Marguerite Joly is Head of New Business Initiatives at Ullstein Publishing in Berlin. She leads lean-publishing e-imprints “Midnight” and “Forever” and has recently launched backlist e-imprint “ReFinery”; she has brought U.S. digital reader-copy platform NetGalley to Germany as netgalley.de and is currently directing it; she has created #Herzenstage, a web-community-based festival for romance literature; and is currently re-launching and internationalising Ullstein’s web reader-community vorablesen.de which she also helms. In previous work, Ms. Joly lead development and marketing of digital publishing initiatives at epubli GmbH, and at txtr GmbH.











