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Jens Klingelhöfer, Bookwire.deUlrich Klopotek, KlopotekMandy Knight, PADenis Kotov (Russia)Miha Kovac, Mladinska Kniga & University of LjubljanaInge Kralupper, Hauptverband des österreichischen BuchhandelsBjarke Larsen, BogMarketed Denmark,Arnaud Lavalette, SNE (French syndicate)Albrecht Lempp (+, Poland)Daniel Lenz, buchreportSiviu Lupescu, Polirom publisherJo Lusby, Penguin ChinaEric Marbeau, Gallimard,Stefano Mauri, GeMS,Kat Meyer, ConTec Frankfurt Book FairJim Milliott, Publishers WeeklyGeza Morcsanyi Magvető publisherJohannes Neufeld, BoersenvereinFabian Niebling, Libri.deJonathan Nowell, Nielsen Book ScanHong Ouyang, ChinaBas Pauw, Dutch Leteren FondsAngus Philipps, Oxford Brookes UniversityFabrice Piault, Livres HebdoOlga Ro, Book Industry MagazineRenato Salvetti, EdigitaRonald Schild, LibrekaChristian Schniedermann, WeltbildAlexandra Shipetina, EksmoGeorge Slowik, Publishers WeeklyCora Stephan (Germany)Peter Swienkels, KoboPatricio Tixis, PlanetaVesselin Todorov, Ciela NormaCecilia van Dalen, Dutch Publishers AssociationLen Vlahos, BISGAlexander Voropaev, Federal Agency for Press and MassCommunication (Russia)Paula Vrolijk, Dutch Publishers AssociationJoe Wikert, Olive SoftwareThomas Wilking, buchreportGabriel Zafrani, Syndicat national de l'éditionMagdalena Zając, Empik Poland,Lisa Liping Zhang (China)About the authors of thisreportRüdiger Wischenbart is a publishing consultant based inVienna, Austria, specializing in international and digitaldevelopments in the publishing and other cultural industries.He also researched and (co-) authored the GlobalPublishing Markets survey for the International PublishersAssociation (IPA), and the Global Ranking of the PublishingIndustry.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 trademagazine PublishNews and its English-language sister,www.publishnewsbrazil.com[PublishNews Brazil], and heis a council member at Digital Book World.Miha Kovac started his career in 1985-86 as Editor-in-Chiefof Mladina, the only opposition paper in that time in Yugoslavia.In the 1990s, he moved to book publishing andbecame Editor-in-Chief of Mladinska knjiga, the biggestSlovene book publishing house. In 2000, he started toteach publishing at the University of Ljubljana, and haswritten extensively on publoishing and on Slovenian politics.He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science. In2010, he returned to book publishing as head of digitaldevelopment at Mladinska knjigaVeronika Licher is a publishing consultant as well as a commissioningand copy editor based in Germany. Fluent in110 The Global eBook Report