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date Tuesday, November 27, 2007
location The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W
admission $15
doors 3:30pm
presentation 4:00pm
cash bar 5:30pm

registration

To register online, click here (Excel file). Please fax back your completed form to 416-362-5392 or contact Morgan Cowie at mcowie@booknetcanada.ca if you need assistance.

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On Tuesday, November 27, 2007
3:30pm - 6:15pm

Is it Easy Being Green? The Changing Climate of the Book Industry

About our speakers

Michael Healy is Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York, BISG was formed thirty years ago with a mission to help develop a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain. Mr. Healy has been involved extensively in the development and management of standards for the book industry and has worked in the book industry since 1983. Before taking up his current role at BISG he was for seven years Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, one of the world's leading providers of information, transaction and market-measurement services to the book trade.

Nicole Rycroft is the Executive Director of Markets Initiative, the organization devoted to Ancient Forest Friendly practice in the Canadian publishing industry. Nicole has worked as an advocate for social and environmental justice in Australia, South East Asia and Canada and brings a global perspective to the protection of ancient and endangered forest ecosystems. Her work to transform Canada's book publishing industry to use Ancient Forest Friendly papers has established a model which is being successfully replicated around the world and in other sectors. Nicole has received many awards for this cutting edge work including the Canadian Geographic's Gold 'Canadian Environment Award for Sustainable Living' in June 2006.