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Table 2 – Thursday, December 12, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Digital book market and self-publishing Discussion about the role of ebooks in the literary market and the use of digital formats as a possibility for self-publishing. Moderation: Guilherme Sobota @gsobota A journalist graduated from UFPR, Guilherme Sobota began his career at Jornal Cândido, part of the Paraná Public Library. After working as a political press officer, he moved to São Paulo, where he completed his internship at Estadão in 2013, and was hired shortly thereafter. At the newspaper, he was a reporter for Caderno 2 for seven years, covering the publishing market and literature, as well as music, cinema, TV, and visual arts. In 2021, he was the communications coordinator for the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo and, later, a freelance journalist for newspapers, magazines, and reading clubs. Since 2022, he has been editor-in-chief at PublishNews. She is currently also a master's student in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the School of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). Guests: Antonio Hermida Antonio Hermida is the audio manager at Bookwire Brazil. Previously, he was in charge of production and content at Storytel and coordinated digital departments at Cosac Naify, Zahar and Sesi-SP/Senac-SP. As a consultant, he has developed and adapted projects for various digital formats for publishers such as Todavia, Carambaia, Companhia das Letras, Globo, Intrínseca, among others. Joana de Conti @joanadeconti Joana De Conti has been working with digital books for over ten years. She began her career producing e-books, worked for a few years at one of the largest Brazilian publishers and is currently the head of the Publisher Relations and Services team at Bookwire Brazil. Her job is to lead the service for almost 800 publishers of different sizes and genres. Her main experience is with e-books, but she is directly involved in the distribution of e-books, audiobooks and print on demand, helping publishers to improve the digital space and the performance of their catalogs. Vanessa Passos @vanessapassos.voz Vanessa Passos is a writer, screenwriter, professor of creative writing, PhD in Literature (UFC) and post-doctorate in Creative Writing (PUCRS), under the guidance of Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. She is the creator of the 321escreva Program, the Best Sellers Method, the National Meeting of Writers and the Voz Empreendedora Mentorship. She leads a community of writers that has a voice in more than 9 countries, guiding hundreds of writers to write, publish and promote their books. Author of the collection of short stories A mulher mais amado do mundo (The most beloved woman in the world) (2020). Her debut novel A filha primitivo won the Kindle Literature Prize (2021), the Jacarandá Prize (2022), the Mozart Pereira Soares Literature Prize (2023) and will be adapted for the cinema by Modo Operante Produções, now published by José Olympio. She is a columnist for PublishNews.