Publishing Perspectives

Juergen Boos, Director of @buchmesse.de kicked off the packed #BISG “Doing Rights Right” event at Goethe Institut NY by reminding the rights professionals in the audience that, no matter the challenges in the world, their work is all about building relationships.

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“Women in publishing are often doing the job before they have the title,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO of Copyright Clearance Center, illustrating “The Invisible Women of Publishing” on the PublisHer panel of the same name #fbm25

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Keith Bennie of The Toronto International Film Festival keynotes the #FrankfurtRightsMeeting focusing on how stories travel and more about the film market (including all moving image storytelling - XR, streaming, etc) #fbm25

Writer Nora Haddada illustrates the benefits of being a Gen Z writer in a time when “shit is really going down” in the political climate, polarization, silencing of voices. “Authors have nothing to lose anyway - especially our generation…we have more to win than to lose.” #fbm25

Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Ines Bachor interviews two members of the Frankfurt Global Network - Vanina Colagiovanni and Mehar Anaokar - about why it is important to be at #fbm25 - there are 14 fellows and both note they are learning a lot about different markets and growing their networks.

Juergen Boos @buchmesse opens #fbm25 at the press conference highlighting the importance of giving a platform to all voices both on panels with Frankfurt Calling and in rights deals.