- Datum
- 02. May
2012
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- Leon Joskowitz
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Have you ever attended a hangi? Or at least heard of one? No? No worries. That’s just one of the many reasons why I’m travelling through New Zealand for you. The purpose of a hangi is twofold – it’s both an earth oven and a social event. The Maori have been using the hangi for centuries to cook meat and vegetables. A hangi requires fire, water, earth, air, time and kai. Kai is the Maori word for food.
- Trail
- Guest of Honour
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- Hangi, New Zealand, New Zealand is Cooking
- Datum
- 26. April
2012
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- Brittany Hazelwood
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We are well underway with our planning for this year’s Editors’ Trip. In June, seven editors from the United States will be touring Germany and visiting German publishers. In their short entries on the Book Fair blog you can find out what international titles they’re looking for, what the profiles of their respective publishing houses are, and whom each one of them has always wanted to talk to.
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- Academy
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- editor's trip, German Book Office New York, Rights & Licences
- Datum
- 26. April
2012
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- Pia zum Bansen
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Kyle Mewburn, born 1963 in Brisbane, Australia, travelled in Europe and the Middle East before he came to settle down in New Zealand in 1990. He told me that he had always wanted to write. It was his need and a strong desire to use words. But it took him a career as a journalist and be a man of advertisement plus 7 years of writing various kinds of fiction (without any success) to finally come across the genre he is now happy in and above all, very successful: a writer of children’s books. Picture books that is.
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- Guest of Honour
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- Authors, children's books, New Zealand, picture books, Publishers
- Datum
- 25. April
2012
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- Frank Krings
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Warren Buckleitner studies the relationship between children and commercial interactive media products. He is the Editor of Children’s Technology Review and teaches at Rutgers and New York University.
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- Digitisation DIG IT
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- app, apps, Children's and young adult books, children's books
- Datum
- 25. April
2012
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- Holger Volland
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Despite some political and fiscal hurdles, industry experts confirm their belief in the fast and profund growth of the latin american book and ebook markets. During TOC Buenos Aires we talked with Patricia Arancibia and Michael Puscar about latin american book industry and what to expect from it.
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- Academy
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- Frankfurt Academy, toc
- Datum
- 17. April
2012
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- Anne
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New Zealand, our Guest of Honour 2012, has many gifts for its guests up its sleeve, from authors to artists to publishers. We are looking forward to the impressive and intensive experiences and encounters with New Zealand’s literature and culture that await us in the coming months. From the book fair in Leipzig we brought back a video that gives a taste of what’s to come for the cultural “main course” in Frankfurt. You have many highlights to look forward to there – I promise! In this spirit: Ka kite ano! See you – in Frankfurt!
- Trail
- Guest of Honour
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- Authors, New Zealand, Publishers, Video
- Datum
- 10. April
2012
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- Leon Joskowitz
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My trip has taken me from Picton to Bluff and back again. I have travelled nearly 5,000 kilometres thus far and I’ve met a lot of people, some of whom I’ve written about, but many others have gone unmentioned. But all of them have won me over to their way of life. Nothing is so urgent that it should warrant skipping a leisurely meal or a good chat. The clocks tick a little bit slower here; the people are happier and have fewer worries. This is expressed in the common and catchy saying, “No worries“, which I gladly adapted for my own use.
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- Guest of Honour
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- cooking & lifestyle, New Zealand, New Zealand is Cooking
- Datum
- 04. April
2012
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- Frankfurt Academy Quarterly
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The vanishing borders between the creative industries, the drive to be international, and the trade in intellectual property – this issue of the Frankfurt Academy Quarterly brings you interviews about multimedia publishing with five industry insiders. Take part in the discussion on our blog or read this issue offline – you can download it as a PDF.
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- Academy
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- All Media, FAQ
- Datum
- 04. April
2012
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- Frankfurt Academy Quarterly
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An interview with Gus Balbontin, Director of Transformation, Lonely Planet, about how to manage change, and the importance of working and thinking internationally.
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- Academy
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- All Media, FAQ
- Datum
- 04. April
2012
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- Frankfurt Academy Quarterly
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“Children’s publishing innovates more quickly because it has to”, says Deborah Forte, President of Scholastic Media and Executive Vice President of Scholastic Inc. It is in children’s publishing, she believes, that the future of digital publishing can first be seen.
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- Academy
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- All Media, FAQ
