Frankfurt Book Fair admits defeat over London expo

Monsters and Critics.com Reports The organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair admitted defeat Friday in a competition to host a book expo next April in London, but said they would seek ways to sue the Earls Court exhibition ground.

On May 5, the Germans shocked the book publishing world by announcing they planned to hold a 2007 spring book fair in central London, in a direct challenge to the London Book Fair set to take place in spring in a remote part of London, the Docklands.