Frances Pinter

Publisher · Bloomsbury Academic

New Open Content Models

Frances Pinter is the Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, a new scholarly imprint specialising in the Social Sciences and Humanities. This new publishing venture is experimenting with a variety of new business models for digital books.

She is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics where she is conducting research in the area of Intellectual Property Rights. Frances has been in publishing for most of her professional life and was the Founder and Managing Director of Pinter Publishers Ltd at the age of 23. She has been publishing books about the social and economic impact of new technologies for several decades.

In the late nineties she was Director of International Publishing at the Soros Foundation (Open Society Institute) where she founded the Centre for Publishing Development. The mission there was to promote the development of the independent publishing sector in 30 post-communist countries.  She devised the business model and launched EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries), the world largest library consortium, now covering over 50 countries. She has been a consultant to Creative Commons and explored how CC licensing might be used to promote more effective distribution of academic scholarship around the world.

Frances has a PhD from University College, London in International Relations and completed her undergraduate work at New York University and the London School of Economics.