LIBER 2017 PROFESSIONAL DAYS

Wednesday 4 October

08:30 |Meeting with the members of the United States delegation of librarians

Participants: Cristina Abelenda, Head of the Editorial Sector of ICEX Spain Export and Investments; Antonio María Ávila, Executive Director of the Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE); Margot Gómez-Arnau, Head of the Department of Cultural Industries of ICEX Spain Export and Investments; Alina San Juan, Foreign Trade Manager of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Miami

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE), ICEX Spain Export and Investment and the Spanish Economic and Commercial Office in Miami

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

(registration necessary)

09:00 |Meeting of the Ibero-American Publishers’ Group (GIE)

Chair: José Ignacio Echeverría, President of the Ibero-American Publishers’ Group(GIE)

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE) and Ibero-American Publishers' Group (GIE)

(closed event)

10:00 |Round table

The challenges of controlling content on the Internet

Participants: Lucas Blanque, rapporteur of the Law to Reform the Intellectual Property Act. Legal adviser to the Council of State; Tomás González Cueto, State lawyer and expert on the content industries; José Guerrero Zaplana, National Court Judge, specialist in administrative procedure; Óscar Sáenz de Santamaría, Director General for Cultural Industries and Book Policy of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport

Moderated by: Carlota Navarrete, Managing Director of the Coalition of Creators and Content Industries

Organised by: Coalition of Creators and Content Industries

Venue: Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 | Presentation of the Report on Academic Publishing in Spain

Presented by: Antonio María Ávila, Executive Director of the Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE); Elea Giménez, Chief Scientist of the Human and Social Sciences Centre (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and member of the Academic Book Research Group (ILIA)

Organised by: Academic Book Research Group (ILIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Discussion on the digital evolution of Spanish-speaking markets (1)

 Round table

Print first, then sell: Trends in on-demand printing in Spain and Latin America

Participants: Joan Adell, Editor of Nova Casa Editorial; Astor García, Sales Director of the distributor Asturlibros; Jaime Iván Hurtado, Managing Director of Hipertexto (Colombia); Enrique Pascual, Director of Librerías Marcial Pons; Miguel Ángel Sánchez, Managing Director of PodiPrint

Moderated by María José de Acuña, Consultant specializing in the publishing sector

Organised by: Dosdoce.com

Venue: Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 | Talk

ISBN and Dilve get up to date

Participants: Miguel Jiménez, Director, ISBN Agency

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue: Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:30 | Round table

Independent publishing and companies providing services to authors A new scenario in the publishing market

Participants: Alberto Cerezuela, Editorial Director of Círculo Rojo Editorial; Adelaida Herrera, Director of Universo de Letras (Grupo Planeta); Mireia Sainz, Imprint Manager of Caligrama (Penguin Random House Editorial Group); Montserrat Serrano, Director of Llibrería Bernat

Moderated by: Enrique Padilla, Director of Lantia Publishing

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue: Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:00 |Presentation of the Report on the financial value of editorial translation

Presented by: Carlos Fortea, President of ACE Traductores; María Romero,Senior Consultant for International Financial Analysts (AFI)

Organised by: ACE Traductores

Venue: Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 | Round table

Act 23/2011 on the Legal Deposit: possible changes to match a new publishing reality

Organised by: National Library of Spain BNE

Participants: Concepción Jiménez, Head of the Legal Deposit Service of the Biblioteca Nacional de España BNE

Moderated by: Yolanda Ruiz, Departamento de Adquisiciones e Incremento del Patrimonio de la Biblioteca Nacional de España BNE

Organised by: Biblioteca Nacional de España BNE

Venue: Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 |Round table

Ibero-American university publishing

Participants: Juan Felipe Córdoba, President of the Colombian University Press Association; Alejandro Fernández, Unebook; Sayri Karp, President of the Latin American and Caribbean University Press Association (EULAC)

Moderated by: Elea Giménez, Chief Scientist of the Human and Social Sciences Centre (CCHS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and member of the Academic Book Research Group (ILIA)

Organised by: Academic Book Research Group (ILIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 | Discussion on the digital evolution of Spanish-speaking markets (2)

Round table

Launch of the audiobook market in Spain

Participants: Iría Alvaréz, Audiobook Area Manager for Penguin Random House; Benjamín Figueres, Partner and Founder of Editorial Narratores; Daniel Font, Audiobook Area Manager for Grupo Planeta; Sergio Mejías, Partner and Founder of BlaVox; Maribel Riaza, Publisher Relations Area Manager for Storytel.es

Moderated by: Javier Celaya, Partner and Founder of Dosdoce.com

Organised by: Dosdoce.com

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 | Round table

Education and copyright

Organised by: Spanish Centre of Reprographic Rights (CEDRO)

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

12:30 | Presentation

Translating Europe. Aid for translation in the EU countries

Presented by: Directors and delegates of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Spain

Organised by: European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Spain

Venue:  Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

The problems of publishing poetry, an on-going crisis?

