As book fair business unfolds in rather traditional fashion–23,000 people having meetings with each other–a number of panels aired the anxiety-making question of the digital era: Is this revolution or evolution, and who of those 23,000 survives and prospers in that transition? An international panel of executives took on that topic in one of this morning’s panels, with Penguin ceo John Makinson beginning the conversation by allowing that “I’ve never been in a revolution…but it certainly doesn’t feel like evolution when I come in to the office every day.” Makinson noted that “at every step of the way something dramatic […]
