The Director of the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication, Claire Squires, recently returned from Oslo where she was an invited speaker at a seminar on ‘The International Publishing Industry: Contemporary Perspectives’.

The seminar, organised by the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, brought together a number of scholars who are engaged with examining the contemporary publishing industries around the world from a number of perspectives. The academics from Norway, Sweden, Austria, Slovenia and the UK were joined by a number of publishers, booksellers and writers to discuss overall trends in international publishing, publishing in different international contexts, the future of publishing in the digital world, and cultural policies and authors’ and publishers’ rights.