiries have been straightforward, although our listening skills have sometimes been challenged and we’ve had a few interesting requests. Today an Albanian visitor asked if he could have a photograph of the Cambridge stand and insisted I join him in the photograph!

The Fair continues until tomorrow, and as the last few people leave the Fair, one hears the sound of packaging tape ring out across the exhibition halls, the contractors pull up the aisles carpets and within 24 hours, the vast hanger-like spaces are empty once more.

Cambridge University Press stand amongst others at Frankfurt Book Fair

Cambridge University Press stand is located amongst the other English-speaking publisher’s in Hall 8.

Thank you to everyone who came along to meet with us, or just to say a quick ‘hello’. We’ll see you again in April at the London Book Fair!

 

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2013: Day One https://cambridgeblog.org/2013/10/frankfurt-book-fair-2013-buchmesse-cambridge/ Wed, 09 Oct 2013 07:30:00 +0000 http://www.cambridgeblog.org/?p=14388 Cambridge University Press' Alison Thomson reports from our stand on Day One of the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair.

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After several months of planning and our Cambridge University Press stand now built, it’s day one and I’m ready to welcome customers, colleagues, publishing professionals and visitors from guest country, Brazil to the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair.

It’s here, over five days, in which global key decisions-makers from the book, creative and technology industries gather and it’s also the number one trading platform for rights and licenses too.

..the Fair has it’s own police station, hairdresser, flower shop, fire brigade, supermarket and doctor

It’s my third Frankfurt Book Fair and I still find the scale of this event incredible. For five days, a multi-faceted community of publishing professionals descend on the Frankfurter Buchmesse in what can only be described as a self-contained mini town. Here are a few facts and figures to give you an idea of how big it really is:

  • There’s around 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries
  • Last year there were 281,753 visitors from 141 countries
  • 9,000 journalists from over 60 countries reported from the Fair
  • There are 6 exhibition halls and hall 4 has 3 levels

But it’s perhaps the Fairground shuttle bus needed to transport visitors from Hall to Hall, or that the Fair has it’s own police station, hairdresser, flower shop, fire brigade, supermarket and doctor which really demonstrates the enormous scale of the Book Fair.

In three days, the enormous, empty warehouse-sized buildings are rapidly transformed by a plethora of skilled stand constructors, electricians and plumbers, into six well-defined halls hosting a variety of offerings, from Science, Technology and Medicine (STM), Academic and Education publishers, Children’s and Young Adult Media, Art, Literature, Non-Fiction, Rights and Licenses and even a Gourmet Gallery with a show kitchen! Our stand is located in Hall 8 (we’re at stand C1 – we’d love to meet you!), a central venue for the English-language market.

A forklift truck delivers furniture and books in a crate.

The scene from yesterday – more furniture and books are carefully delivered by forklift.

 

We have a great location here in Hall 8 (on the West wall), where our Cambridge University Press logo can easily be seen above the surrounding stands. This year, we will be highlighting some of our digital products, including many of our successful apps, along with recently published books: Rudyard Kipling, 100 Poems, Old and New and The Letters of Ernest Hemingway – vol 2.

It’s a long day and week ahead, but there’s such a buzz, time will fly….

 

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