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Hall 1 – just one of a giant campus of exhibition halls of 400,000 metres of floorspace

Green Hill is again at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany or ‘Frankfurt Busch Messe’.

I’m here scouting the industry – it’s always rewarding adding to Green Hill’s expertise and capability. As always indie publishing  or self-publishing isn’t a feature of the Fair. Instead most of the world’s traditional publishers are here: over 4.000 companies/exhibitors from 92 countries  – yes, that’s not a typo. Over the five days there will be almost 250,000 visitors – yes again that’s not a typo. Of the 250,000 there are about 125,000 industry professionals (like me).

What is Green Hill doing here?

We are  constantly adding to our expertise and the Messe is a great way of doing that. Our print broking  division (Fox Merit) has had discussions with many book printers exhibiting here (mainly from China, Korea and Hong Kong) as we endeavour to provide the world’s best print options at value. An important part of the industry is book production technologies. Green Hill already has good capability in this area and it sets us apart from solo graphic designers trying to master book production at a competitive cost to indie authors.

The Messe has returned to its former strength after the Covid pandemic. Everyone is back. All the new tools and technologies are here along with all the traditional publishing giants of the publishing industry. Of course the big feature of the Messe is the trading of foreign language publishing rights. It’s a feeding frenzy – a market place where publishing rights are bought and sold with gusto.

DAVID WALTERS  ~ Business Development Manager