MARK MAJUREY

‘eCrime in Book Publishing’

Mark Majurey - Digital Development Director, Taylor & Francis Books - has 17 years experience in academic publishing, having worked across both journals and books businesses in a variety of roles in Production, Marketing and Sales. He is currently responsible for developing the digital strategy of Taylor & Francis Books.Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidly over the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher. With offices in London, Brighton, and Abingdon in the UK, New York, Boca Raton and Philadelphia in the USA and Singapore and Melbourne in the Pacific Rim, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1,400 journals and around 2,000 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 45,000 specialist titles.Taylor & Francis are the leading providers of ebooks with over 21,000 titles available in a variety of formats. Taylor & Francis Group is an Informa business. Informa plc is the global information provider for the academic, professional and commercial markets

http:// www.informa.com

BILL KENNEDY

'The Middle East Books Market - a personal  perspective'

Bill Kennedy is a Director of Avicenna Partnership Ltd  which provides marketing, promotion, sales and rights broking solutions through  exclusive representation agreements with academic, professional, reference and  scholarly publishers, which seek to develop sustainable sales growth for their  print and electronic products in all Middle East countries.Born, brought  up and educated in Edinburgh, having graduated from Napier University in 1975,  Bill has worked in a number of areas not only within the publishing industry but  also, bookselling, library supply, and consultancy. His first business trip to  the Middle East was in the capacity of as a rep for an academic publisher in  1979 - needless to say, having experienced many changes in the scale, substance  and nature of the market over those 30 years.His travel schedule takes  him to countries in what is predominantly the Arab Middle East, North Africa and  Iran for around 100 days in the calendar year.

NEIL PALFREYMAN

Thames & Hudson – 60 years of making a splash

With a career in publishing stretching back 20 years (13 of those in total at T & H), Neil was a late-starter in the industry and first joined Thames and Hudson after completing a degree course at Edinburgh’s Napier University. After working there for 30 months or so, he left to work in a succession of publishing companies ~ Dorling Kindersley, Mainstream, Pavilion ~ and prior to rejoining Thames & Hudson as Director, he was Production Director of Phaidon. With his interests firmly focused on the arts, design and architecture, he is naturally at home in T&HNeil is going to talk us through the events of the first 60 years of this family-owned company that have helped to shape the company’s development and which has firmly establish its reputation for well produced, accessible books on subjects ranging from archaeology, art, architecture, design and visual culture.

http://www.thamesandhudson.com

TIM COATES

Publishers,  Libraries, Mayhem and Mischief

 At the end of this decade, with a prevailing  wallpaper backdrop of eBooks, iPhones, falling print runs, creeping digitisation  and sizeable bookshop failures, Tim Coates is coming to The Galley Club to talk  to us about how he thinks the book will fare in libraries and elsewhere as the  next decade approaches.Bookseller; author; champion of public  libraries; publisher ~ not necessarily in  that order ~ oft-quoted in The Bookseller; he has eclectic interests,  inevitably interwoven throughout by his broad experience in our industry, as  typified by his latest book, Delane’s  War (published last October  by Biteback) about the Crimean War and in particular, the 19th-Century Times Editor John Delane and his  efforts to challenge the government of the day and their warmongering  activities. Tim has 35 years in the book trade behind him, from Sherrat & Hughes to Waterstone’s to  London Borough of Hillingdon Library Service, in all  he has achieved success in one degree or another; some might say notoriety; with a formal complaint upheld last July against the Museums, Libraries and  Archives Council about its actions regarding ­ Swindon Library Service.

MICHAEL JOHNSON

Passionate about British printing

Michael  Johnson, Chief Executive of BPIF is no slouch and is driving the BPIF forward  from a sound foundation of increased membership and resilient support for the  industry. He is coming to The Galley Club to talk to us about how our British  Industry is bouncing back from the blows dealt in the last years and what  happens nextMichael is  very active as the head of the BPIF, facing the challenges of this digital age  with initiatives such as Dotgain.org; not averse to working proactively  with Unite to pursue common goals; and is also currently President of The Printers'  Charitable Corporation.

STEVE BOHME

A short history of books and consumers

Steve Bohme is Research Director of BML and is presenting a short  history of books and consumers to The Galley Club.Steve joined BML in 1994,  became its Research Manager in 1996 and Research Director in 2001.  Since  1997, he has managed BML’s ongoing Books & Consumers survey, which  monitors British book-buying habits.  He also runs the PA Sales Monitor  (PASM) scheme on behalf of the UK Publishers’ Association, and compiles the  PA’s annual UK Book Publishing Industry Statistics Yearbook.  Over the  years, Steve has managed and worked on a huge variety of ad-hoc qualitative and  quantitative research projects on behalf of book publishers, retailers, trade  associations and arts organizations. He is a Member of the Market Research  Society (MRS).BML recently acquired by Bowker Publishing Services -  is the premier source of market information and research on the UK book industry, undertaking a wide range of private and syndicated  research projects, and publishing a variety of market reports.BML  - Growing the book market through research