TRADE DAY 2021

Publishing Ireland was founded in 1970 as CLÉ – Irish Book Publishers’ Association  in response to the need felt by publishers to share expertise and resources in order to benefit from opportunities and solve problems which were of common concern to all.Membership of Publishing Ireland has grown significantly and comprises most of the major publishing houses in Ireland with a mixture of trade, general and academic publishers as members.Publishing Ireland is a cross-border organisation, with a Board drawn from the member companies’ staff and various committees and working groups. Publishing Ireland is run on the principles of inclusion and accountability, responding to and anticipating members’ needs.

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The 9th annual Publishing Ireland Trade Day The topic for today’s Trade Day will be ‘Reconnecting’.

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Our 9th annual Publishing Ireland Trade Day will once again, and hopefully for the last time, be virtual this year.The topic for this year’s Trade Day will be ‘Reconnecting’, as we all look forward to seeing and working with each other again in the not-too-distant future.The day will be an informative and engaging mix of expertise from some key players across the publishing spectrum. Speakers from home and abroad will offer insights into what has been another strange year as we all grappled with what became the ‘new normal’. We will begin the day with ‘Connecting to the listener &amp; understanding the Audiobook market’ with Fionnuala Barrett from HarperCollins. If you have any questions for Fionnuala on Audiobooks, we kindly ask you to submit them via the Eventbrite registration form before Friday, 5th November.This will be followed by a panel discussion on the ‘Challenges of the International Publishing Supply Chain’. This is an issue that is affecting the whole industry right now. We have therefore invited industry experts to give their perspectives on what’s been happening and to discuss what the future may hold for printing, distribution and wholesale, and retail. This session will be chaired by Matthew Parkinson Bennett, Little Island, and will feature Louise Cameron, Owner of Raven Books, John Manning, Distribution Director at Gill and Simon Rosenheim, Managing Director, Imago.Next, we will do a data ‘deep dive’ with Oliver Beldham of Nielsen – a look at this very strange year in books and insights on future trends for next year and beyond.The last session before lunch is ‘Read the World: The Cheltenham Literature Festival and Irish Publishing with Lyndsey Fineran.’ Lyndsey’s talk will centre on her experiences as Programme and Commissions Manager for the Cheltenham Literature Festival, with an emphasis on what Irish publishers can do to ensure they are well placed to secure participation in this and similar literary festivals. A great opportunity to learn more about this iconic literary festival.This year we will also have a virtual coffee break to allow those attending to catch up and network with their colleagues in the publishing world.Our Keynote Speaker at this year’s event is ‘Alex Bowler of Faber &amp; Faber’, in a talk that promises to be fascinating given the breadth of authors who Alex has worked with over a rich and varied career. Alex is the Publisher at Faber &amp; Faber, one of the world’s pre-eminent independent publishing houses. A member of the Faber board, Alex leads the editorial team and is the executive director of the Design and Rights departments. Amongst the authors he works with are Rachel Cusk and Claire Keegan, Eimear McBride, Orhan Pamuk and Sally Rooney. Prior to Faber, Alex worked as Executive Publisher at Granta Books, having previously spent a decade at Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House. There he developed a list of prize-winning literary writers, including Evie Wyld and Tom McCarthy, Kevin Barry, Daisy Johnson and Colin Barrett, and edited some of the imprint’s most important authors, including Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes and Helen Fielding.Publishing Ireland would like to encourage as broad a range of staff as possible to attend to hear the speakers, meet your colleagues virtually and share experiences in the world of book publishing.

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