The session on ‘Copyright Issue in Publishing’, a very informative and interesting session, dealt with, as the name suggests, the much-deliberated copyright amendments and other copyright issues that most publishing houses face. The panel included G.R Raghavender, Registrar of Copyrights and Director at the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of…
Workshop 2: Social Media Marketing
Workshop on Social Media Marketing This workshop was handled by two socialmedia strategists, Maya Hemant and Maegan Chadwick-Dobson from Pratham Booksand Tara Books respectively. The use of common social media toolslike blogs, twitter and facebook alongwith not-so-frequently used SoundCloud,Slideshare, Youtube and so on were dealt with. The audience was advised…
Session 5: The Impact of Alternative Publishing
The panel discussion on ‘The Impact of Alternate Publishing’ was chaired by renowned journalist and co-founder of the South-East Asia and Earthquake and Tsunami blog, Peter Griffin. The panelists for this session included Chetna, founder of Graffiti Publishing House, Maitreyi Kandoi, who publishes the magazine titled Kindle; Elin Haf Gruffydd…
Session 4: Publishing houses of the Future.
The second day of the publishing-next conference began with a session on ‘Publishing Houses of the Future.’ This session was chaired by Nilanjana S Roy, a Delhi based literary columnist and critic. The other panel members included Atiya Zaidi, publisher at Ratna Sagar Pvt Ltd, Payal Kumar, vice President at…
Technologies of the future-Indian and UK entrepreneurs
Presentationsby UK and Indian entrepreneurs were organised on the topic of “Futuretechnologies that bridge the divide: Making good in the absence of a supplychain.” The first presenter was Gavin Summers a Digital Services Manager fromthe UK. He suggested an innovative digital strategy called ‘Dynamic Learning’and ‘Practise Every Question’ to improve…
Learning from the music Industry’s experience-Anish Trivedi
An unexpected but much welcomed session by Anish Trivedi , this veteran of the music industry came up and shared his experiences with the changing music industry scenario over the last fifteen years. With the onset of piracy , Torrent’s, itunes and so on, the industry attempted to protect themselves from the internet but…
Session 3: Book Marketing in the Age of Social Media
This session discussed the new roled of book marketing in the context of the prevalence of social media. Probably the much anticipated of all sessions, it was perhaps the most involved of all panel discussions on the first day of Publishing Next. Preeti Vyas, a big believer in social media platform,…
Session 2: The Future of Independent Publishing
The chairperson of the session Ms. Indu Chandrashekhar, publisher and managing editor of Tulika books, New Delhi began this session, on The Future of Independent Publishing, by introducing the panel members, all of whom had rich experience on the independent publishing front. She first explained how IPDA, the Independent Publishers…
Workshop 1: The Art of Academic Writing
Payal Kumar, Vice President, Editorial and Publishing at Sage Publications India, conducted a workshop on “The Art of Academic Writing” on the first day of Publishing Next 2011. Addressing various aspects of the topic, she stated the need for refined writing that will eventually help increase the chances of a…
Publishing Next commences with panel discussion on, "Where are digital books headed?"
The conference got underway in time and the audience was introduced to the theme and tenor of the conference through an introduction by Leonard Fernandes, Co-Founder of CinnamonTeal The first panel discussion was an attempt to answer the question: “where are digital books headed?”. Four panel members, James Bridle, Kailash…