{"id":274476,"date":"2009-10-19T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/10\/19\/globallocal-new-directions-in-publishing\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:21","slug":"globallocal-new-directions-in-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/10\/19\/globallocal-new-directions-in-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"GlobalLocal: New Directions in Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post originally appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book-fair.com\/en\/blog\/\">Frankfurt Book Fair blog.<\/a> I highly recommend visiting the official blog for interesting posts from Richard Nash, Alex Hippisley-Cox, and Arun Wolf<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back in February, a publishers&#8217; roundtable took place in New Delhi to talk about opportunities of new markets, new models, new collaborations, that could develop amid the global financial crisis. Entitled &#8220;GlobalLocal: New Directions in Publishing,&#8221; this conference included the likes of Juergen Boos, Frankfurt Book Fair director; Ajay Shukla, managing director of McGraw-Hill India; Stella Chou, managing director of China business development, HarperCollins China; and Richard Charkin, executive director, Bloomsbury Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I wish I could&#8217;ve attended this (or at least have a chance to visit New Delhi&#8212;there must be some book related festival or organization that would like to fly a poor publisher\/journalist over to write up some events . . . right? hello?), but thanksfully the German Book Office New Delhi has now produced a volume collecting the transcripts of the roundtable, afterthoughts on the conference, and essays from a variety of important thinkers and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I haven&#8217;t had time to read this volume, but anyone interested in the future of publishing will definitely want to hunt down <span class=\"caps\">GBO<\/span> New Delhi director Akshay Pathak and get a copy. It&#8217;s totally nerdy, but just reading the titles of the panels and essays has me all excited: &#8220;Independent Publishing: Challenges and Advantages,&#8221; &#8220;The Way Ahead: The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact,&#8221; &#8220;An Independent Future: Indian Publishing, Global and Local,&#8221; and several other subtitled and nonsubtitled pieces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/157.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared on the Frankfurt Book Fair blog. 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