Digital Book World 2011 Promotion

'PW' Partners for Digital Book World

Publishers Weekly has agreed to become the sole Community Media Partner for Digital Book World, the conference launched by F+W Media in January aimed at bringing the publishing and technology industries together as they navigate publishing's digital transition. The second Digital Book World is set for January 24-26 in New York and PW will help to develop programming and panels for the 2011 event.

ICv2 Confab Reports Print Sales Down; Digital Up

On the eve of New York Comic-Con, pop culture trade news Web site ICv2 released dispiriting numbers on graphic novels for the first half of 2010. While periodical comics are up about 1% for the first half of 2010, graphic novel sales are down by more than 20%. These figures were delivered as part of the first ICv2 Digital and Comics Conference.

Frankfurt 2010: Digital Meets Content at More Upbeat Show

While thousands of rights deals were concluded at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, the 2010 event will most likely be best remembered as the year fair organizers fully embraced the digital revolution. Approximately 350 panels were dedicated to digital issues.

Virtual E-Book Summit Targets Libraries

An ambitious one-day online event that featured a keynote by technologist Ray Kurzweil and more than 15 hours of presentations, "E-Books: Libraries at the Tipping Point" focused on every aspect of the developing e-book market and its impact on public, school, and academic libraries.

Change Is Good: PW Talks to Andrew Savikas

After a successful inaugural session at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change conference will return with a bigger show at the 2010 fair. Among the featured speakers are Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine.com blogger and author of What Would Google Do?; media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life, Inc.; and Richard Nash, founder of the digital startup Cursor.

Book Bloggers You Should Know

Newspapers may be continuing to cut their book coverage, but the Internet is home to an ever-expanding hive of blogs about books. Some 250 book bloggers attended the first-ever Book Blogger Convention in May, an event held at Manhattan's Javits Center the day after BEA ended.

iPads Rule at Untethered 2010

A panel of presidents of four major New York houses pronounced the book industry "healthy," while a Forrester Research analyst predicted there will likely be nearly 60 million tablet computers sold by 2015.

iPad Love and the Future of Book Publishing at Untethered 2010

Moderating a high powered panel at Untethered 2010, the latest digital publishing conference, that included the presidents of Simon & Schuster, McGraw-Hill, Perseus and HarperCollins, PublicAffairs Founder Peter Osnos said that "book publishing is not in crisis," and used his opening remarks to provide a different point of view on an industry that has been challenged by the rise of digital publishing and much criticized by new media pundits as out of touch.

Book Bloggers Take Manhattan

A swarm of book bloggers converged on Javits Center in their first convention last Friday, which drew 250 people to a day-long lineup of speakers and panels following Book Expo America. The presence of online marketing specialists from most of the major houses--and sponsorships by HarperCollins, S&S, Hachette and the Crown Publishing Group, as well as smaller publishers like Peachtree and Unbridled Books--marked the industry's embrace of the bloggers, most of whom are unpaid enthusiasts who revel in spreading the word about books they love. "The best people in the industry are getting to know the best bloggers," declared Ron Hogan, former director of online marketing strategy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

BISG Conference Message: Change or Die

Change was in the air at the Book Industry Study Group's Making Information Pay conference held Thursday in New York City. Organized around the theme of "Points of No Return," speaker after speaker said all parts of the publishing industry needed to quickly get up to speed with the changes occurring in the industry because of the digital revolution or get left behind.

PW Google Panel to Air on C-SPAN

"The Book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud," a panel discussion held as part of Publishers Weekly's Think Future discussion series this week, and sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group, will appear on C-SPAN this weekend. The panel was held at the Random House offices in midtown Manhattan, and moderated by PW features editor Andrew Albanese, with Oxford University's Evan Schnittman, Google's Chris Palma, and literary agent and digital publisher Richard Curtis participating. It will air on Saturday at 1:00 PM ET and Sunday at 3:00 AM ET.

Wharton School New York Event Tackles the Future of Publishing

At the opening session of the Wharton School's Future of Publishing conference, held April 30 at the Marriott Marquis in New York, Atria's Judith Curr offered an interesting observation. Despite all the talk in recent years about the "demise of publishing," Curr said, "everyone wants to get into it."

Hyping Books, Raising the Dead and Singing Catholic School Girls at the 140 Confab

Social media impresario Jeff Pulver returned to New York City with his140 Character Conference, a now annual 2-day event celebrating and propagating the pervasive cultural influence of social media and Twitter in particular.

PW Daily TOC Coverage

The first annual O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference brought together digital and book publishing professionals for three days of intensive and often entertaining projections about the future of publishing in the digital era.