Participants: Marwan Abu-Tahoun, poet and singer-songwriter; Abelardo Linares, Editorial Renacimiento; Elena Medel, Editorial La Bella Varsovia; Jesús Munarriz, Ediciones Hiperión

Moderated by: Emilio Torné, Professor of Library Science and Documentation of the University of Alcalá de Henares and editor

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

The market for academic books in Spanish in the United States

Participants: Adan Griego, Stanford University; Claude Potts, Berkeley University

Moderated by:   Cristina Abelenda, Head of the Editorial Sector of ICEX Spain Export and Investments

Organised by: Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE), ICEX Spain Export and Investment and the Spanish Economic and Commercial Office in Miami

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 | Discussion on the digital evolution of Spanish-speaking markets (3)

Round table

The boom in self-publishing in Spain

Participants: Beatriz Celaya, Founder of ALT Autores publishing company; Manuel Dávila, Founding Member of Libro Portátil (México); Ángel María Herrera, Manager of the Escritor.com website; Roberto Pérez, Partner and Founder of Libros.com; Chema Rodríguez, Partner and Founder of Lantia; Enric Sagrera, Partner and Founderof Bebookness

Moderated by: Mariana Eguaras, consultant specialising in self-publishing

Organised by: Dosdoce.com

Venue: Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

The educational pact: managing change. Strategic directions for the educational content publishing industry

Participants: Education managers of the various political parties

Moderated by:   José Moyano, President of the National Association of Publishers of Textbooks and Teaching Materials (ANELE)

Organised by: National Association of Publishers of Textbooks and Teaching Materials (ANELE)

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

16:00 |Inter-sectoral Children’s and Young People’s Literature Days (1)

Organised by: General Council for Children’s and Young People’s Books

Venue:  Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

Thursday 5 October

10:00 |Round table

Spanish, an American language. Books in Spanish

Participants: J.J. Armas Marcelo, writer and Director of the Vargas Llosa Chair; Jorge Edwards, Cervantes Award (to be confirmed); Manuel Lucena, historian, former Education Counsellor for the Spanish Embassy in Bogotá and Scientific Researcher at the CCHS-CSIC Institute of History;               César Antonio Molina, poet, essayist, former Minister of Culture and former director of the Instituto Cervantes

Moderated by: Fernando R. Lafuente, Director of the “Soledad Ortega Spottorno” Spanish Centre. Fundación José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón and former director of the Instituto Cervantes

Organised by: “Soledad Ortega Spottorno” Spanish Centre. Fundación José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón

Venue:  Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 | Round table

Public digital libraries: Prospects and challenges

Participants: Ofelia Grande, Managing Director of Siruela; Arantza Larrauri, Managing Director of Libranda; Concepción Vilariño, Sub-director General for Library Coordination of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport; Jorge von Ziegler, Director General for Libraries of the Mexican Cultural Secretariat

Moderated by:   Carmen Fenoll, Director of the Palafrugell Library

Organised by: Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Discussion on the digital evolution of Spanish-speaking markets (4)

Round table

Marketing actions and pricing management in the implementation of electronic book distribution strategies

Participants: Carlos Alonso, Ediciones Pàmies; Juan Casamayor, Páginas de Espuma; Giulia Lo Monaco, Editorial Malpaso; Diego Moreno, Nórdica Libros

Moderated by:   Margarita Guerrero, Director of Bookwire Spain

Organised by: Dosdoce.com

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Second Book Marketing Days

Logistical and technological advances in promoting book sales (New CSL protocols, 24 hour service, social networks, etc.)

Initiatives for industry collaboration to support book marketing

Participants: Eva Cosculluela, Vice-President  of the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL); Francisco Martínez, President of the Book and Publication Distributors Group (ADILE); Daniel Oropesa, President of the Book Department of the Union of National Publication Distributors (UDNE); Antonio Rivero, Board member of the  Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL)

Moderated by:   José Manuel Anta, General Manager of the Federation of National Associations of Distributors of Editions (FANDE); Javier López, Technical Director of the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL)

Organised by: Spanish Association of Book Chambers

Venue:  Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Round table on children’s and young people’s books

Organised by: General Council for Children’s and Young People’s Books

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 |Presentation

Survey of Book Reading and Buying Habits in Madrid

Presented by: Paloma Sobrini, Director General for Cultural Heritage of the Community of Madrid

