Canada-UK Symposium 2011: Rights
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 (00:53:09)
Speakers
Rosalind Ramsay,
Literary scout, Rosalind Ramsay Ltd
Rosalind Ramsay began scouting in 1996 and, together with her team, looks after publishers from around the world as well as a major UK film and television company. Focusing on the UK market, she recommends the right books to her clients so that they may acquire translation or film rights early and with support. Her background is in agenting with Andrew Nurnberg Associates and with Rogers, Coleridge & White, where she sold translation rights for both UK and US agencies in a wide variety of language territories.
Philip Cercone,
Executive Director, McGill-Queen’s University Press
Philip Cercone did graduate work in American colonial history and from 1976 to 1985 was director of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Aid to Scholarly Publications Program in Ottawa, which subsidizes Canadian publishers. In 1985, he took up an academic appointment at McGill University as executive director and senior editor of McGill-Queen&rsquuo;s University Press. Philip sits on the board of directors of the Press and is chair of its publications review committee. As well, he edits the Press’s distinguished History of Ideas series.
Philip has been the president of the Association of Canadian Publishers (twice); the Association for the Export of Canadian Books (5 times); the Association of Canadian University Presses (twice); the Association of Quebec University Presses (twice); the Association of English Language Publishers of Quebec; and the Italian Canadian Professional and Businessmen Association of Canada. For the past three years he was involved with the founding of eBOUND Canada, a not-for-profit organization with the purpose of advancing Canadian publishers’ digital engagement, on whose Board he now sits. In 2010 Philip received the Association of Canadian Publishers President’s Award “for leadership through volunteer service to the publishing industry and ACP.”
Nicole Saint-Jean, President and Executive Director, Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur
Nicole Saint-Jean is president and executive director of Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur, a family publishing company celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur has become a major player in Quebec publishing, known for non-fiction guides on food and health as well as for popular fiction for adults and teens. The internationally successful erotica series has been published in twenty-five countries.
A business graduate of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Nicole is also a lawyer. After working as an editor for a number of publishers, she joined Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur, the publishing house founded by her father. She worked in the editorial department and became head of the company following the death of her father in 2005. She is actively involved in the book industry: currently vice-president of the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres, she also serves on the board of directors of the Salon du livre de Montréal and works for several consulting firms contracted by the Quebec Department of Cultural Affairs.
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.