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Five Highlights from SXSW Interactive

By On March 16, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Publishing

Today is the last day of the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, but it wrapped up for me last night, and while I’m still digesting everything I took in, a few highlights have already become clear.

Overall, the festival has been a chaotic mix of truly inspired presentations, thinly veiled sales pitches, over-the-top demagoguery [...]

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On DBW, SXSWi, Upcoming Gigs and Steampunk

By On February 14, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Personal, Publishing

You’re losing control of your own destiny. Authors, distributors and readers are getting closer to each other.

–Shiv Singh, Engaging Readers in the Digital Age

Three weeks ago, when I last posted something here, I was on the verge of completely disappearing into Digital Book World, [...]

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It’s Hard Out Here for a Pragmatic Optimist

By On January 7, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Personal, Publishing

“Publishing was never a business based on Wharton standards. It was a rich boy’s hobby.”

–Steve Wasserman (Kneerim & Williams)

Working in publishing isn’t for the meek. Neither is writing for that matter. They’re two things I’m really passionate about, though, and I’ve always counted myself lucky to work in the publishing industry, [...]

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New Year’s Publishing Predictions, Resolutions

By On December 21, 2009 · 10 Comments · In Personal, Publishing

I’m not usually one for making predictions — the only thing I hate more than gurus and pundits are self-proclaimed futurists! — but I couldn’t pass up offering my two cents to Folio: for their 2010 round-up of magazine and media predictions:

Consolidation and debt restructuring will continue apace. [...]

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Reflections on, Takeaways from #eBookSummit

By On December 17, 2009 · 11 Comments · In Publishing

“I suppose we could sum up this entire two-day conference under the headline ‘too early to tell.’”

–Steve Wasserman (Kneerim & Williams)

I attended MediaBistro’s eBook Summit this week and Wasserman’s summation is perfect; consumer book publishing is smack in the middle of the digital transition, and solid answers about how [...]

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