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Free or Fee: Valuing content in the digital era
As the publishing industry enters the digital age, publishers and readers alike are struggling to put a price on content. LCC’s Publishing Innovation Conference will explore how publishers are adapting to the digital marketplace, and question if free access can ever function as a successful business model.
Panel 1: Winners and Losers in Magazines
- Mark Beilby – Co-founder and Chairman of Apollo Media, Board Director of Cavendish Group
- Nicholas Brett – Deputy Managing Director and Group Editorial Director, BBC Magazines
- Fiona Dent – Managing Director, IPC Connect
- Kurt Edwards – Digital Commercial Director, Future plc
Panel 2: Exploring the Cost of Free Books
- Duncan Campbell – Associate Director of Journal Digital Licensing, Wiley-Blackwell
- Chris Meade – Co-Director, The Institute for the Future of the Book
- Frances Pinter – Publisher, Bloomsbury
- Henry Volans – Head of Digital Publishing, Faber & Faber
The opening perspective, to be delivered by Ben Hammersley – Editor at Large, Wired UK and Founder of Dangerous Precedent Ltd: Do writers need to be digitally equipped to remain valuable?
Join us to discuss: Free or Fee? Thursday 18 March, 2010. Admission is FREE but registration is required.
For more information on times & place, or to register to attend, visit our website — www.publishinginnovation.com
