作者: Miha Kovac

Rüdiger Wischenbart is a publishing consultant based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in international and digital developments in the publishing and other cultural industries. He also researched and (co-) authored the Global Publishing Markets survey for the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry. He serves as a Director for international affairs to Book Expo America, and a Director of Publishers” Forum, Berlin. Carlo Carrenho is a publishing consultant, trade journalist, and Digital Future Enthusiast, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the founder of the Brazilian book online trade magazine Publish News, and its Englishlanguage sister, Publish News Brazil, and he is a council member at Digital Book World. Miha Kovac started his career in 1985-86 as Editor-in-Chief of Mladina, the only opposition paper in that time in Yugoslavia. In the 1990s, he moved to book publishing and became Editor-in-Chief of Mladinska knjiga, the biggest Slovene book publishing house. In 2000, he started to teach publishing at the University of Ljubljana, and has written extensively on publishing and on Slovenian politics. He holds a Ph D in Library and Information Science. In 2010, he returned to book publishing as head of digital development at Mladinska knjiga. Vinutha Mallya is the Principal Line Space Consulting, a publishing advisory based in Bangalore, India. She is contributing editor to Publishing Perspectives, a consulting editor to Mapin Publishing, and visiting faculty at the National Book Trust of India.