It could be the best of times but mostly it’s the worst of times, at least as viewed for the majority of this morning’s opening conference panel at BEA featuring a variety of executives from across the business: Moderator Jonathan Galassi from FSG, Esther Newberg at ICM, Bob Miller at Workman, author and Authors Guild president Scott Turow, Skip Prichard at Ingram, and David Shanks at Penguin USA. For the better part of the one-hour and twenty-minute session, most panelists–with no offense a senior, and not exactly youthful group–were weighed down by the challenges and obstacles of the digital transition […]
