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Frankfurt's sea of parties
Frankfurt Book Fair does seem to create business and build networks – especially after 5 o’clock, when bottles start appearing, and the fair becomes a sea of little parties, to which anybody and everybody is invited, reports the Times.
More than anything, though, this a market-place for rights: publishers are here to sell foreign rights for their books, perhaps picking up a couple of promising titles for themselves at the same time; and literary agents are here to do what they always do: sell their clients’ works for the highest price possible, to as many different people as possible.
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