所有人都已意识到,数字化将会长久存在,纸书和亚马逊也是如此。时代变了,但明天并不是世界末日,大家都已整装待发。每到秋天,除了撒满大街小巷的金色落叶和美因河中倒映的山峦树影,法兰克福飘来的书香算得上是妆点欧洲的另一道别样景致。全世界的“书虫”们在刚刚过去的10月重聚法兰克福,尽管专业参展人数略微下滑(14万人——相较去年下降2%),但人们的热情却空前高涨。重磅交易频频传出,出版界的大佬们也纷纷对未来表达了乐观的态度。也许这次在美因河畔的重聚带给出版业的最大意义是,更多出版商,包括法兰克福书展本身,已经明显不再惧怕 Everyone has come to realize that digitization will last forever, as do paper books and Amazon. Times have changed, but tomorrow is not the end of the world, and everyone is ready. Each fall, apart from the golden deciduous streets and alleys and the silhouetted mountains in the Main River, the blossoming of Frauenkirchen is regarded as another spectacle of Europe. The “bookworm” of the world reunited with Frankfurt in the very last October, and despite the slight decline in the number of professional exhibitors (140,000 - 2% down from last year), the enthusiasm of the people is unprecedented. Heavy trading was heard frequently, and the bigwigs in the publishing industry also expressed optimistic attitudes toward the future. Perhaps the greatest significance this time of reincarnation on the Main River brings to the publishing industry is that more publishers, including the Frankfurt Book Fair itself, have clearly been no longer afraid