Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurter Buchmesse
Frankfurter Buchmesse
	Exhibition hall in 2008
Status	Active
Genre	Multi-genre
Frequency	Annually, in mid-October
Venue	Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds
Location(s)	Frankfurt am Main
Country	Germany
Inaugurated	17th century; modern era: 1949
Attendance	286,000
Website	www.buchmesse.de/en

The Frankfurt Book Fair (German: Frankfurter Buchmesse, abbr. FBM) is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. The five-day annual event in mid-October is held at the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The first three days are restricted exclusively to professional visitors; the general public attend the fair on the weekend.

Several thousand exhibitors representing book publishing, multimedia and technology companies, as well as content providers from all over the world gather in order to negotiate international publishing rights and license fees. The fair is organised by Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH, a subsidiary of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. More than 7,300 exhibitors from over 100 countries and more than 286,000 visitors took part in the year 2017.^[1]

^ Elm, Karina (4 December 2018). "Meet the German Booksphere! Facts & Figures for Europe's largest book market". insights.netgalley.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

[1] Elm, Karina (4 December 2018). "Meet the German Booksphere! Facts & Figures for Europe's largest book market". insights.netgalley.com. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

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