Bodour Al Qasimi on Sustainability: ‘Collaboration is Critical’īodour Al Qasimi gives the opening address at the 2023 Sharjah Booksellers Conference. Today, in addressing booksellers from both the Arab world and far beyond, Dohle urged his audience to shake off inaccurate but dogged views of book publishing as a business doomed by digital developments and to seize achievable prospects for both book publishing and book retail in an ever-growing world reading market. Since stepping down in early December as the worldwide CEO of Penguin Random House, Dohle has found himself in constant demand as one of the most comprehensively experienced, internationally oriented, and energetically articulate ambassadors available today for the world publishing industry and its tenacity in the entertainment and cultural life of markets and nations. It was at that publishers’ conference, in fact, that Dohle spoke on the morning after Judge Florence Yu Pan’s order in the United States was issued, blocking the Bertelsmann/ Penguin Random House attempt to acquire Simon & Schuster for US$2.175 billion. And the flagship Sharjah International Book Fair in November is preceded by the Sharjah Publishers Conference. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi for a “reading emirate,” the citizens of which can engage in both the literature and the commerce of the book business.Īlso this week, the opening on Wednesday (May 3) of the 11th iteration of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival will coincide with the first presentation of a Sharjah Animation Conference, developed in collaboration with Lilium and in partnership with Bergamo Animation Days in Italy.
The program was opened, Kuo-Yu Liang hosting, with welcoming comments from Ahmed Al Ameri, chair of the Sharjah Book Authority, who pointed out that the development of this still-new component of Sharjah’s programming for the international book business is fully in line with the concept of Sheikh Dr.
“It’s exactly that guidance and orientation that’s more important than ever” as the business pulls away from the deepest pandemic years amid the rising tide of the book business’ output,
“Readers need guidance and orientation provided by publishers and retailers who help them to find their next best read,” Dohle said in his opening statement. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Andersonīy Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | Booksellers’ Essential Place in Publishing’s Bright Future In a spirited opening to the second iteration of the Sharjah International Booksellers Conference today (May 1), Markus Dohle told a gathering of several hundred people that the future is bright for the resilient book publishing industry and that book retailers can share in that upbeat assessment, thanks to their vital role in the value chain. Markus Dohle, Bodour Al Qasimi, and Ahmed Al Ameri at the opening of the 2023 Sharjah International Booksellers Conference.
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