Claire Squires, Director of Stirling Centre of International Publishing and Communication, has been asked to speak at the forthcoming World Book Summit 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia in March.

She will be appearing alongside speakers including Francis Galloway, Roger D Sell, Rudiger Wischenbart and Mike Shatzkin. The Summit will discuss current issues in the publishing industry, including electronic and print books, changing business models in publishing, state subsidy in publishing, digital reading, and translation and cultural exchange.

She will also be promoting the Slovene-language edition of her book Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain, which has just been published in Slovenia.