" Under the theme "Face out: Strategies That Work and Why", she will comment as one of the most widely recognised trailblazers in the English-language industry.
She was the first female worldwide c.e.o. of a major publishing force, HarperCollins, from 1997 to 2008, but Friedman says she carefully deferred in the UK to Victoria Barnsley. "I wanted her to be the c.e.o. of the Commonwealth, as we say," she recalls, "so I haven't really done much speaking in London."
Deep into a career that started in 1968 and spans what were arguably publishing's most tumultuous decades, Friedman has a lot to say. After all, she is building what may become her most lasting legacy: a digitally eternal backlist for a worldwide readership. Her Open Road Integrated Media is best understood as a verb-a convincing demonstration of how to open a road; how to clear new digital territory for publishing into the future.
