APS GROUP
CONFERENCE
2016
We are pleased to bring you the programme for the 2016 Academic, Professional and Specialist
Booksellers Group Conference which will take place on the 17-18th March at Wotton House
This year’s programme includes a keynote address by Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent offering
advice for the industry in promoting reading. Professor Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford) will speak on the Academic
Book of the Future initiative and what it means for academics and our industry. There will be two panel sessions, one on current
bookselling and publishing issues at home and in Europe and another on why print books still matter. An interactive session led
by Jennie Blake, Library Learning Development Manager at the University of Manchester, will ask you to look at the resources
you offer through the eyes of a student, and Will Bowes will present the latest industry statistics. Before that gets underway
publishers and booksellers will have a chance to break the ice in the popular speed-dating session and there will be plenty of
opportunity later on to unwind at the celebratory APS awards ceremony and dinner.
To book your place please complete and return the form overleaf
THURSDAY17TH MARCH
10.00 am – 11.30 am
Speed-dating
12.45 pm – 1.15 pm
What’s on my mind?
Three speakers share their top
industry concerns
Tim Godfray, CEO, The
11.50 am – 12.15 pm
Booksellers Association of
Great Britain and Ireland
Conference assembles
Michael van Everdingen,
Welcome from Scott Hamilton,
CEO, the Dutch
APS Committee Chairman
Booksellers Association
Update on the year in academic
Jens Viltoft, CEO,
bookselling, focusing on
Stakbogladen A/S
Academic Book Week
(booksellers), Denmark
Conference Chairman:
Richard Fisher
1.15 pm – 2.15 pm
11.30 am – 11.50 am
Coffee / networking break
12.15 pm – 1.15 pm
Keynote talks
12.15 pm – 12.45 pm
The Power of Reading
Some practical messages
for the industry
Frank Furedi, Emeritus
Professor of Sociology,
University of Kent
Lunch
2.15 pm – 2.35 pm
Key statistics for
the academic
season 2014 – 2015
Will Bowes, President,
APD Division, Publishers
Association and Legal
Counsel, CUP
2.35 pm – 3.15 pm
Key industry issues
3.45 pm – 4.45 pm
Break-out session
Panel session
Chaired by Clark Herman,
independent consultant
The People’s Network
This year, the groups
will be invited to choose
two free topics to discuss.
Textbook Piracy
Claire Anker, Digital
Infringement Manager,
The Publishers Association
Copyright Licencing
Mat Pfleger, Managing
Director, the Copyright
Licensing Agency
Text and Data Mining
Jonathan Griffin, Head
of Digital Services, Publishers
Licensing Society
4.45 pm – 5.15 pm
Chairmen of break-out
sessions feed back key
points to conference
6.45 pm – 7.30 pm
Drinks reception for
first-timers
7.30 pm
onwards
Awards Dinner
and Ceremony
3.15 pm – 3.45 pm
Tea
FRIDAY18TH MARCH
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Keynote of the day
The Academic Book
of the Future initiative
Professor Kathryn Sutherland,
Professor of Bibliography
and Textual Criticism,
University of Oxford
10.00 am – 10.30 am
How students make
sense of publishers’
products
Jenny Blake, Library Learning
Development Manager at the
University of Manchester,
takes the delegates through
some of the products they
sell through students’ eyes
10.30 am – 11.00 am
Coffee
11.00 am – 11.30 am
Why print books still matter
Panel session
Kathryn Sutherland, Jennie
Blake, Andrew Robinson,
Director of HE, Cengage
Learning, and a student
11.30 am – 12.00 noon
Bookseller / Publisher
dialogue
12.00 noon – 12.15 pm
Closing Remarks,
APS Committee Chairman
12.15 pm – 1.15 pm
Lunch
1.15pm – 1.45 pm
Booksellers AGM
ADVANCE BOOKING FOR THE ACADEMIC, PROFESSIONAL
AND SPECIALIST GROUP CONFERENCE, THURSDAY 17TH
AND FRIDAY 18TH MARCH, AT WOTTON HOUSE, DORKING
REGISTRATION FORM
Name
PAYMENT DETAILS
Company
Delegate fees include all business sessions, one night’s
accommodation with breakfast, all lunches and refreshments
throughout the business programme, entry to the APS BA
Awards Ceremony and Dinner on the evening of 17th March.
The BA will book all hotel accommodation.
Position
Address
Postcode
Telephone
Fees
BA Members Full Conference Early Bird:
(Bookings received before 10th February 2016)
Member Full Conference: £365 + VAT @ 20% = £438
BA Members Full Conference:
Member Full Conference: £445 + VAT @ 20% = £534
e-mail
BA Associate Member Full Conference:
Associate Member Full Conference: £470 + VAT@20% = £564
Are you attending the Conference for the first time?
YES NO
BA Non Members Full Conference:
Non Member Full Conference: £495 + VAT @20% = £594
Do you have any special dietary requirements?
YES NO
Additional Night’s Stay (Wednesday Night B&B):
£110 + VAT @20% = £132
(for those wishing to arrive the night before)
If yes, please list them:
BY CHEQUE
SPEED-DATING (Open to Booksellers and Publishers)
Please make cheques payable to: THE BOOKSELLERS
ASSOCIATION LTD and send to Naomi Gane,
The Booksellers Association, 6 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR
Fax: 020 7421 4641 Tel: 0207 421 4693
I would like to take part in the Speed-dating session on
Thursday morning.
YES NO
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additional names from your organisation who would like to
take part too:
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