Organised by: Sub-Directorate General for Books of the Community of Madrid

Venue:  Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 |Round table

eBiblio: the Spanish public library electronic book borrowing service

Organised by: Sub-Directorate General for Library Coordination, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 | Discussion on the digital evolution of Spanish-speaking markets (5)

Round table

Romances: What sells best on the Internet. Lessons learned

Participants:  Joan Adell, Editor, Nova Casa Editorial; Carlos Alonso, Ediciones Pàmies; Verónica Martínez, Coral Ediciones; Elena Rodríguez, Oz Editorial and Principal de los Libros

Moderated by:   Rebecca Beltrán, Marketing Manager of Bookwire

Organised by: Dosdoce.com

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 |Round table

The transformation of the cultural market in China

Organised by: Elcano Royal Institute

Venue: Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA         

12:00|Presentation

The Internet as a sales channel for printed books Conclusions of the study of e-commerce and printed books in Spain

Presented by: Arantxa Mellado, Director of Onixsuite spain and Latin America

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

Free content vs paid content

Participants: Jesús Badenes, Director of the Book department, Grupo Planeta; Irene Lanzaco, Managing Director of the Chairmans’s Office, Prensa Ibérica; Antonio Navarrete, Managing Director of Ediciones SM; Vicente Sánchez, Managing Director of Wolters Kluwer Spain and Portugal

Moderated by:   Rosalina Díaz, Chairperson of the Madrid Publishers’ Association

Organised by: Madrid Publishers’ Association

Venue: Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

New digital publishing projects for children and young people

Moderated by:   Elisa Yuste, consultant and trainer in the field of culture, publishing, libraries and education

Organised by: Sub-Directorate General for Books of the Community of Madrid

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Discussion on the digital evolution of Spanish-speaking markets (6)    

How readers discover their next reading matter

Participants: Javier Calvo, Partner and founder of Komilibro; José Luis Rámirez, Partner and founder of Qué Libro Leo; Marc Santandreu, Partner and founder of Tekstum; Pepe Verdes, Partner and founder of Librotea; Carlos Yter, Manager of Oh!Libro, Grupo Planeta

Moderated by:   Winston Manrique, Founding Member of MMagazín

Organised by: Dosdoce.com

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

Sustainability in the publishing industry supply chain Creating shared value

Organised by: Spanish Association for Forestry Sustainability– PEFC Spain

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:15|Round table

Books and augmented reality

Participants: Esteban Anguita, Managing Director of Aumentaty; Daniel Ortega, Parramón-Paidotribo; Cristina Puig, Marketing Director of Boolino

Moderated by:   Arantxa Mellado, Director of DataLibri and Onixsuite Spain and Latin America

Organised by: Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

15:30 |Workshop

How does the Intellectual Property Act protect me? Authors’ and illustrators’ copyrights.

The quote as a binding legal tool

Participants: Marta C. Dehesa, lawyer and illustrator

Organised by: Madrid Professional Association of Illlustrators (APIM)

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA        

(closed event)

16:00 | Inter-sectoral Children’s and Young People’s Literature Days (2)

Organised by: General Council for Children’s and Young People’s Books

Venue:  Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

16:30 |Round table

Legislative needs of authors as a group

Participants: Iban García del Blanco, Secretary of Culture and Sport of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE); Eduardo Maura, MP and Spokesperson for Culture of Unidos Podemos at the Congress of Deputies; Manuel Rico, Chairman of the Professional Association of Writers of Spain (ACE); MP and Secretary General for Culture and Social Participation of the Popular Party (PP); Marta Rivera de la Cruz, , Chairwoman of the Culture Committee at the Congress of Deputies and Head of Culture of Ciudadanos (Cs);

Moderated by: Jorge Corrales, Director General of the Spanish Centre of Reprographic Rights (CEDRO)

Organised by: Writers’ Professional Association (ACE) and Spanish Reprographic Rights Centre (CEDRO)

Venue: Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

20:00 |LIBER Awards Ceremony

-Awarded for the best initiative for promoting reading in libraries open to the public Municipal Public Library System of the Concello de Oleiros (A Coruña)

-Boixareu Ginesta Award for the Bookseller of the Year: Librería Lé, Madrid

-Award for the best audio-visual adaptation of a literary work: Juan Antonio Bayona, for Un monstruo viene a verme (A monster is coming to see me)

-Award for the promotion of reading in the media: La Nueva España daily newspaper, Oviedo

-Award for a Hispano-American author: Javier Marías

-LIBER Honour: Emiliano Martínez

Organised by: LIBER

Venue:  Real Fábrica de Tapices (Calle Fuenterrabía, 2 – Madrid)

(invitation only)

