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FutureBook Live 2019 Learning Stream


Learning Stream Lessons to be learned in academic strand


With major players pivoting their strategy to embrace digital-led publishing, the education and academic sector’s vibrancy is demonstrated in a varied Learning-focused line-up


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his year’s learning stream, part of FutureBook Live, will explore critical issues in the challenging schools and Higher Education markets, bringing in major industry players as well as transformative new ventures at the forefront of change. Kicking the stream off is panel discussion


Leading from the front: how publishers can drive the Open Access debate. As the industry prepares for the launch of Plan S in January 2021, with its huge implications for research publishing, major changes are afoot for both the big science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) houses and smaller humanities and social sciences (HSS) publish- ers alike. Springer Nature’s chief publishing officer Steven Inchcoombe has become a vocal advocate of “transformative publishing”: and publishers becoming “active drivers”, rather than just “passive enablers” of OA. He’ll explain his position, and the strategies he thinks publishers have to embrace to thrive in the new landscape ahead. Meanwhile Vicky Williams, c.e.o. of social science publisher Emerald, and Richard Fisher, vice-president of the Royal Historical Societ, will also present their own perspectives and priorities in a discussion chaired by The Bookseller’s deput editor Benedicte Page. A second morning panel, Disruption


matters: how scholarly publishers have learned to adapt, chaired by academic consultant Jon White, will look at how academic and education publishers have navigated the new landscapes, including real-world examples of how the presses have innovated and adapted to new business models in order to secure their companies and take advantage of new opportunities.


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Speakers include Kathryn Earle, m.d. of the digital resources division at Bloomsbury, and Sam Herbert, co-founder of 67 Bricks. The first aſternoon session in the Learning stream will be By the book: where next for textbooks? Textbook giant Pearson announced its digital-first strategy this summer; the company’s chief strategy officer Jonathan Chocqueel-Mangan will be at FutureBook Live to tell us more about the development, and Pearson’s vision for text- books in the future. Adding broader industry perspective will be Outsell vice-president and lead analyst Kate Worlock; meanwhile, Blackwell’s c.e.o. David Prescot will give an expert retailer’s perspective; and the international schools dimension will be added by Lucy Mills, head of publishing (education) in English, humanities and languages at


The academic and education fields are facing seismic change, and publishers must make major choices as they look to help their businesses survive —and thrive Benedicte Page, The Bookseller


Cambridge Universit Press. The Bookseller’s Benedicte Page will chair. A final panel, What schools want: new


approaches in the classroom, will highlight the work of players from outside the tradi- tional publishing landscape whose initiatives are finding real traction in education. Chaired by Caroline Bayley, a former schoolteacher and now head of edtech venture Pinemarten Education, this session will explore the work of companies forging new space in UK schools and beyond: speaking will be Jonathan Seaton, c.e.o. of successful Sheffield-based educational publishing house Twinkl; Priya Lakhani OBE, c.e.o. of CenturyTech, an innovative business powered by an AI teach- ing and learning platform; Stephen Wilks, c.e.o. of Seneca Learning, which produces free revision tools; and Dr Becky Sage, c.e.o. of Interactive Scientific, a firm devoted to changing the experience of science education and research.


Page said: “The academic and education fields are facing seismic change, and publish- ers must make major choices as they look to help their businesses survive and thrive. The FutureBook Live learning stream will pick out some of the central strategic issues facing the industry, and bring together a range of indi- viduals offering innovation, new enterprise and leadership in the field.”


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