Around 276,000 visitors attend Frankfurt Book Fair 2013 - October 14, 2013
The Frankfurt Book Fair closed on October 13 with around 7,300 exhibitors in total, from over 100 countries. Altogether 275,342 visitors attended the Fair (October 9 – 13), of which 142,921 were present during the trade visitors' days. Apart from the Brazilian authors calling for… Read More
Econtent takes centre stage on day 3 of the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 11, 2013
Apart from the weary faces and tired feet around the halls of this truly International event, the buzz and talk on the 3rd day of the Frankfurt Book Fair is all about making econtent much more attractive, accessible and a good revenue stream for all types… Read More
Serials Solutions’ Summon Service to index content from three key international publishers - October 10, 2013
Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business, announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that it will work with three key international publishers - Minha Biblioteca, Universitetsforlaget AS and Boom uitgevers Den Haag - to index their content in the Summon discovery service. Researchers around the world will benefit… Read More
Discovery and the user journey to e-content takes centre stage on day 2 of the Frankfurt Book Fair - October 10, 2013
The theme of discovering and the user journey to e-content continues to be a hot topic at the on-going Frankfurt Book Fair. Various hot spot sessions discussed this and the impact it would make on publishers e-content. In the hotspot sessions around the exhibition some very… Read More
World Scientific Publishing to preserve e-books with Portico - October 9, 2013
Digital preservation specialist Portico has announced that World Scientific Publishing has entered into an agreement to preserve its e-books. World Scientific Publishing has preserved its e-journals with Portico since 2010. Portico is a digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and other scholarly e-content. The Portico… Read More
Frankfurt Book Fair begins - October 9, 2013
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair kicked off October 9, 2013. About 7,300 exhibitors from 100 countries are attending the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Calling on publishers to use “Tarzan” Economics to swing to the new vine, Jim Griffen of Onehouse LLC delivered the keynote… Read More
