Sharjah 24: Mansour Al Hassani, General Coordinator of Professional Conferences at the Sharjah International Book Fair, SIBF, announced that the 14th edition of the Sharjah Publishers Conference features 1,065 publishers from 108 countries.
The conference began on Sunday with an opening speech by Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Sharjah Book Authority, followed by a discussion between Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chief digital officer at HarperCollins, and Porter Anderson, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives.
Al Hassani shared with "Sharjah 24" that the event includes 30 workshops covering topics such as publishing trends, industry challenges, marketing audio content, the use of AI in publishing, and digital distribution strategies.
The three-day conference highlighs the confidence of publishers in Sharjah's significant role in the industry.