Global Outlook and Value of the Publishing Industry at London Book Fair

With a changed publishing landscape and the demand for information consumed across a variety of different media platforms. This session will address the value of growing the book market and book readership in a today’s digital world. What are the challenges and opportunities in this changing ecosystem and how can business models be continuing adapted?

Chair: Philip Jones, Managing Editor, The Bookseller

Panelists:

Nigel Newton, President, Publishers Association
Nigel Newton is the founder of Bloomsbury. Born in San Francisco, he read English at Cambridge. After working at Macmillan, he joined Sidgwick & Jackson and then started Bloomsbury in 1986. He was appointed CBE in 2021 and is President of the Publishers Association.

He serves as a Member of the Advisory Committee of Cambridge University Library and President of Book Aid International. He was awarded The LBF Lifetime Achievement Award and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has previously served as a member of the Booker Prize, Chairman of the British Library Trust and Chairman of the Charleston Trust.

Karine Pansa, President, International Publishers Association
Karine is the Managing Partner and Publishing Director at Girassol Brasil Edições, a 23 years old Children’s Book Publisher in Brazil. She has been in the publishing industry for almost 30 years now.

After two terms as President at the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL) she had dedicated her efforts for one term as President of Instituto Pro Livro (IPL), a non-profit Civil Society Organization of Public Interest, a NGO dedicated to develop reading and literacy aspects in Brazil.
Karine was part of the Directive Board of the National Book and Reading Plan in Brazil (PNLL), a set of programs in the book industry, promoting reading habits, literature and developing libraries in Brazil, undertaken by the State.
Afterwards, Karine was part of the Board of Curators of Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, a non-profit NGO who’s dedicated to inclusion of people with visual impairments, through access to education and culture. She was also the Chair of the Board of Directors at DNA, a subsidiary company of Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, specialized in providing rehabilitation services, special education, low vision clinic and Employability programs.

Karine is still part of the Board of Directors at CBL working on international projects aimed to develop presence and knowledge of Brazilian authors abroad.
She was also elected a member of the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association (IPA) for two terms and then for Vice President in 2019. In 2022, Pansa was elected President of the International Publishers Association, the world’s largest federation of national, regional and specialist publishers’ associations whose membership comprises 92 organisations from 76 countries in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, IPA represents the interests of the publishing industry in international fora and wherever publishers’ interests are at stake.

Maria A. Pallante, President and Chief Executive, Association of American Publishers
Maria A. Pallante has served as President and Chief Executive of the Association of American Publishers since 2017. Working with her talented team, she leads public policy, information, and litigation priorities in support of the modern publishing industry, with a particular focus on content protections, freedom of expression, and digital markets. Ms. Pallante was previously Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, where she modernized the agency’s regulatory practices; worked closely with Congress on gaps in the law, including author protections and Internet policy; and represented the United States on treaty and diplomatic delegations. Earlier, she was IP counsel and head of licensing with the worldwide Guggenheim Museums; counsel with the Authors Guild; and a lawyer in private practice. Ms. Pallante serves on several boards and professional committees and has delivered a number of prominent legal lectures throughout her career.