Frankfurt Book Fair

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Dates
Oct 6 to Oct 10, 2027
Where
Frankfurt, DE
Cost
Paid ticket. Ticket sales start summer 2027; 2026 5-day trade ticket was EUR 165.
Type
Trade show · Paid ticket
Organizer
Frankfurter Buchmesse
Last checked
October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site

Official site and registration

Speaking opportunities

Speaking not checked

Who goes

Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.

Segments: Publishing and book industry

Roles: literary agent, publisher, book editor

The field it serves: Media & Entertainment

Verified open jobs
about 5,911

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

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Typical posted salary
$127,000 a year (middle half $85,000 to $172,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 1,655 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Entry or early-career level
28% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

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Employment, year over year
−4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, October 2026.

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Full Media & Entertainment snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences

Employers at this conference

Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.

  • 3sat Sponsoring 2026
  • A.V.I. Sponsoring 2026
  • ARD Sponsoring 2026
  • arte Sponsoring 2026
  • b.i.t online Sponsoring 2026
  • BIB e.V. Sponsoring 2026
  • Book Industry Study Group Sponsoring 2026
  • BookBrunch Sponsoring 2026
  • Bookcareers Sponsoring 2026
  • BookMachine Sponsoring 2026
  • Bookwire Sponsoring 2026
  • Buchkultur Sponsoring 2026
  • Buchmarkt Sponsoring 2026
  • Byte the Book Sponsoring 2026
  • Charleston Conference Sponsoring 2026
  • CLMP Sponsoring 2026
  • Correctiv Sponsoring 2026
  • demoSlam Sponsoring 2026
  • derFreitag Sponsoring 2026
  • Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Sponsoring 2026
  • Deutschlandfunk Sponsoring 2026
  • Die Zeit Sponsoring 2026
  • Digital Publishing Report Sponsoring 2026
  • eibf Sponsoring 2026
  • European Database Libraries Sponsoring 2026
  • Focus+ Sponsoring 2026
  • Foreword Reviews Sponsoring 2026
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Sponsoring 2026
  • Frankfurter Rundschau Sponsoring 2026
  • Frankfurter Stadtevents Sponsoring 2026
  • Future! Publish Sponsoring 2026
  • Galore Sponsoring 2026
  • Giornale della Libreria Sponsoring 2026
  • IRCAI Sponsoring 2026
  • Mediacampus Frankfurt Sponsoring 2026
  • Stern Crime Sponsoring 2026
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Sponsoring 2026
  • The Bookseller Sponsoring 2026
  • TikTok Sponsoring 2026
  • ZDF Sponsoring 2026

Read from the event’s own pages: www.buchmesse.de.

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