Follow the adventures of Penguin operatives over the next few days as they pit their wits against the might of the international publishing and agenting community at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair. Day Two and Agent X is pretty pleased with the Penguin stand...
I never feel happier to work for a massive conglomerate like Penguin than when I walk into Hall 8 of the Frankfurt book fair each year. I walk past the tiny booth of some tiddly independent in aisle Z (the Siberia of Frankfurt) and head off to row G right bang in the middle of the hall, and I come across the mighty edifice of the Penguin stand, a feat of engineering which would impress even our very own Jeremy Clarkson. I feel like a medieval peasant in France seeing Chartres cathedral for the first time. The Penguin stand is buzzing with energy. According to the media, editors and publishers only want to work for independents, and everybody who works for conglomerates are corporate drones. What utter bollocks! I love working for a sophisticated, global, super-professional company like Penguin and our Frankfurt stand is the supreme symbol of that.
(Picture by Marc Barker - see more of his work here)
Our Man at the Bookfair
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This thread is better than the City Boy column in The London Paper - can Agent X continue his anonymous insider view after the Frankfurt fair?
Posted by: Knuckles | October 10, 2007 at 02:36 PM