Friday 6 October

09:00 | Meeting with participants in the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE)

Organised by: Spanish Cultural Action - AC/E

(closed event)

10:00 | Round table

Piracy and publishing: Pirates aren’t only in the Caribbean

Participants: Javier Díaz de Olarte, Judicial Director of the Spanish Centre of Reprographic Rights (CEDRO); Carlos Fortea, Chairman of ACE Traductores; Carlos Muñoz Viadas, Asesor Jurídico de la Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España (ACE)

Moderated by: Alicia Aza, Spokesperson for Institutional Relations of the Professional Association of Writers of Spain (ACE)

Organised by: Professional Association of Writers (ACE)

Venue: Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Round table

The role of bookshops specialising in comic books

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue: Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Round table

New technologies and promoting reading

Participants: Gemma Lluch, Titular Professor of the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació of the University of València; Luis González, Managing Director of the Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez; Sebastián G. Mouret, booktuber; Elisa Yuste, consultant for Dosdoce.com

Moderated by:   Javier Pascual, Deputy Director General for Books, Reading and Spanish Literature of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport

Organised by: Sub-Directorate General for Books, Reading and Spanish Literature of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Talk

The Protection of Intellectual Property in relation to digital technology: Links and availability on the Internet

Participants: Carmen Corral, specialist in digital law and copyright

Organised by: Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

10:00 |Round table

Books and hypermedia content

Participants: Roger Domingo, Editorial Director of Deusto/Gestión 2000/Alienta/Para Dummies/PlanetaHipermedia.com); Juan José Fraile, Founder and CEO of Vivlium; Ana López, CEO of Floqq; Arantza Larrauri, Managing Director of Libranda

Moderated by:   Antoni Ramos, Institutional Relations Director of UOC

Organised by: Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA        

11:30 |Round table

The European Directive on the Internal Digital Market

Participants: Sergio Gutiérrez, MEP for the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party; Javier Gutiérrez, ;Managing Director of Visual Management Entity of Plastic Artists (VEGAP); Caroline Morgan, General Secretary of the International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organizations (IFRRO);   Carola Streul, General Secretary of European Visual Artist (EVA)

Moderated by:   Antonio María Ávila, Executive Director of the Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Organised by: Visual Management Entity of Plastic Artists (VEGAP)

Venue: Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 |Round table

The artist’s statute

Participants: Carla Berrocal, Chairperson of the Madrid Professional Association of Illlustrators (APIM); Marta C. Dehesa, lawyer and illustrator; Miguel Teso, illustrator and spokesperson in the legal consultancy department of the Professional Association of Illustrators of Madrid (APIM)

Moderated by:   Elisa McCausland, journalist and comic critic

Organised by: Madrid Professional Association of Illustrators (APIM)

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA        

11:30 |Round table on libraries

Organised by: Spanish Federation of Archival, Library, Documentation and Museum Institutions (FESABID)

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA        

11:30 | Round table

The tale of neutral Spanish

Participants: Judith Carrera, translator and researcher; Alberto Gómez Font, philologist and copy editor;Miguel Marqués, translator; Martín Schifino, translator;

Moderated by:   Amelia Padilla, language adviser

Organised by: CompluLetras cultural collective

Venue:  Room 14.5, Hall 14, IFEMA

11:30 |Round table

International book and publishing fairs Madrid’s participation in FIL, Guadalajara

Participants: Mónica Arizcun, Manager of International Book Fairs for the Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE); Francisco de Blas, Coordinator of Madrid’s presence at the Guadalajara Fair; Mónica González, Managing Director of Narcea S. A. de Ediciones; Alberto Vicente, Executive Director of Punto de Vista Editores

Moderated by: Carmen Hervás, Deputy General Director of Libraries, Archives and Museums of Madrid City Council

Organised by: Madrid City Council

Venue:  Room 14.6, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

Building a digital market in Spanish: The creation of an Ibero-American licence

Participants: Ambassador of Colombia in Spain; Ambassador of Mexico in Spain; José Manuel G. Bravo, Corporate Director of Rights Transactions and Intellectual Property at PRISA

Moderated by:   Antonio María Ávila, Executive Director of the Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Organised by: Intellectual Property Observatory

Venue:  Room 14.2, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Round table

Translators and reviewers: friends or foes?

Organised by: ACE Traductores and Unión de Correctores

Venue:  Room 14.3, Hall 14, IFEMA

13:00 |Conference

El Librero de Gutenberg (The Gutenberg Bookseller)

Participants: Javier Calvo, Co-creator of Komilibro; Esteban Constante Méndez

Organised by: Federation of Publishers’ Guilds of Spain (FGEE)

Venue:  Room 14.4, Hall 14, IFEMA