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#fbm26: 7-11 Oct 2026

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Lisa Hinchcliffe, Founder and Principal Librarian in the Loop, voiced her concerns about trust and ethics at The Scholarly Kitchen Live session earlier. ‘Researchers are compromising the ethics of their own profession’, she said #fbm26

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Top hacks to kick off the day at ‘The Future Skills for Publishing Professionals’ panel with Nigel Newton, Suzanne Collier and Sarah Arbuthnot. AI and what’s required to succeed dominated the conversation #fbm26

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Pulitzer Prize winning author Jill
Lepore discusses the future and the role of AI: ‘Our thoughts and our words - and our books - are our own’ And our consent to, or refusal of, any system of government must come from us.’ #fbm26

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Juergen Boos, Director of Frankfurter Buchmesse, addresses The Opening Conference: ‘Freedom to publish determines which stories can still be published today, which perspectives reach people, and which conversations a society has.’ #fbm26

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The Opening Press Conference of the 78th Frankfurter Buchmesse is about to begin #fbm26 Our speakers are: Juergen Boos, Sebastian Guggoltz and US bestselling author Jill Lepore.

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Rights Selling in a Changing Landscape is the topic for today's #FRM26. Are we obsessing too much about the entertainment business? Should the books industry just stay in its lane? Great chat about the impact of social media, kids' diminishing attention spans and the demand for shorter books.

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One of the most insightful sessions of the day at #ipgac was an overview of the audio market given by Videl Bar-Kar and Mariana Feged of Bookwire + Matt Sweet of @elevenlabs.io ‘It’s a cultural imperative to put audio front and centre’ said Bar-Kar. The huge growth in the sector continues.

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Today we’re at #ipgac and we are delighted to be a sponsor of this amazingly supportive event. So good to see a packed theatre and so many friends and colleagues. The indie publishing industry seems to be thriving! 🙌

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Marie-Pierre Gracedieu is the CEO and Founder of Le Bruit du Monde, a very select and focussed list. She explains that they publish only 12 titles a year, and just 6 books in translation. This allows them to put their energy into books they really believe in. It's very different to 25 years ago.

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Our next speaker at the FRM is Simon Philippe Turcut of literary publisher Editions La Peuplade who is based in Quebec, Canada. They are one of the only companies there who are publishing books in translation from around the world. They sell books directly to the French market.

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Today at the Frankfurt Rights Meeting we are focussing on France. Literary agent Pauline Cuchet gives a great overview of the French market: big groups buying up smaller companies, the Fixed Book Price is still important, print runs down and still a thriving independent market. Here are some stats 👇

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In its 40th anniversary year, we kicked off this afternoon's Frankfurt Rights Meeting with a discussion about #AI and its impact on the rights business.

2 Key takeaways: most copyright laws still protect human creativity; and AI is useful but there will always be a need for the human in the loop.