• Bertelsmann attended the Frankfurt Book Fair as it opened today, positioning its publishing and services units across multiple stands.
• Penguin Random House Verlage rolled out a new logo and “Penguin Random House Verlage” wordmark at its main stand.
• The Blue Sofa author series returned to the fair’s core program with eight scheduled sessions on the Discovery Stage on Thursday and Friday.
• Arvato’s VVA used the fair to market publishing logistics and digital distribution services, citing 120 million books and games shipped last year.
• Bertelsmann Stiftung scheduled a “Germany’s Democracy Check” event for Sunday, tied to its Demokratiemonitor 2026 survey.

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