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 was not one we made lightly,” publisher Tim O’Reilly said in the announcement on the TOC blog, “But after TOC 2013, we realized that a conference was no longer the best vehicle for us to contribute to publishing’s forward movement…Seven years on, ‘digital publishing’ is well on its way to simply […]
Book Fairs
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 inconvenience, BEA has extended the deadline to take advantage of the early registration discount through the end of day tomorrow, May 2. (Anyone who already registered and should have been provided a lower price will be contacted by BEA.) You can purchase the discounted conference ticket through a dedicated Publishers […]
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 and Consolidation. Top executives from Random House, Hachette Book Group and F+W Media will describe how they are deploying scalable solutions to distribution, publishing systems and e-commerce. Former Macmillan president and now private equity senior advisor Brian Napack will frame how scale has become more important than ever, and provide […]
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 of 30 to 50 deal reports. So if we did this analysis tomorrow, with one more pre-LBF day of reports included the limited-window data would increase. Therefore, below we are going to show you some data from the past month as well as year-to-date deal totals. First up is year-to-date […]
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 before the exhibit floor opens for the third year, and working with the BEA organizers and the IDPF (which holds their own digital conference at BEA), we are bringing back last year’s hugely successful Digital Combo Pass. The combo pass means that instead of choosing between the Publishers Launch and […]
People, Etc.
At the Random House Publishing Group, Melissa Milsten has been named director, partnerships and business development, reporting to Allison Dobson. In her new role Milsten will focus on developing long-term relationships with consumer brands and products to expand the audience for RHPG authors, increase marketing, publicity, and digital reach, and develop new revenue streams. Diana Coglianese has been promoted to editor for Knopf and Pantheon. Last Friday Hastings “dismissed 14 mid-level to executive employees” in order to cut their administrative costs. CEO and chairman John Marmaduke has relinquished the presidency, promoting Alan Van Ongevalle to president and chief operating officer as […]