EBF/IBF EVENTS AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2008

Thursday 16 October

EBF GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS UP AT 10.45 TO IBF MEMBERS ( FREE ACCESS TO IBF MEMBERS)
10.45 am Hall 3 Kontrast Room via Ost Foyer	Is the academic book market setting the trends for the general book market? Presentation by Dorothea Redeker. Changes in users’ behaviour determine the trends in the academic book market. Books are more and more replaced by electronic products or by information on the Internet. Cyber communities take on booksellers’ tasks such as consulting and giving advice. Users prefer to access information using socially interactive information tools as part of their daily (work) environment. These trends require a rethinking of booksellers’ roles and a redefining of business activities. Since the general book market has already experienced some of the trends evident in the academic market, both can learn from each other. Dorothea Redeker - a graduated in geography and chemistry - looks back to a long and comprehensive experience in information technology and the book trade including engagements for publishers, library suppliers and associations of the book trade. As an independent consultant she now combines research in retail geography with projects in the book business.
EBF/IBF SEMINARS (30 €/ SEMINAR – EBF AND IBF MEMBERS GET A 10% DISCOUNT)
12.00 Noon Hall 4.C Entente	Seminar 1: “Successfully selling children’s and teenage books”. How to attract tomorrow’s customers to your bookshop with a small marketing budget… By Mladen Jandrlic and Susanna Wengeler. Mladen Jandrlic was born in 1959 in Yugoslavia. He studied Germanic and Hispanic languages as well as general literature in Zagreb and in Muenster and was a lecturer in History of German literature at the University of Zagreb. He also worked as a teacher in Passau, Skanderborg (Denmark) and Buchs (Switzerland). For many years he acted as lecturer and licence manager for the Swiss picture book publisher North-South. In 2006 he founded the Literature and Licensing Agency "Books & Rights" in Zurich. He has also written several children's books under the name Karl Rühmann, and works as a translator. Susanna Wengeler was born in 1971 in Düsseldorf. She first trained as a bookseller in the German publishing house Stern in Düsseldorf and then studied general linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University. She worked for several years at the children's bookshop in Dusseldorf. Since 2000, she is the editor of the trade magazine BuchMarkt, where she is in charge of the children and teenage book section.
1 pm Hall 4.C Entente	Seminar 2: “Print On Demand” By Luc Spooren, WWAOW Luc Spooren is the Sales and Marketing Manager of wwaow.com, an internet publishing company of Peleman Industries, whose HQ are located in Flanders/Belgium. With the brand WWAOW.com, Peleman Industries offers an "on demand" book printing, binding and fulfilment service for a broader professional and consumer market. Through a network of printing partners in Europe, the US and Japan, any book becomes and remains available anywhere in the world at any time. Thanks to Wwaow.com a bookshop can order out-of-print books with exactly the same professional paper and binding quality as the initial first print.
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EBF/IBF Annual Conference 2008 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11-14 June

Joined Promotion in the Dutch Booktrade
by Henk Kraima, managing director of "Stichting CPNB" (Foundation for the Promotion of the Dutch Book)
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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
by Ronald Jansen, CIO at "Centraal Boekhuis"
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e-Warehouses
by Bob Jackson, Commercial Director of Gardners Books in the UK
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The Book Industry Study Group's View
by Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, New York
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Basic Booksellers Practices
by Marina Kameneva, Director of Moscow Book House and President of the Russian Booksellers Association
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Books you need straight to office
by Marina Kameneva, Director of Moscow Book House and President of the Russian Booksellers Association
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EBF/IBF SEMINARS AT THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2007

Seminar 1
"SELLING AUDIO BOOKS IS FUN!”
Ms. Tittel was during many years CEO of Dussmann das Kulturkaufhaus in Berlin and knows much about the German Book and Audio Book Trade. Now a free-lance consultant, she will explain how and why the German audio-book market is booming. Who buys audio-books? Which share of the market? Which price strategy? What to expect in the near future in Germany and elsewhere?
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Seminar 2
“THE DIGITAL WAREHOUSE: AN OVERVIEW ABOUT GARDNER‘S COMBINED PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION FROM A BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS PERSPECTIVE”
Bob Jackson, Commercial Director of Gardners Books, U.K., will explain how Gardners will adapt to the digital revolution and offer new services to publishers and booksellers.
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EBF Annual Conference 2007 - Coimbra, Portugal, 3-6 May 2007

"If booksellers do not answer customers’ needs, the pirates will in the future"
Presentations are available in the "Members only" section.
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"Which customers for which bookshops? A better understanding of consumption using a study made by the Boersenverein on the profile of readers/book buyers" by Dorothea Redeker (click here to access the document - pdf)
"How can booksellers adapt to their customers’ new needs, and in particular to the digital revolution? How can a bookseller sell digital books?"
By Denis Zwirn (click here to access the PPT presentation) and Thierry Lecompte (click here to access the PPS presentation)
"Is print-on-demand really going to take off? When, at which price, and for which customers?" by David Taylor (click here to access the document - pdf)

Professional Seminars at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006

"How to start an English Section in your Bookshop?"
The speaker of this workshop was Liz McNaughton, European Sales Manager for Pub Easy. Liz has over 20 years experience in the publishing industry, with much of that experience focusing on the solutions that technology and electronic services can bring to the industry.

"How to deal with digitization in your bookshop?"
How can an independent bookseller survive this seismic shift? John Mc Namee, EBF President and independent bookseller in Portlaoise, Ireland, will give his views on this issue.
How can an academic bookseller survive in this context? Juancho Pons, EBF Vice-President, Member of IBF Council and academic bookseller in Zaragoza, Spain, shall share his experience with participants.

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Presentation of the e-reader to participants as well as the results of an experiment led in Belgium (Flanders) about consumers’ behaviour and the use of e-link and e-readers in Flanders, by Nico Verplancke, Programme Manager of IBBT involved in the “E-paper” project.

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EBF and IBF Annual Conference 2006 - Turin, Italy, 3-6 May 2006

Innovate... or Fail! "... Keep your Bookshop in Business by keeping your Business in the Bookshop"

The aim of the conference is to focus participants’ attention on the absolute necessity of keeping up with innovations in the trade if they want to expand their bookselling activity, or even simply stay in business.
Technologies are evolving faster and faster and bringing in new challenges at a rapid pace: Google is defying the book community with its Google Print and Google Library Programmes. New types of electronic books are to be launched on the market. Authors can contact their readers directly through online book providers.
How to cope with these changes? What implications do they have for the book trade as a whole, and on bookselling in particular? Is it the end of the paper book? What impact will all this have on the book supply chain and on the behaviour of consumers? Will there still be publishers and booksellers in 20 years’ time?

The conference, jointly organised by the European Booksellers Federation and the International Booksellers Federation, will explore and discuss these challenging issues and see how booksellers can “keep their bookshop in business by keeping their business in the bookshop”

The organization of the conference has been possible thanks to the help and the support of ALI, (Associazione Librai Italiani) and of the Turin Book fair.

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