Our big Publishers Launch BEA Conference on Wednesday, May 29 is a little over a week away (and for many people, their BEA planning starts in earnest right about now). This time we're specifically trying to focus on things foremost on convention-goers minds, even though they can be tricky to…
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BISG Looks to Update Mission for Changing Times
At the close of Wednesday's Making Information Pay conference, current BISG (Book Industry Study Group) chairman and Hachette Book Group president Ken Michaels addressed the importance of industry cooperation, particularly now that a simple "linear, rational, supply chain that we recognize and understand...no longer exists." He asked, "the most important…
The Big Questions
Our Publishers Launch Conference BEA, on Wednesday, May 29 aims to bypass the usual cross-section of digital fragments and aim straight at the issues on people's minds and of greatest strategic consequence right now. So we'll evaluate the coming Penguin Random House merger from a number of angles, along with…
O'Reilly Discontinues TOC Conferences & Website
O'Reilly will end its Tools of Change Publishing conferences after seven years of operating in several cities, including New York, Frankfurt, and Bologna. In addition, the companion website will also close, and TOC co-chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert will leave the company. "The decision to discontinue a popular conference…
A Correction and An Extension
Due to an error at an outside registration vendor, the price for our big Publishers Launch BEA Conference on May 29 was prematurely raised to full list yesterday. On behalf of BEA and PLC, we apologize for the mistake. That mistake has been corrected and to make up for the…
Learn, and Save
This is our final reminder that after today, the early enrollment savings on our big Publishers Launch BEA conference on Wednesday, May 29 expire and tickets go to full price. The event features a timely and strategic focus on the big issues that matters most right now and going forward: Scale…
Pre-London Dealmaking Is Moderate As the Money Goes to Fiction
It's time for our annual look at dealmaking activity in advance of the London Book Fair and as usual, we keep trying to find ways of looking at our deal report data that can reveal meaningful patterns rather than slight statistical oddities. It's hard, because every weekday brings an average…
The Digital Combo Pass Returns
Some of our readers have either this month's Bologna Book Fair or next month's London Book Fair up next on their agendas, but with hints of spring in the air, Book Expo America (BEA)--beginning May 29--isn't all that far away. We'll hold our Publishers Launch BEA Conference on the day…
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