FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) is organizing a two day programme on publishing industry. "PubliCon 2011: The Business of Publishing", scheduled on 28-29 Sept at FICCI, New Delhi, acknowledge the potential of publishing industry

Issues such as the national book promotion policy, IPR issues, digital publishing, rejuvenation of libraries, export potential of the industry and children’s publications will be discussed at length at the event

"India ranks third after U.S.A. & U.K. in English language publications with the market Size  estimated at Rs 10,000 crores. Only 7 per cent of the sales in the industry comes from the organized sector. India exports to over 150 countries.The exports of books and publications are estimated at ' 944.44 crores," said Sumeet Gupta, additional director, FICCI.

The objective of the programme is to address key policy and regulatory issues of publishing industry. The conference will also deliberate on trade related issues. It will serve as an ideal platform to ideate, discuss, network and explore business possibilities. There would be an opportunity to share best practices as well. The idea is to create an annual programme which entire publishing fraternity will look forward to.

The session on digital publishing will discuss the possibility of India becoming an e-Publishing base in the near future considering the fact that the publishing industry has been witnessing a paradigm shift from print to digital publishing.

How to tap the global opportunities regarding children content will be discussed in the session 'Comics & Children’s Book Publishing – A huge Market'.

About 'Managing IPR in Publishing'- the session on IPR, Gupta said,"Without a functional copyright system, the development of a vibrant national publishing industry would be severely hampered. Piracy is another big issue which is hampering the growth of the industry. The session will discuss how to tackle with such issues."

FICCI is expecting a good gathering of policy makers, authors, publishers, designers & Illustrators and editors at the event.