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If you’re struggling with just whatthe relatively new concept of the "entrepreneurial author" means, there's nobody better to ask than Bookigee founding CEO Kristen McLean.

The advent of digital media has presented educational publishers with opportunities not only for the delivery of effective teaching and learning solutions, but also with significant challenges that are well known by readers of this column. These challenges include the need to acquire new competencies within the organizations, the creation of new partnerships with service providers and the need to sort through a range of technical issues.

With less than two weeks until the Publishing Business Conference & Expo, we're eager to share with you what's new at this year's conference. In addition to the traditional Book and Magazine sessions, we're excited to introduce the new STM and Scholarly track, in which speakers will cover topics including: agile content management, UX, personalization, multi-channel delivery systems, data analytics, and more.

There are only three weeks left until the Publishing Business Conference & Expo is under way! In anticipation of the over 100 speakers participating in our three-day conference (beginning Monday September 23^rd), we'd love to introduce you to some of them in our ongoing speaker Q&A series.

Dramatic changes in the publishing landscape mean that the most widely implemented version of ONIX, ONIX 2.0, is not well-fitted to today's global book business.