Talk:Frankfurt Book Fair

Style

Could someone revise the style of this article radically, please? It reads like German translated into English by a German native speaker. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.222.186 (talk) 21:17, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

India

India as 2006 guest: see german page

World's largest?

Cairo International Book Fair received 2 million visitors in 2007[1] page needs edit ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mefdet (talk • contribs) 18:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

- i edited it : World's largest > World's second largest —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mefdet (talk • contribs) 18:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

It is the largest based on number of publisher/publishing houses represented. As somebody who works in publishing i can tell Frankfurt is almost universally considered the largest and more important in the industry. The number of attendants and especially members of the public in attendance is relatively unimportant for a trade fair at least when compared to the number of businesses represent and Cairo does not even come close to Frankfurt .. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.73.18.9 (talk) 12:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Age of the fair?

Is this the same Frankfurt Book Fair that was running in the 16th century? If so that seems worthy of mention...

I've added a short section about the history. It is not the same book fair, but its tradition goes back to early modern times.

--Meile 15:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

The 2007 Book Fair was the 59th successive Frankfurt Book Fair - but traditions reach back beyond that, with Leipzig as an earlier place for the traditional annual fair being discontinued from the Federal Republic of Germany while Germany was divided into two countries. --Gwyndon 23:29, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Unelaborated and unsupported claim?

I have a question about this sentence in the article.

"A symposium on the division of Korea into north and south was a comparison with the German - very, very different situation of reunion. Maybe the conclusion rather was: to compare does even "hinder"."

This claim is not backed by a source or logical reasoning. If the situation was "very very" different then shouldn't the author elaborate on what and how it was different? Overall the sentence does not make much sense. What is being "hindered" here? The use of "Maybe" indicates uncertainty. There is no place for uncertain claim in Wikipedia or in any other encyclopedia. -Naree 10:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

"The Frankfurt Book Fair is considered to be the most important book fair in the world for international deals and trading" unreferenced...seems rather promotional to me... OsizUrUnkle (talk) 16:15, 28 November 2014 (UTC)