Press releases
CONTENTshift sponsorship programme: Call for startups with business ideas for the book industry
Sponsorship programme brings startups, experts and investors together / Applications from startup founders from both Germany and abroad welcome / Applications accepted until 1 May 2024 / Funding of 10,000 euro for winning startup
German Book Prize 2024: Meet the jury for the 20th-anniversary year
Seven jury members selected / The German Book Prize is being awarded for the 20th time / Publishers may submit titles until 20 March 2024 / Call for submissions at www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/anmeldung
German Non-Fiction Prize 2024: 115 publishers submit 191 titles
Stefan Koldehoff is appointed jury spokesperson / Award ceremony to be held on 11 June 2024 in the Small Hall of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg
Buchmarkt 2023: Positive Umsatzbilanz in herausfordernden Zeiten
Umsatz in zentralen Vertriebswegen gegenüber 2022 um 2,9 Prozent gestiegen, Absatz jedoch um 1,9 Prozent gesunken / Belletristik mit starken Zuwächsen / Buchhandlungen und Verlage weiter unter Druck
Book market 2023: Positive turnover results in challenging times
Increase in turnover of 2.9 per cent across central sales channels compared to 2022, however sales fell by 1.9 per cent / Strong growth for fiction / Bookstores and publishing houses remain under pressure
German Non-Fiction Prize 2024: the jury has been selected
Seven jury members nominated / Publishers can register titles until 17 November 2023 / Call for submissions on anmeldung.deutscher-sachbuchpreis.de
Salman Rushdie awarded the 2023 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
Rushdie: "Peace, right now, feels like a fantasy born of a narcotic smoked in a pipe"
CONTENTshift Accelerator: GoLexic is the Content Startup of 2023
First place awarded to reading support app GoLexic / Winner receives the innovation prize of 10,000 euro / Sponsorship programme for startups to be continued in 2024 / Companies from the industry can sponsor the programme and take up a place on the jury
Start of Frankfurter Buchmesse: “Promoting Diversity – Defending Democracy”
Opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 / Book industry’s aim to play a role in strengthening democracy / Small publishing houses in particular at their limit due to economic pressure - structural support urgently needed to maintain diversity on the book
Tonio Schachinger receives the German Book Prize 2023 for “Echtzeitalter”
Tonio Schachinger has won the German Book Prize for his novel “Echtzeitalter” (“Realtimes”) (Rowohlt Verlag).