The Frankfurt Book Fair is an international book exhibition held in Germany. It was founded by the German Book Industry Association in 1949. It is held in Frankfurt from the first Wednesday to the second Monday of October every year for 6 days. The purpose of the exhibition is to allow any publishing company in the world to display any book. The annual Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest publishing industry exhibition. Since 1976, it has set up a guest country.
The main function of the book fair is to promote copyright trade. Data shows that the copyright transactions reached at the book fair accounted for more than 75% of the world's total annual copyright transactions. On the one hand, the copyright manager of the publishing agency came to negotiate and purchase the copyright of foreign or translated versions, and on the other hand, it was a large number of literary agents. People looking for overseas publishing companies. In addition, at 2 pm the day before the official opening of each book fair, an "International Copyright Managers Conference" will be held to discuss in-depth issues related to copyright trade.
Every year, more than 100 countries, more than 7,000 publishers and booksellers, and more than 300,000 new varieties will participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair. The book fair has become the world's largest and most important book trade center, a grand event in the world book industry, and it is also known as the "world cultural vane"! The Frankfurt Book Fair is now also the main medium for the Chinese book publishing industry to export copyrights. This is the second consecutive year that the Chinese publishing industry has exported more than 2,000 copyrights at the world's largest book fair for two consecutive years since it was the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2009.