**Who You Will Hear** Guest: Thad McIlroy (Principal of The Future of Publishing) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this episode, guest Thad McIlroy joins us from San Francisco and shares his research and insights on how AI is striking the revolution to book pub…

**Who You Will Hear** Guest: Matt Baehr (Executive Director of Book Manufacturers’ Institute) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Since 1933, the Book Manufacturers’ Institute (BMI) has been the nationally recognized trade association representing the book manufactur…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Michele Cobb (Executive Director of Audio Publishers Association and The Podcast Academy) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Like paper books, audiobooks and podcasts have respective awards to celebrate their excellence. In this episode,…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Karen M. Phillips (Executive Director and Publisher of Words Without Borders) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Getting curious about prose composed by a writer from a distant land in an endangered language? With Words Without Borders, …

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Esther Allen (Writer, translator. Professor at City University of New York) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Translation has long been an indispensable part of the world of publishing and literature. In this episode, we are joined by E…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Holger Ehling (Director of Holger Ehling Media) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) The guest for this episode is Holger Ehling, a journalist, author, and active organizer of specialist conferences and cultural events. Holger shares with …

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Scott Hoffman (CEO of International Literary Properties) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Purchasing rights of music works as a means of investment – as Michael Jackson did to the majority of the Beatles’ catalog, is not a novel concep…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: April O’Leary (Founder of O’Leary Publishing) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) One of the most common scenarios in traditional publishing is publishers do branding and marketing for authors and their upcoming works. But what if authors…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Sarah Russo (Founder of Page One Media) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) For many authors and independent publishers, book publicity and marketing is always a huge arena hard to measure and predict: whether to hire a publicist for a fo…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Kimberly Peticolas (Literary Agent at Rudy Agency; Independent Publishing Consultant) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) There is no doubt that literary agents have long played a vital role in the publishing world – they are the experts …

**Who You Will Hear** Guests: Ingrid Skrede (Co-Founder & CMO at Ludenso); Harald Manheim (Co-Founder & CTO at Ludenso) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Ludenso is an educational technology company located in Norway. This time, two co-founders Ingrid Skrede (Chief…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Eric Obenauf (Co-founder and Editorial Director of Two Dollar Radio) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Klopotek Publishing Radio is proud to dedicate this episode to the millions of independent publishers, independent bookstores, and th…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Bill Rojack (Vice President, National Division at Midland Paper Company) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this episode, Bill Rojack joins us to present his deep insights into printing paper and supply chain issues. We start the conv…

**Who You will Hear** (This bonus episode is recorded in German language.) Guest: Julia Reckel (Project Manager at Carl Hanser Verlag) Moderator: Petra Steinfeld ( Director at Klopotek) Moderator: Barbara Bruels ( Head of Domain TEP at Klopotek) Optimization project at one of our first customers: "Is system usage optimal and how can users generate …

**Who You’ll Hear** Guest: Bradley Metrock (CEO of Project Voice) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) The guest for this month is Bradley Metrock, CEO of Project Voice and General Partner of Project Voice Capital Partners, who joins us to discuss the ins and outs of …

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Pam French (Executive Director of Binc Foundation) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Services Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) The guest on this episode is Pam French, Executive Director of Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation – the only nonprofit in the US dedicated to …

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Kevin Hamric (Vice President of Publishing Sales at VIZ Media) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In the episode of this month, we are joined by Kevin Hamric, Vice President of Publishing Sales at VIZ Media, and this time, our conversati…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: John Rodzvilla (Professor in digital publishing at Emerson College) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Services Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In the first episode for 2022, prof. John Rodzvilla joins us to discuss digital storytelling, fiction apps, gamification, and how all…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Lattelle Solomon Reaves (Director of Diversity at Pearson) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) This month’s Klopotek Publishing Radio features Lattelle Solomon Reaves, a global DEI leader with over 25 years of experience in the publishing…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Sherri Aldis (Chief of United Nations Publications, Department of Global Communications) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In the 12th episode of Klopotek Publishing Radio, Luna and Dwayne talk to Sherri Aldis, Chief of United Nations P…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Michael Cairns (CEO & Founder of Information Media Partners) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this episode, Michael Cairns shares his experience as a consultant helping content-centric business owners transform their businesses and …

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Bodour Al Qasimi(President of International Publishers Association) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In the 10th episode of Klopotek Publishing Radio, Bodour Al Qasimi, the first president from the Arab world in the 125-year history of…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Carlo Carrenho (Head of International Business Development at StreetLib) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Services Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) This month, Luna and Dwayne talk with Carlo Carrenho about audiobook markets and subscription models in Sweden and other Nordic …

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Dr. Ruediger Wischenbart (Founder of Content & Consulting) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) We are pleased to have Ruediger Wischenbart of Content & Consulting join us to talk about change and innovation in the global book industry. Wi…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Susanne Althoff (Journalist and Professor at Emerson College) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) Journalist, professor, and author of Launching While Female: Smashing the System That Holds Women Entrepreneurs Back Susanne Althoff joins u…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Elizabeth Scarpelli (Director of University of Cincinnati Press) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this episode, director of University of Cincinnati Press Elizabeth Scarpelli shares how the press has taken a unique path to publish b…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Kris Kliemann (President of Kliemann & Company. Chair of Rights Committee, Book Industry Study Group, BISG) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this episode, Kris Kliemann shared her knowledge of publishing from a rights management poi…

**Who You will Hear** Guest: Jacks Thomas (Guest Director at BolognaBookPlus, Bologna Children’s Book Fair; Director of The London Book Fair from 2013 to 2020) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this episode, Jacks Thomas talked about her unique career journey fr…

**Who You’ll Hear** Guests: Brian O’Leary (Executive Director of Book Industry Study Group, BISG) Graham Bell (Executive Director of EDItEUR) Co-hosts: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek) In this 30-minute interview, Brian O’Leary and Graham Bell explained fundamental and important co…

**Who You’ll Hear** Guest: Robert Baensch (President of the Baensch International Group Ltd, with a focus on international publishing, start-up, and turnaround management. He is currently the Editor for the Publishing Research Quarterly journal.) Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek) Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consulta…

Welcome to the first episode of Klopotek Publishing Radio! As we stay indoors during uncertain times, we’re here staying connected with each other, sharing your stories and our stories about publishing, providing you with a fresh interpretation of publishing trends, advanced technical support, and publishing solutions. **Who You’ll Hear** Guest: Ja…