Canada-UK Symposium 2011: Market Overview
Symposium
Livres Canada Books’ Canada-UK Symposium at the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair highlights key Canadian and UK publishers and shows how to work together to develop partnerships, encourage rights sales and build strategic alliances in distribution, co-production, and digital marketing.
Three panels with an impressive array of Canadian and UK industry professionals look at sales and marketing, rights, and digital sales, highlighting their experience and how they are adapting to change to grow their readership and sales.
Watch a video recording of this session (00:51:09)
Speakers
Richard Mollet,
Chief Executive Officer, The Publishers Association
Richard Mollet became chief executive of the Publishers Association in October 2010. Prior to this he was director of Public Affairs at the BPI (the representative body of the UK recorded music business) where he was closely involved in the Digital Economy Act, the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, and the wider debates around the value of copyright and the creative industries. Before joining the BPI, Richard had ten years’ experience as a political communications consultant, working across a range of political and media sectors.
He studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) at Worcester College, Oxford University. Richard is a visiting lecturer for the Hansard Scholars Programme at the London School of Economics.
Margie Wolfe,
President, Association of Canadian Publishers
Publisher and President, Second Story Press
Margie Wolfe is president of the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP), representing approximately 135 Canadian-owned and -controlled book publishers from across the country. The ACP membership is diverse, including companies of various sizes, and publishing adult and children’s literature for the trade, literary, and educational markets.
Margie is owner, publisher, and president of Second Story Press, which develops titles for both adult and younger readers. The niche list focuses on themes of social justice including women’s issues, diversity and the Holocaust. Titles have been released in over fifty countries and translated into more than forty languages with rights for film and stage also sold.
Richard Prieur,
Executive Director, Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL) and Québec Édition
Richard Prieur has worked in public relations for over thirty years as broadcaster and spokesperson for a number of organizations and public events. Vice-president, Communications for the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix (1990–2005) and president of Cité Communications, the company responsible for publications and televising the Canadian Grand Prix and various other events, he was associate editor at Éditions Gesca and Éditions La Presse from 2005 to 2009.
A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal (literature), he has worked as bookseller, public relations officer for the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and most recently as vice-president, communications, responsible for televising the 2005 FINA World Aquatics Championships in Montreal. He sits on the board of directors of the Société de la Banque de titres de langue française (BTLF, Bank of French Language Titles) and is executive director of Québec Édition, an ANEL committee providing promotional services to Quebec and Canadian French-language publishers abroad.
Guy Frenette, Moderator
Chair, Board of Directors, Livres Canada Books
Administrator, Éditions Caractère
A graduate of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in business administration, Guy Frenette has devoted his career to SME management in the publishing and printing sectors.
He joined the family firm, Librairie Beauchemin in 1968, and then worked in printing, public relations and publishing from 1977 to 1985. He returned to the family business as president in 1985 and became proprietor in 1986. Under his leadership, Groupe Beauchemin Éditeur grew as an educational publisher by opening up new markets, developing new product lines, and introducing new technologies for online learning in primary schools.
Since selling the business to Chenelière Éducation in 2005, Guy has been involved in developing SMEs in the traditional and electronic publishing industries and the printing sector. He serves on a number of boards and is a partner in two Quebec publishing houses. Throughout his career he has played an active role in professional associations related to publishing (namely, the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres and the Association for the Export of Canadian Books) and non-profit organizations. He currently chairs the Board of Directors of Livres Canada Books.