Digital Publishing Asia Pacific 2010

Traditional publishing industry ushers in the new surge of digitization after completing the evolution from "type and fire" to "laser and electronics". On the strength of the advantage of modern high-tech information technology and on the basis of traditional publishing industry, digital publishing has moved into the rapid development stage by virtue of the vigorous support from the government as well as the active promotion by the enterprises within the industry. Chinese digital publishing industry has registered output of RMB53 billion by the end of 2008, with a year-on-year increase of 46.42%. The Chinese telecom company, which boasted 513.5 million subscribers as of the end of October 2009, already offers e-readers in China and sells e-books on its Mobile Market online store. The number of individual e-reading terminals in China has exceeded 0.18 billion and the population of phone netizens has amounted to 50 million by now.

Digital Publishing Asia Pacific 2010 is specially designed for publishers and distributors, software and hardware companies, telecommunication companies, digital retailers and other leaders of the digital publishing industry. It examines, explores and debates the hot-button issues facing the Publishing and Telecommunication industry in today's digital media world. It provides you with a golden opportunity to meet the top-level policy-makers and executives, and to truly understand the current developmental and strategic direction of publishing industry from viewpoints across the world. Also, it presents the rare chance to meet digital media gurus to discuss cutting-edge innovations and exciting business ventures.

Nie Zhenning
President
China Publishing Group

Dev Ganesan
President & CEO
Aptara

Margaret Seale
Managing Director
Random House Australia

Maurice Kwong
Managing Director
Springer Asia

Huang Guorong
Deputy General Secretary
Publishers Association of China

Shasha Chang
CEO
Wolters Kluwer China

Jo Lusby
Managing Director
Penguin North Asia

Steve Potash
Chairman & CEO
OverDrive, Inc.

Hugo Zhang
CEO
Elsevier Science & Technology China

Alex Yeh
Secretary-General
Taiwan Digital Publishing Forum

Richard Wan
CEO
E-Book Systems Asia

Liu Yingjian
Chairman of the Board
Hanwang Technology Co.,Ltd.

Sameer Shariff
Founder & CEO
Impelsys Inc.

Mikio Amaya
President
Papyless Co., Ltd.

Zhang Li
Director of Digital Publishing Research Center
Chinese Institute of Publishing Science

Shinya Nozaki
President
Celsys, Inc.

Tang Chao
President
Dragonsource Group

Zhao Ge
CEO
Beijing Founder Network & Beijing Founder Apabi

Hou Xiaoqiang
CEO
Shanda Literature

Yang Hong
President
Guangzhou Jinchan Software R&D Center Co.,Ltd.

Gao Nianshu
General Manager of Data Department
China Mobile

Tong Zhilei
Chairman & CEO
Chineseall

Michael Smith
Executive Director
International Digital Publishing Forum

Chris Boughton
Managing Director
Cambridge University Press Asia Pacific

Jim Sun
Founder & CEO
HiAchieve Digital Technology

Publishing in the digital era: the transformation & its coping strategy
Finding the best profit model for digital publishing
Global eBook sales and distribution channel strategies
E-reader development prospect
Cross platform publishing
Discussing the standardization of eBook format
Chinese government policies on digital publishing
Creating industry chain for eBook reading
How can DRM (Digital Rights Management) generate more revenue
Mobile phone reading to boost digital publishing
Digital media publishing
Application of online content delivery technology
Best practices in XML solution
The impact of digital publishing on education
Mobile publishing market environment in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong
How digital publishing is evolving in 3G era

Learn how major innovation breakthrough in digital publishing industry will increase your revenue stream. Your most immediate business questions are being tackled by an unrivalled line-up of speakers and panel members.

Examine the status quo of digital publishing and be a part of its future

Learn about the successful profit models employed by digital publishing pioneers

Take away actionable ideas to help generate more revenue from digital publishing

Network with 200+ industry leaders in digital publishing around the world

Establish partnership with local organizations to expand your business to Asia and China

Benchmark your company’s performance against others