That’s the title of a press release from our owners. I will be there covering programs I think will be of interest to our readers.
Thousands of publishing executives from the book and magazine publishing industries will convene at the New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square, March 19-21, for the Publishing Business Conference & Expo—North America’s largest conference and expo of its kind.
The conference—produced by Publishing Executive and Book Business (industry-leading business)—features more than 40 sessions and nearly 100 speakers, including: David Carey, President, Hearst Magazines; Josh Tyrangiel, Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek; Josh Quittner, Editorial Director, Flipboard; David Carr, Columnist and Reporter, The New York Times; Deborah Forte, President, Scholastic Media; Marcus Leaver, President, Sterling Publishing Co. Inc. (owned by Barnes & Noble); Michela O’Connor Abrams, President, Dwell Media (who is also the conference chair); Maureen McMahon, President/Publisher, Kaplan Publishing; Peter Meirs, VP, Production Technologies, Time Inc.; Matt Bean, AVP, Mobile, Social and Emerging Media, Rodale Inc.; and Christopher McKenzie, VP & Director, Institutional Sales, Americas & EMEA, Wiley InterScience Sales, Wiley.
“This is the one conference where leaders and innovators from book and magazine publishing companies get together as an industry to share challenges, ideas and opportunities for thriving in today’s media world,” says Noelle Skodzinski, Publishing Business Conference program director, and editorial director of Publishing Executive and Book Business magazines.
Educational sessions will address dramatic shifts facing publishers, and the evolution to integrated media companies publishing content in many formats and across many platforms. Attendees will benefit from big-picture keynote addresses and panels, as well as programming that provides practical advice, such as e-book conversion workshops, a Mobile and Digital Magazine Symposium, a half-day App Forum and a Social Media Strategy intensive. Other sessions will explore The Future of E-books, International Trends in E-book Consumption, Building Diversified Revenue Streams, E-commerce Strategies, Enhancing the Value of Print Magazines, among many more high-priority topics for today’s publishing executives.
The event also features the industry’s largest expo (free for publishers to attend) of publishing solutions, services and technologies, showcasing everything from printers and paper companies to publishing workflow solutions, digital magazine and mobile content solutions, e-book conversion services, and more.
For more information or to register, visit PublishingBusiness.com.
Ask the publishers “Why should I as a reader buy a print copy when there is such a chasm created by publishers who refuse to make ebooks available to public libraries — either by non-participation or high prices?” Readers (and writers) are often born and nurtured by public libraries.
I have two questions for the big publishers:
“I am disabled and can’t read paper books. Why do the Agency 6 discriminate against disabled people by (1) windowing and (2) applying archaic ‘territorial restrictions”? Limiting the availability of ebooks only means you lose sales, and your authors lose readers.”
“WHY did Hachette and HarperCollins double ebook prices for Australians from December 2011? I buy a great many ebooks, and these extortionate prices have resulted in me abandoning authors I have followed for years.”