Chapter 13. Acknowledgments

This report has been started as a White Paper for the Tools of Change Frankfurt (TOC) conference in October 2011, at the initiative of Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert, and updated and extended in February and October 2012 and in February 2013 for the subsequent TOC events in New York and Frankfurt. Upon the discontinuation of the TOC series, the report’s publisher and owner of the TOC brand, O’Reilly Media, generously allow Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting, who had researched the report and extended it throug a small team of co-authors, to continue its publication as a ressource on the dynamic evolution of ebooks in the diversity of international markets and contexts.

Rebranded as the “Global eBook” report, we wish to thank the following organizations and individuals for their contributions to this report:

Larrauri Arantza, Libranda

Antonio Maria Avila, Spanish Publishers Association

Jesus Badenes, Planeta

Jens Bammel, IPA

Laura Balwdin, O’Reilly Media

Alessandro Baldeschi, Messagerie

Mark Bide, EDItEUR

Manuel Bonik, Lisheennageeha Consulting Limited

Carlo Carrenho, PublishNews

Javier Celaya, Dosdoce

Bashar Chebaro, Arab Scientific Publishers

Salah Chebaro, Nil WaFurat

Virginie Clayssen, Editis

Cheng Sanguo, BookDao

Gemma D’Alessandro, Mondadori

Alexander Draculic, Aleksandar Drakulic

Cameron Drew, Kobo

Dan Fauxsmith, O’Reilly Media

Christine Ferrand, Livres Hebdo

Monica Fernandez, Ministry of Culture, Spain,

Camilla Ferrier , The Marsh Agency

Yana Genova, Next Page

Johan Greif, elib

Vladimir Grigoriev, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication (Russia)

Gilles Haeri, Flammarion

Gaby Harlow, Holtzbrinck

Michael Healy, Copyright Clearance Center

Uwe Heldt, Mohrbooks Agency

Jo Henry, Bowker Market Research

Peter Inkei, Budapest Observatory

Nasser Jarrous, Jarrous Press

Jiang Xiaojuan, Chinese Academy of Press and Publication,

Philip Jones, The Bookseller,

Tina Jordan, AAP

Sergei Kaikin, Russian Publishers Association (St Petersburg),

Chris Kenneally, Copyright Clearance Center

Jens Klingelhöfer, Bookwire.de

Ulrich Klopotek, Klopotek

Mandy Knight, PA

Denis Kotov (Russia)

Miha Kovac, Mladinska Kniga & University of Ljubljana

Inge Kralupper, Hauptverband des österreichischen Buchhandels

Bjarke Larsen, BogMarketed Denmark,

Arnaud Lavalette, SNE (French syndicate)

Albrecht Lempp (+, Poland)

Daniel Lenz, buchreport

Siviu Lupescu, Polirom publisher

Jo Lusby, Penguin China

Eric Marbeau, Gallimard,

Stefano Mauri, GeMS,

Kat Meyer, ConTec Frankfurt Book Fair

Jim Milliott, Publishers Weekly

Geza Morcsanyi Magvető publisher

Johannes Neufeld, Boersenverein

Fabian Niebling, Libri.de

Jonathan Nowell, Nielsen Book Scan

Hong Ouyang, China

Bas Pauw, Dutch Leteren Fonds

Angus Philipps, Oxford Brookes University

Fabrice Piault, Livres Hebdo

Olga Ro, Book Industry Magazine

Renato Salvetti, Edigita

Ronald Schild, Libreka

Christian Schniedermann, Weltbild

Alexandra Shipetina, Eksmo

George Slowik, Publishers Weekly

Cora Stephan (Germany)

Peter Swienkels, Kobo

Patricio Tixis, Planeta

Vesselin Todorov, Ciela Norma

Cecilia van Dalen, Dutch Publishers Association

Len Vlahos, BISG

Alexander Voropaev, Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication (Russia)

Paula Vrolijk, Dutch Publishers Association

Joe Wikert, Olive Software

Thomas Wilking, buchreport

Gabriel Zafrani, Syndicat national de l'édition

Magdalena Zając, Empik Poland,

Lisa Liping Zhang (China)

About the authors of this report

Rüdiger Wischenbart is a publishing consultant based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in international and digital developments in the publishing and other cultural industries. He also researched and (co-) authored the Global Publishing Markets survey for the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry.

Carlo Carrenho is a publishing consultant, trade journalist, and Digital Future Enthusiast, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the founder of the Brazilian book online trade magazine PublishNews and its English-language sister, www.publishnewsbrazil.com[PublishNews Brazil], and he is a council member at Digital Book World.

Miha Kovac started his career in 1985-86 as Editor-in-Chief of Mladina, the only opposition paper in that time in Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, he moved to book publishing and became Editor-in-Chief of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest Slovene book publishing house. In 2000, he started to teach publishing at the University of Ljubljana, and has written extensively on publoishing and on Slovenian politics. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science. In 2010, he returned to book publishing as head of digital development at Mladinska knjiga

Veronika Licher is a publishing consultant as well as a commissioning and copy editor based in Germany. Fluent in Mandarin, she has specialized in reporting on the Chinese book and publishing market since 2000.

Vinutha Mallya is the Principal at LineSpace Consulting, a publishing advisory based in Bangalore, India. She is contributing editor to Publishing Perspectives, a consulting editor to Mapin Publishing, and visiting faculty at the National Book Trust of India.