The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business by Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires

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The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business by Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires A Teaching Guide Chapter 1 ‘What is Book Buzz?’ Use these hashtags • Using the theory of ‘buzz’ in Chapter 1, create (and/or create your rumours/buzz about a made-up book or Blaire Squiscoll’s The Frankfurt Kabuff on social media own) and share all platforms your ideas and images • Create some content marketing for The Frankfurt so we can follow Book Fair and Bestseller Business (e.g. a quiz, a TikTok challenge) along: #tfbfabb #frankfurtbuzzness Chapter 2 ‘Big, Small, Nowhere at All’ • What would a VR version of the Frankfurter Buchmesse be like? Or, for a more low-fi experience, Please also tag what would a guided meditation that walked you @BlaireSquiscoll through the fair sound like and include?Explore the production of • Create a map for a virtual Frankfurt Book Fair. @beth_driscoll What’s at the centre and where are thebestsellers edges? at the@clairesquires Frankfurt Book Chapter 3 ‘Carnivalesque’ Fair, through an@CUPElementsPBC investigation • Carnival: think back to moments of greatinvolving upheaval inthree if consecutive you wish! history (e.g. May 1968, as we write about in Chapter 3). What role did publishing play in thoseyears revolutions? of fieldwork. What books would you have published into them? • What canapés would you serve at the Buchmesse? Why? Conclusion ‘The Broom of History’ • Should the Buchmesse ever happen again, with regard to waste/environmental sustainability & climate crisis? • Who are the losers when the Buchmesse goes virtual? Are there winners? Are these the same as the insiders/ outsiders at the Fair?.

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