Event Reports

BIC BATTLE OF THE LIBRARY SYSTEMS! Guest Speaker Mick Fortune sums up the debate

A BIC event held 28th November 2012CILIP Building, London THE MOTION: “Open source is about distributed innovation and will become the dominant way of producing software” “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from man to pig again; but already it was impossible to say which was which”…

BIC AT FRANKFURT 2012 – BIC’s Consultant Simon Edwards on this year’s Book Fair

Frankfurt 2012 was its usual busy self, large crowds, queues to get into Halle Acht, long but generally productive meetings, announcements, poor hotels and late nights.But over the years it has become something of a habit to go, meet with people we could probably have seen in the UK and have amazingly productive and positive…

10 lessons from BIC’s New Trends in Publishing Seminar 2016

Attending an event on ‘new trends’ seems apt at this time, just as everyone is ramping up on their Frankfurt preparation. We took away much more than 10 lessons from this jam-packed morning – but thought 10 might just whet your appetite for now. Ruth Jones (Publisher Business Development, Ingram Content Group): Richard Orme (Chief…