FRANKFURT, Germany — Frankfurt’s annual book fair is celebrating it’s 60th year with a star-studded lineup of contemporary literary greats, as well as a look at the written word’s jump from the printed page to the digital screen, organizers said Wednesday.
International best-seller Paolo Coelho, as well as Nobel laureates Guenter Grass and Orhan Pamuk are among the guests at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair that opens Oct. 14 and runs for five days. The featured nation this year is Turkey.
Alongside the fair’s traditional highlights on education and fighting illiteracy, this year’s fair will focus on the impact of new media and electronic readers on the traditional printed literary world. Both Sony Corp. and Amazon.com will be presenting their electronic readers, the Reader and Kindle, respectively.
“What we are now seeing is something new,” book fair director Juergen Boos told a news conference. “It is no longer the computer that is being simulated, it is the book.”
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