Overview

• The 77th Frankfurter Buchmesse opened on October 14 and runs through October 19, with more than 1,000 authors, around 4,000 publishers and well over 200,000 visitors expected.
• Industry leaders call for stricter liability, fair remuneration and stronger copyright enforcement for AI systems and platforms concentrating information power.
• Organisers confirm that some invited writers from the Philippines declined to attend in protest against Germany’s stance on the Gaza conflict.
• The fair expands public access with a fully open Friday, book sales permitted from day one, and the Festhalle repurposed as a large “Meet the Author” area.
• Economic strains shadow the sector, with consolidation among small literary houses and printing bottlenecks that have left Dorothee Elmiger’s Deutscher Buchpreis-winning novel temporarily unavailable.