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Frankfurt Rights is Frankfurter Buchmesse's online platform for buying and selling permissions and rights internationally

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    Frankfurt Rights is Frankfurter Buchmesse’s platform for the international rights and licence trade. Anyone interested in buying rights can sign up to Frankfurt Rights, browse the platform, contact sellers, and initiate business. Rights Sellers can set up an online presence of their company and content as well as facilitate transactions by using Frankfurt Rights' productivity tools.

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    Benefits for our Buyers

    Discover and buy international rights and permissions online

    DISCOVER titles across all genres and be inspired by the latest content

    CONNECT with your established partners and find new contacts from all over the world

    EXCHANGE ideas with rightsholders and get access to content samples and other relevant rights information

     
    Frankfurt Rights is designed to support rights professionals and editors on a daily and weekly basis as they make acquisition decisions. This platform brings together buyers, sellers, and relevant rights information on a single, easy-to-use platform— there is no more searching through multiple websites, PDFs, and emails to find the information and contacts you need. Our digital communication and presentation tools keep your rights business run smoothly, no matter where you work from. As a buyer you can always use Frankfurt Rights for free — there is no subscription required.
     
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    Frankfurt Rights is the leading online platform for buying and selling rights internationally that enables communication, information sharing and transactions between rights buyers and sellers, allowing publishers to focus more efficiently on relationships and content. 

    Built on IPR License’s established platform by an experienced team of rights and publishing experts, Frankfurt Rights is designed to support rights professionals on a daily and weekly basis as they make sales decisions and already in use by major publishers around the world. From nonfiction and academic works to fiction, children’s books, and more — the platform is for all types of publishers selling subrights, including translation, audio, film, permissions, and more. 

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    • Trusted Partner

      Books from Chile - Longlist (Fiction, Essays, Poetry)

      Chile is Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2027. At the Chilean organiser’s invitation, an open call was conducted among Chilean publishers to find out which titles they would recommend for translation. This is the result. The Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs supports the translation and production of Chilean books through the programmeTranslating Chile. Next call for all languages 2026-2027: November 2025 More information:https://www.dirac.gob.cl/open-call-2026-for-translating-chilean-literature

    • Trusted Partner

      China South Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd.

      China South Publishing & Media Group (CNS)is among the leading publishers in China in terms of market value and profit. Its business comprises publishing, printing, distribution, and newspapers, as well as television stations and networks.

    • Trusted Partner

      Guangxi Normal University Press Group

      Established in 1986, Guangxi Normal University Press is a renowned publisher of academic, education and humanities titles. Shanghai Co. is a fully owned subsidiary of Guangxi Normal University Press. It publishes 200 titles a year, covering a wide spectrum of subjects, from education, social sciences, history and culture, to biographies, memoirs, literature and academic. The company also specializes in genres like architecture and music.

    • Trusted Partner

      Rowohlt Verlag GmbH

      Rowohlt Verlag GmbH with the imprints Rowohlt BERLIN, rowohlt HUNDERT AUGEN, rowohlt POLARIS, WUNDERLICH, KINDLER, rororo, rowohlt rotfuchs, rowohlt e-Book, rowohlt repertoire, rowohlt rotation

    What our members can expect:

    • A custom publisher portal, including profile, key titles and branding 
    • Instant Permissions — automate or partially automate your permissions requests
    • Instant Offer — automate or partially automate your rights requests
    • Instant Rights Guide — quickly created and exported rights catalogues
    • Include your content in our weekly recommendations 
    • Advanced messaging functionality between buyers and sellers
    • Comprehensive search and browsing features
    • A 24-hour global market

    Join the Frankfrights community to gain access to these fantastic features and more. We offer a variety of packages, and signing up is both free and easy.

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    • We switched to Frankfurt Rights 9 months ago and are thrilled about the reduced workload. The customers accepted the transition very well, the contracts can be closed easily and quickly, and we have more time for other projects. In fact, it was great that we switched to Frankfurt Rights last year, since I am currently not in the office and wouldn’t be able to send the permissions out on paper. With IPR, however, it works flawlessly. Overall, the change was more than worth it and we spend considerably less time issuing permissions than before.

      Friederike Fuxen

      Rights Director

      Loewe Verlag was founded in 1863 by Ferdinand Loewe. In 1965, the Loewe Verlag acquired its current shape, which has allowed it to become one of the largest and most successful publishers of books for children and young people in the German-speaking area. Loewe seeks to provide quality books that enrich the lives of children and young people. The aim is to encourage children to read and improve their reading skills.

    • “Frankfurt Rights helps us to handle the administrative part of the reprint permissions quickly and effectively. Through the platform we quickly receive all the relevant information concerning the inquiry. This saves important time for other foreign rights projects.”

      Bianca Kuchenbrod

      Rights Manager

      Arena Verlag is one of the major publishing companies for children’s and young adult fiction in Germany. Founded in 1949, its place of business has been Würzburg ever since. Since 1979, Arena Verlag has been a part of the Westermann Publishing Group. The name Arena stands for knowledge and entertainment; for sophisticated, informative, and simultaneously thrilling children’s and young adult fiction. With about 2,000 available titles, Arena Verlag today offers a diverse range for infants, children, and young adults on hand. There’s something to discover for everyone!

    • "Frankfurt Rights provides an easy to use platform for both sellers and buyers which CABI uses as its main marketplace for selling book rights and has contracted a number of translations of its titles through the platform. This has saved hugely on staff time for a small team, which is a definite plus for us, and the process is pretty straightforward and easy to administer. The Frankfurt Rights team is quick to respond to queries and the platform is a great way to showcase our titles and market them to a wider audience than would have been the case previously. We are happy to recommend Frankfurt Rights for selling book rights."

      Susan Philcox

      Knowledge Business Intellectual Property Manager

      CABI is an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organisation that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Our book publishing programme covers the life sciences and sustainable development, contributing to study, practice and professional development, with 6 main subject areas: Agriculture and International Development; Environmental Sciences; Human Sciences; Plant Sciences; Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure; Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

    • “Without exception, we handle the area of permissions via Frankfurt Rights Instant Permissions. From communication with the licensees to issuing license agreements and generating royalty statements, the licensing portal offers an enormous enrichment in the daily rights trade. The intuitive and constantly evolving user interface greatly simplifies rights handling for both sides. We will intensify our work with the portal and create an even broader range of services on IPR.”

      Viktoria Grandt

      Manager Rights & Licenses

      The name Carl Hanser stands for a publishing house with a variety that is second to none. The range spans from picture books, children’s and young adult literature to contemporary literature from all regions of the world. This literary program is complemented by classic literature from international authors and nonfiction books that impart knowledge and initiate discussions.

    • “IPR allow us to simplify and standardize how we process reprint requests. Our customers can purchase licenses without waiting for confirmation from us, and we can concentrate on more complex special cases, which are often more interesting. This is how licensees and licensors profit from the opportunities that Frankfurt Rights’s automated permissions tools offer.”

      Johanna Tragler

      Rights & Licenses

      Paul Zsolnay Verlag, founded in 1924 in Vienna by Paul Zsolnay, publishes international and German-language literature, classics and collected works, literary crime novels, and a wide palette of humanities and political nonfiction books. The backlist includes Henning Mankell, Ruth Klüger, Graham Greene, Daniel Glattauer, Leo Perutz, Ivo Andric and John Steinbeck. Since 1996, Paul Zsolnay Verlag has been part of the Carl Hanser Group. In 2004, Zsolnay acquired Deuticke Verlag, which was founded in Vienna in 1878.

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