The CEO panel debate at the Frankfurt Book Fair is hosting leaders of this transformation, to discuss the transformation of the industry, and its future perspectives as they are shaped by their companies.
Wednesday October 10, 2012, from 14:30 to 16:00
Hall 4.2, room Dimension.
Speakers:
• Santiago de la Mora, Director, Print Content Partnerships, EMEA , Google
• Jamie Iannone, President, Barnes & Noble Digital Products
• Elodie Perthuisot, Director of Books, Fnac
• Michael Serbinis, CEO, Kobo
• V.Valliappan, Category Head-Books, Indiaplaza
This event is presented by Livres Hebdo with The Bookseller, buchreport, PublishNews Brazil and Publishers Weekly on the basis of this year’s Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry, and in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Moderated by Rüdiger Wischenbart
Globalization, together with digital, is reshaping the publishing industry worldwide, by literally reinventing how knowledge and reading are brought to consumers on the largest possible scale. The old ways of the book industry are facing disruption on all levels.
The transformation is defined and driven not just by the industry’s traditional players, notably publishers. Distributors, retailers, technology and communication giants have stepped in, and by doing so assume new roles, or more radically, aim at integrating all the available roles of the book industry at once in their respective portfolio. Actors which grew in one national market reach out to global audiences. Emerging economies foster their own initiatives to compete with global giants old or new, while reading and books get embedded, via new devices and distribution channels, along with all other digital content.
At the CEO panel 2011, “New Horizons in Global Publishing”, speakers were Li Chunchi (China Education), John Makinson (Penguin/Pearson), Arnaud Nourry (Hachette), and Oleg Novikov (EKSMO).

The report "Publishing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be released in Paris at the Institut du Monde Arabe on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 (see here), and at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 10, 2012, at 16:15 in hall 5.1 A562 at the Forum Dialogue with details here.

The report is ready for download here.

BookExpo America (June 4 to 7, 2012) in New York welcomes Russia! Under the headline of Read Russia, BEA will feature an exceptionally attractive set of professional and cultural programs on Russian publishing and literature in the framework of its “Global market Forum”. We are happy to serve as BEA in making this happen.

Join us at the Tools of Change TOCFrankfurt conference as we will present an extended update of our survey "Global Ebook Market" and discuss how to "Outsmart Piracy".

TOCFrankfurt
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The report can be downloaded for free at the O Reilly ebook shop here (registration required).