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25 Oct 2011
18 Sept 2011
The last session: Managing the Translation Market
The last session of the conference dealt
with “Managing the Translation Market”. With a panel of six members and
moderator Arshia Sattar, this session tackled different aspects of translation
in the publishing industry. The moderator emphasized on the value of
translation, saying it “provides a whole new text for an audience to enjoy,
even though a few things are lost in the process.” Arunava Sinha touched upon
the market reasons for translation in India.
A representative of the National
Translation Mission, Winston Cruz explained the vision and strategy of the
organisation in his presentation. Rubin D’cruz took this opportunity to point out
that languages in translation should not be referred to as central or regional
as all are important and main languages. He also stressed on how important the
National Book Trust and Sahitya Academy were in national enterprise building.
K. Satyanarayan, a Tamil publisher in his
own right, discussed options for funding translations as well as the challenges
involved in it. Other members of the panel included Neeta Gupta of Yatra Books who
initiated the subject of tri-lingual dictionaries required in the industry, and
Judith Oriol, the Book Attachee at the French embassy in India. “French
publishers cannot ignore the Indian market anymore”, Ms. Oriol said.
A majority of the panel concluded from the
discussion that there is a need for training and infrastructure to support
translation in India today.
17 Sept 2011
Session 6: Copyrights in Publishing
The
important issue of “Copyrights in Publishing” was addressed in Session Six of
the Conference on Day 2.Panelist G. R. Raghavender,Registrar of Copyrights,
elaborated in detail on the Copyright Law and it’s Amendments till date.
Pranesh
Prakash in his presentation put forth a very interesting thought. “Each one of
us is a criminal for violating the copyright law”, he said. He pointed out that
the problem with this law is that it brings very different activities under one
banner.
Mandira Sen presented
a PowerPoint briefly explaining Section 2(m) of the Copyright Law 2010. Kannan
Sundaram gave a satirical viewpoint of Tamil publishing industry. Vinutha
Mallya chaired the session on “copyright issues in publishingWorkshop 2: Social Media Marketing
Workshop on Social Media Marketing
This workshop was handled by two social
media strategists, Maya Hemant and Maegan Chadwick-Dobson from Pratham Books
and Tara Books respectively.
The use of common social media tools
like blogs, twitter and facebook alongwith not-so-frequently used SoundCloud,
Slideshare, Youtube and so on were dealt with. The audience was advised to
devise their own unique social media strategy according to the personality of
their distinctive companies. Problems and pitfalls were also discussed and
videos were shown for better understanding of the topic.
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