The Book Market
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The medium of the book, as a portable store of knowledge, has always made a central contribution to the rise of cultural areas. Dependent by its nature on language, the book market rendered pan-European communication possible over the centuries during which Latin was the lingua franca of scholars, with the formation of various regional centres. Since as long ago as the Reformation, however, the character of the book markets has been increasingly marked by the national languages. The resulting barriers were overcome primarily by translation. Within the world-wide transfer of knowledge and culture, the business of translation gained considerable importance in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since the end of the Second World War, the international links of the book markets have once again become closer knitted – through literary agencies, the formation of multinational corporations and the licence agreements transacted at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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