The books market in Italy has “deteriorated significantly” in 2011 and the first nine months of 2012, with bricks and mortar retailers being hit the hardest, according to the Associazione Italiana Editori’s (AIE) report on the state of publishing in Italy.

AIE chair Marco Polillo presented the report at Frankfurt...

Hodder is planning to revamp the novels of Erich Segal, whose first book, Love Story, was made into an iconic film in 1970 starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw.

The author died in January 2010.

Hodder publisher Carolyn Mays bought British and Commonwealth rights in Segal’s eight books from Andrew Nurnberg, with...

As we reached the outskirts of Frankfurt, I turned to my left—my stalker fan girl Milly Keen (junior agent from the über-hot Drummonds Agency) had nodded off. Looking down at her folder I could see her itinerary: she was booked into the Neil Blair suite at the Frankfurter Hof. Blimey.

Suddenly my austerity room at the two-star...

A new global book classification system that aims to reduce cross-border confusion about subject codes and drive international sales was launched yesterday (10th October) at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Industry representatives from 16 countries have joined Thema, the project that will create the new standard to categorise and classify...