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The Conference Dinner will be held in The Drawing Room in Abden House. The venue is conveniently located at 1 Marchhall Crescent in Pollock Halls at The University of Edinburgh. Abden House is a grand Scottish baronial-style mansion. It offers magnificent views over beautiful gardens. Surrounded by mature trees, with views to Arthur’s Seat, these gardens feel as if they’re in the heart of the countryside, rather than in the middle of a capital city.

For more information please see the Conference website.

Accommodation for the 2009 Book Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.

John W. Warren, RAND Corporation, UK
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John W. Warren is Director of Marketing, Publications, at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research institute that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. John has nearly two decades of experience in the publishing industry, with special focus on marketing and digital publishing. Previously, John managed marketing efforts for Mexican publisher Fondo de Cultura Económica, Sage Publications, and Sylvan Learning, Inc., and has provided consulting services to firms seeking to expand business in Mexico and South America. He has presented at major publishing conferences in the United States and internationally. He has a Masters in International Management from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego.More…

Bill Bell, Centre for the History of the Book, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Bill Bell is Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at The University of Edinburgh where he teaches in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. He specialises in Nineteenth Century literature and culture and has written extensively on the sociology of the text, the history of the book, and theories of cultural production. He has held visiting posts at The Australian National University, The University of Ottawa, and St John’s College, Oxford. More…

Gobinda Chowdhury, Professor, Information and Knowledge Management Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Technology Sydney, Australia.

Gobinda Chowdhury is a Professor within the Information and Knowledge Management programme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University Technology Sydney, Australia. After acquiring an honours, a postgraduate and two PhD degrees, he worked as an academic and a researcher in different parts of the world for nearly two decades. Before joining UTS, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, and prior to that an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. More…

Michael Fraser, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Michael Fraser is a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His areas of expertise include copyright law, copyright licensing, communications and media law, and digital and content and e-commerce. More…