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I’m very pleased to be taking part in the London Book Fair’s third annual digital conference, Strategies for Transformation, which takes place at Earl’s Court on Sunday 18 April. I’m going to be chairing the final session, which is looking at the changes which digital introduces to publishing companies — and in particular how to move from innovating at the leading edge to making digital part of the core activity of a business. I’ll post again when the panellists for the session are confirmed, but in the meantime information on the conference is available here.

Then on the Wednesday of the Fair I’m going to be participating in a panel on some of the hot issues surrounding ebooks. It’s chaired by Laurence Kaye, and my fellow panellists are Richard Charkin of Bloomsbury and Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions.

I spent this morning at the Publishers Association’s Blue Skies and White Clouds: Ebook Strategies for 2010 and Beyond conference, which was full of extremely interesting views and opinions — some of which I’ve tried to summarise below.

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