Peter (and our team!) would love to talk about the work we do at DK, and the startup and implementation of turning a traditional publishing company onto its head to become an innovative digital content supplier and producer of some really great digital products in the past few years. We’d also love to connect to developers, share tips and showcase some of our products

Questions Answered:
What ways have you used your book content to create digital products? And how have you managed that shift? Where do you see traditional publishers heading? Is the role of the publisher becoming more like an agency? In which ways do you licence content to developers? Tell us about your APIs?

New players are disrupting book publishing. East London is a centre for such innovations, with publishers, technologists, start-ups and designers experimenting with creative models. The book is now not constrained to reading and text. It’s about different sectors and industries coming together: from broadcast and film, to gaming and mobile.

These new players are working in ways unfamiliar and alien to much of the established publishing industry. They’re moving faster, innovating products and features, and are capable of creating new revenue streams. Media Futures <http://www.mediafutures.org.uk/> examines how cross-disciplinary collaboration and rapid innovation models can revolutionise publishing.

We will present current trends, illustrated by examples from innovators who are demonstrating the potential of digital publishing.

Questions Answered:
How are new players disrupting book publishing?
What are the key developments being pioneered in the future of the book?
How are different disciplines collaborating around future book concepts?
What are some key examples of publishing innovation?
Which models of innovation are being used successfully around books?
What are the key business models that are emerging around the future of publishing?