This afternoon’s panel discussion sounded an optimistic note (one attendee called it “the most hopeful panel he’d heard in the last 2 years”) for publishing’s ability to be nimble on non-traditional book deal models, and moderator Lorraine Shanley took her panelists – HarperStudio’s Bob Miller, Mary Ann Naples of Creative Culture, Ira Silverberg of Sterling Lord Literistic and Vanguard’s Roger Cooper — through a series of questions addressing profit-sharing, increased author marketing, and how to make publisher, author, and agent happy with so many possible models in play – or potentially in the works. Caveat: these notes were more or […]
