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Series:   Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2020

Beth Driscoll  and
Claire Squires
Beth Driscoll
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Claire Squires
Affiliation:
University of Stirling

Summary

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the Element are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.
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Frankfurt Book Fairpublishingbestsellersmarketingbuzzbook culturesUllapoolism
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Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
Online ISBN: 9781108933377
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 22 October 2020

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