We have added more speakers to the roster for our fourth annual Launch Kids Conference on January 13 — which kicks off what will be our biggest Digital Book World Conference + Expo yet, already breaking pre-registration records. The biggest trade conference focused on the children’s and YA market — which is accounting for all the industry’s growth this year and then some — Launch Kids provides a number of views on building new revenue streams in new ways (since as we have seen, digital opportunities in children’s publishing are primarily additive to existing markets and channels). Across 15 sessions, […]
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Launch Kids and DBW
Friday we recapped the amazing line-up of keynotes and speakers set for Digital Book World on January 14 and 15, but DBW actually kicks off on the January 13 with our fourth annual Publishers Launch Kids conference. The biggest gathering in children’s publishing to look at the business opportunities in the digital transition, this year’s program features major movement in education (from Google and News Corp.’s Amplify), as well as such new developments as the rise of online fandom; Kickstarter for children’s literature; personalization; ebook subscriptions just for children’s books; new adventures in storybuilding; and more. (A few notable panelists […]
Another Chance
As we have noted before, our sixth annual Digital Book World Conference already features our best programming line-up ever, with an amazing group of timely keynotes that includes: Russ Grandinetti at Amazon in conversation with Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader; Harper ceo Brian Murray; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ceo Linda Zecher; serial entrepreneur and bestselling author Seth Godin, bestselling authors Ken Auletta and Walter Isaacson; data analysis expert Hilary Mason; content marketing expert Joe Pulizzi; NYT news analytics director James Robinson; Atria publisher Judith Curr (on the author’s decision between self-publishing and traditional publishing); and still more. And the roster of 30 […]
Strong Final Week Puts Pre-Frankfurt Dealmaking Up 12 Percent
With a very strong week of deal reports, our updated counts of pre-Frankfurt dealmaking activity now show 2014 surpassing what was a strong 2013 by a good margin. For October 1 through October 7 we logged 192 US deals, compared to 118 in the same period a year ago. So our totals which were up less than 2 percent for the month of September now have domestic deal report up almost 12 percent for September 1 through October 7, with 795 transactions (compared to 711 a year ago). Children’s and YA sales continued to show the biggest increase year over […]
Corporate: EC Investigates Amazon’s Tax Break; Frankfurt News; and More
The European Commission “opened an in-depth investigation” into the 2003 sweetheart tax deal between Luxembourg and Amazon. This is not the tax loophole that lets Amazon sell digital goods across Europe at Luxembourg’s low VAT rate, under the pretense that they are selling the items from that nation (and that loophole goes away in 2015 regardless). Rather, this is a deal that lets Amazon pay almost no corporate tax on their €13.6 billion in Euroeapn sales. In the current structure, the FT reports, Amazon’s Luxembourg operating unit showed minimal profit of €29 million on those sales, though it paid €2.1 […]
Last Day for The Best Prices
A short reminder: As we indicated on Friday, today is the last day to get tickets for our sixth Digital Book World Conference January 14 and 15 — and the return of our one-day Publishers Launch Kids event on January 13 at the lowest, “early” pricing. Also remember to use our Publishers Lunch discount code/link for additional savings on individual conference tickets.