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E-Book Distribution and Indie Presses Webcast Set for Tuesday
Tomorrow, June 21, is the next Webcast in the monthly Digital Book World/Publishers Weekly series. Set for 1 p.m. EDT, E-book Distribution for Indie Publishers will examine how indie presses with limited resources can most effectively take advantage of the explosive growth in e-book sales. Featured panelists are John Oakes, cofounder of the digital-first startup OR Books; industry consultant Tom Woll; and Adam Salomone, associate publisher of The Harvard Common Press, and responsible for the company’s digital strategy. DBW’s Matthew Mullin will moderate.
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There Are No Silly Tweets: Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters Conference New York
The 140 Characters Conference, internet entrepreneur Jeff Pulver’s free-wheeling presentation of the endless ways that Twitter and social media are transforming contemporary life, returned to New York’s 92nd Street Y with its usual frenzied combination of visionary social transformation and no-nonsense marketing strategies. Among the many and varied presenters this year were Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, N.J.; Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and Ian J. Spector, the web entreprenuer, cognitive neuroscientist, and author, who wrote a series of books based on hilarious fake facts about actor Chuck Norris that have sold millions of copies.
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BEA 2011: New Kobo and Other Points Rise Up at IDPF
The morning session at this year's Digital Book 2011, the International Digital Publishing Forum's annual conference, held in conjunction with BookExpo America, was highlighted by Kobo v-p Michael Tamblyn's announcement of a new $130 e-ink touchscreen reading device coming from Kobo in June. The audience at the packed event was also treated to a smart and mildly contentious discussion between the panelists on the publishers' round table—Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, and Richard Nash—as they surveyed their own experiences grappling with the changes sweeping over an industry in transition to digital delivery.
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Code Meet Print NY: Cold Beer, Power Point and the Future of Reading
This recent meetup event offered a smart and informal gathering focused on “the intersection of texts + tech” with presentations from several literary/digital startups focused on creating new interfaces and business models for reading.
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BISG’s Making Information Pay: Digital Workflows, Rights Management and The Future of Publishing
In his keynote to this year’s Book Industry Study Group’s Making Information Pay conference, Hachette COO Ken Michaels used his company as an example of a “21st century content provider,” detailing Hachette’s embrace of the digital transformation and outlining the critical steps that enabled its implementation. But it was BISG’s joint survey on rights management systems (or the lack of them) that provided the day’s most compelling presentation, offering a sobering assessment of the state of rights management in legacy book publishing, a situation described as “a vast problem.”
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Bologna 2011: Surveying the Digital Landscape for 'Generation Angry Birds'
From O'Reilly Media's Joe Wikert's opening remarks saying "it's all about storytelling" to Mondadori's Laura Donnini ending comment of "We sell dreams," content was the word participants kept coming back to, at the inaugural Tools of Change Bologna, the day before the opening of the Bologna Book Fair.
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SXSWi: All We Got Was a Bunch of New Paradigms
The term "publishing" has become a charged word. And it's more than just semantics. To those in the traditional publishing industry—we found ourselves having to say "traditional publishing" often at South by Southwest Interactive's whirl of seminars, panels, and meetups—a publisher is a company that publishes books.
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Eureka! Looking For Comics at SXSW
While the number of panels weren’t huge, comics as well as comics creators and fans were much in evidence at this year’s SXSW Interactive festival. From comics-identified culture stars like filmmaker Robert Rodriguez to comics writers Greg Rucka and Greg Pak, the medium was celebrated, cited for an ability to creatively engage readers and hailed as a critical aspect of contemporary culture and storytelling.
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SXSW: Thinking Beyond Publishing to Storytelling
In PW's first trip to SXSW, we came to the Interactive portion of the days-long event in Austin wondering how best to tackle a show featuring an endless stream of panels, talks, and parties.
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SXSWi Preview: What To Do at This Year's Show
This year marks PW’s first trip to SXSW, as Calvin Reid and Rachel Deahl and as many as 12,000 other tech and new media-minded attendees descend on the combined Interactive, Film and Music festivals in Austin.
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Turning Digital into Dollars
The Engage! Expo 2011, a conference and trade show focusing on tools and strategies for reaching consumers through mobile apps, social networks, online gaming, and other digital content, offered some glimpses into how companies are monetizing their digital initiatives.
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Entrepreneurs at Tools of Change
Besides an avalanche of programming and keynote presentations, O'Reilly Media's recent Tools of Change Conference also featured about 35 exhibitors in two locations in the Sheraton Hotel in New York as well as panelists and roving bands of digital entrepreneurs looking to show off their Web sites, applications, and business models. PW was able to talk to a few of them and take a look at their platforms.
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'Writer's Digest' to Sponsor Webinar on Borders Bankruptcy and Writers
F+W Media, publisher of the Writer's Digest, is sponsoring a free webinar on the Borders bankruptcy and how it will affect writers. "The Borders Dilemma: What the New World Order of Bookselling Means for Writers," a 60-minute webinar, will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, February 25.
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Tools of Change Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Last week's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference at the Sheraton in New York City marked the pioneering digital publishing conference's fifth anniversary, with the show on an upward growth trajectory not unlike that of the e-book.
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PW At Tools of Change 2011
All of our coverage from the Tools of Change 2011 conference.
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Tools of Change 2011: Technology and the Future of Storytelling
As attendees were learning the details about Borders's bankruptcy filing, O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference was winding down three days of programming with a slate of panels that included a look at the rise of Transmedia storytelling and presented a new generation of online literary ventures that offer a glimpse at the future of reading. Indeed, despite a crowded calendar of digital conferences, this year’s TOC sold out completely, attracting 1,400 attendees, and the event’s popularity, utility, and cachet only seemed to grow.
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Tools of Change 2011: Old Pros, New Tools and the Future of Publishing
Still buzzing from author Margaret Atwood’s keynote presentation, O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference spent the rest of Tuesday doing what it does best: offering up a slate of presentations crowded with knowledgeable professionals. Tuesday’s panels featured a lineup of chief technology officers from O’Reilly, HarperCollins, and Reed-Elsevier discussing the future of e-books; a slate of booksellers offering the best ways to sell them; and a much anticipated evening keynote offering a “Unified Field Theory of Publishing,” from consultant Brian O’Leary.
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Tools of Change 2011: At Morning Keynote, Margaret Atwood Reminds Attendees Change Can Be Bad
Amid the usually tech-oriented publishing talks, the audience welcomed Atwood like a breath of literary fresh air. But, unlike another acclaimed literary giant, John Updike, who famously railed against technology at BEA in 2006, the bestselling Atwood was humorous and insightful, and did not take issue with the culture of technology, but with the economic uncertainty the digital transition is causing for authors and publishers.
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