Slovenian culture reflects both Europe’s rich cultural diversity and its own unique and independent identity. Physically and culturally located at the crossroads of various nations, Slovenia is a multilingual nation with a proportionally small population of native speakers. Despite its relatively small size, Slovenia ranks second globally in terms of books published per million residents. And, like many other small, multilingual book industries, the Slovenian book market relies heavily on translations.
Take this opportunity to hear what Slovenia has to offer as a potential export market for your titles.
Topics include:
- the state of publishing, distribution, and retail
- licensing, translation, and audio rights
- co-editions
- reading and book buying habits
- market trends and key players
- the ebook and audiobook markets
- and much more!
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YOUR HOST
Miha Kovač is professor at the Department of Library and Information Science and Book Studies at the University of Ljubljana. In his publishing career, he worked as editorial director in the two largest Slovene publishing houses, DZS and Mladinska knjiga and as an editorial director of Slovene edition of National Geographic Magazine. In 1999 he started to lecture in the University of Ljubljana, at the Department for Information and Publishing studies and Library Science. Between 2011 and 2021 he was head of digital development at the biggest Slovene publishing house Mladinska knjiga. He is the author of more than fifty articles and four books on book history, reading and book publishing. His main research interest is publishing and reading statistics and educational publishing. His mass-market book Read to Breathe was translated to seven languages. His last book Is this a Book?, co-authored with Angus Phillips, was published in Elements series by Cambridge University Press this July. Currently, Miha’s main task is being curator of Slovenia Guest of Honour program at Frankfurt book fair in 2023.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through CanExport at Global Affairs Canada.