Pierre Danet, Chief Digital Officer of Hachette-Livre Group, passes away

The Federation of European Publishers is very sad to have to announce the passing away of Pierre Danet, Chief Digital Officer of Hachette-Livre Group and a long-time Board member of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). He was a founding Board member of Readium Foundation which develops open source software for EPUB and Web publishing. Pierre also drove the creation, and served as founding President, of the European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab). Pierre supported FEP works when we had to deal with technological issues. He will be greatly missed.