EDItEUR Supply Chain track

New addition to TOC Frankfurt on Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Sponsored by:

Ingram Content Group Inc. is the world’s largest and most trusted distributor of physical and digital content. Thousands of publishers, retailers, and libraries worldwide use our products and services to realize the full business potential of books, regardless of format. Ingram has earned its lead position and reputation by offering excellent service and creating innovative, integrated solutions. Our customers have access to best-of-class digital, audio, print, print-on-demand, inventory management, wholesale and full-service distribution programs.

Headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania with extensive production and technology facilities located in Chennai, South India, codeMantra brings a managed approach to digital publishing with people, process and technology. The company’s reputation is built on quality conversion services and—with the recent acquisition of Preparè – quality composition services. The company serves all disciplines of commercial publishing (STM, Trade, Academic and Education) and annually processes millions of pages of content across a broad range of formats – from print-ready PDF and postscript files to XML, SGML, XHTML, HTML, ePub, uPDF™, PDB, ASCII, and more. The company’s BPO services are complemented by a collectionPoint™, its hosted DAM and digital distribution platform, currently used by more than 40 publishers. codeMantra will release collectionPoint 3.0, this month (October 2011), along with cPMetalogic, a powerful Onix-driven metadata management and real-time editing application.

EDItEUR’s community brings a different perspective, focusing on the operational challenges facing the book and e-book supply chains, with a particular emphasis on supply chain efficiency and effectiveness. These are critical issues at a time of turbulent change in the industry, as everyone seeks to balance the burgeoning demands of their digital business with the continuing imperative to support the mainstream physical business which remains the bedrock of their profitability.

Sessions will include:

Key market developments
Moderator: Mark Bide, EDItEUR, with Jonathan Nowell, president, Nielsen Book; Philip Downer, former CEO Borders UK

This session will provide an overview of market developments in both physical and digital books. Our two presenters, with very different perspectives, will help us to understand what has happened in retail bookselling over the last 12 months – and what may happen over the next 12.

Wholesalers in transition
Moderator: Brian Green, EDItEUR

Book wholesalers have played an increasingly vital role in supply chain and market developments over the last few decades, providing excellent service to booksellers and a relatively level playing field for publishers of all sizes. But how are the major wholesalers adapting and helping their bookseller and publishing trading partners to profit from the dramatic increases in Internet bookselling, the rapidly growing e-book market and other developments? John Ingram, Chairman of Ingram Content Group, Frank Thurmann, Managing Directorof KNV and Bob Jackson, Commercial Director of Gardners Books, present and discuss their company’s current offerings and thoughts for the future in a round table session moderated by Brian Green of EDItEUR.

Promoting products from the infinite shelf: richer metadata for e-book marketing
Moderator: Graham Bell, EDItEUR

E-books remove a limitation from the physical book supply chain — the limited length of the bookshelf. So publishers need no longer compete for access to the retailer’s physical store space. But with e-book numbers exploding, how does a consumer discover what’s available and make a selection? How does a publisher make its titles stand out? Through a series of lightning talks, this session looks at ensuring your products appeal to their potential purchasers, and at rich book metadata and the methods that can be used to deliver it to supply chain partners.

Responding to disruptive change in the supply chain
Moderator: Paola Mazzucchi (AIE), with Noah Genner, BookNet Canada
The supply chain is moving in ways that are testing existing systems and approaches. How should we respond?

Making standards in the 21st Century
Moderator Ronald Schild (MVB)

Standards have never been as important to the industry as they are today, but creating and maintaining the standards which oil the wheels remains challenging. In an informal round table, three leaders in the world of standards development for the publishing industry – Peter Brantley of the Internet Archive, Bill McCoy of the International Digital Publishing Forum, and Mark Bide of EDItEUR – will discuss the challenges of the next few years as they see them, and explain how their organisations are trying to meet them.

Remaking the supply chain
Moderator: Mark Bide, EDItEUR, with Arantza Larrauri, CEO, Libranda; Pieter Swinkels, director, publishers & industry relations EU, Kobo, Inc.

The supply chain for e-books in the Europe is still forming. National and international players are both seeking to shape the market in ways that are appropriate to local circumstances.