GBO to host German publishers during Exclusive India trip

The trip starts on 8 February 2015, and goes on until 13 February 2015. The last two days of the trip includes attendance at Globalocal on 12 and 13 February at The Eros, New Delhi.

Exclusive India is a curated trip which combines direct market interface and expert insights, offering an opportunity for the participants, a select group of international professionals from various geographies, to meet and interact directly, with key players from various domains of the Indian publishing industry, while adding to their knowledge of the book trade and market in India.

GBO, New Delhi, has been organising the trip every year since year 2013. It was initiated with the aim to offer international publishing professionals, with an interest in the South Asian publishing and allied industry, a deep insight into the local publishing market. India, among the top seven publishing nations in the world, is house to a dynamically expanding book trade with a diversely rich language publishing scenario to go along with its prominent English language publishing landscape.
 

What is special at Exclusive India this year is also symbolic of India and Germany sharing a fascinating partnership that spans more than 500 years. Max Mueller and Johann Georg Foster’s translations of Kalidasa and other texts have continued to enthuse Germans about India. On the Indian side, writers and intellectuals like Hermann Hesse and Bertolt Brecht, among others, are known names in the Indian literary circles.

The trip will take the German delegates across Delhi and Chennai – two of the most important publishing industry hubs in India. Delhi is where prominent independent publishing houses co-exist with the important multinational publishers. Delhi is also the home to book retail chains, local indie bookstores, literary agencies and boasts of an active literary scene. Chennai, on the other hand, is a city known globally for its digital solution providers while also housing some powerhouse independent Indian publishers as well. So, between Delhi and Chennai, the participants will visit carefully selected publishing houses, book stores, and digital providers, while also getting a chance to interact with literary columnists, editors, and authors.

The trip culminates at Globalocal 2015, the multi-format B2B event where national and international participants from publishing and allied trade come together to network and attend roundtable discussions, workshops, rights training, business matchmakings, etc. For details on both the events, please visit globalocal-forum.com.
 

The following are the participants at Exclusive India Trip 2015:

Roberto Bertoli Riboli, international sales executive, Eli Publishing, Italy

With 14 years of experience in the publishing world, Riboli is now the international sales and licensing executive of ELI (European Language Institute) in charge of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Asian countries. He spends a big part of each year travelling extensively to book fairs and teachers events to meet customers and distributors. Eli Publishing has been in the forefront of foreign language teaching publications for over 40 years. Eli produces and publishes materials targeted to teachers and students of English, French, Spanish, German and Italian as foreign languages.

Irina Prokhorova, editor-in-chief, New Literary Observer Publishing House, Russia

Prokhorova is a culture historian, literary critic, editor, publisher, and social activist. In 1992, she established New Literary Observer publishing house, which at present comprises three scholarly periodicals, and over 80 books per year on literary criticism, philosophy, history, cultural and interdisciplinary studies, contemporary Russian prose and poetry.

Hasri Hasan, senior manager, Perbadanan Kota Buku, Malaysia

Kota Buku is a government agency in charge of book trade and capacity building of the industry. Its operation is under the purview of ministry of education and mandated to oversee the interest of agencies, industry players and public at large related to books

Manuel Quirin, rights manager, Suhrkamp, Germany

Since graduating in political sciences in 2009, Quirin is working as a rights manager at the rights and foreign rights department of Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin. Amongst other things, he is handling translation rights for Arabic Countries, Asia (Central, South, Southeast and East), Greece and Turkey, as well as domestic rights.

Sebastian Posth, managing director at publishing data networks GmbH

Posth has been working as a publisher, consultant and entrepreneur in the publishing industry since 2004 with a strong focus on eBooks, digital distributions, eBook retail marketing and data monitoring. Founder and CEO of Germany’s first eBook distributor and conversion house, from 2009 to 2011, he has worked as the director, digital content distribution at Arvato (Bertelsmann).

Ronald Schild, managing director, MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH, Germany

Schild studied business administration in Germany, France and Great Britain. He began his career as a product manager in the consumer goods business in London. In 1977, he moved to Frankfurt to head the new e-business division of the German branch of Lexmark. Since 2006, Schild has been managing director of the MVB Marketing-und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH, which is an economic subsidiary of the Borsenverein.

Linda Vogt, editor, Die Andere Bibliothek GmbH & Co. KG

Vogt received her MA (Magistra Artium Book Studies, Political Science, Law) from Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz) in 2009 after a study abroad at Jagiellonian-University, Krakow. In 2012, she decided to develop her editorial spectrum at Die Andere Bibliothek.