Conferences & Trade shows Archives

I am in Philly for Indie Author Con

1 November, 20181 November, 2018blog maintenance, Conferences & Trade shows4 Comments

When I was last in Philadelphia I thought it was cute that this city had streets where a sane person would put an alley. Now that I have had to...

E-ink Booth Tour SID Display Week 2018 (videos)

4 June, 20184 June, 2018Conferences & Trade shows, E-ink, e-Reading HardwareLeave a comment

The ereader market is mostly dead, but E-ink is still showing off nifty looking new prototypes. For example, E-ink showed off their new 10.3" flexible display last week at SID...

Four Lessons I Learned in Making My First Flyers

6 April, 20189 October, 2018Conferences & Trade showsLeave a comment

Mailing lists, social media, and other online channels are the most commonly used marketing tools for selling books in 2017, but there will always be a place for in-person...

Register for Copyright and Technology 2018, and Get $100 Off

8 January, 20189 January, 2018Conferences & Trade shows, Intellectual PropertyLeave a comment

Copyright and Technology 2018 is coming up next week on Tuesday in New York City. The one-day conference will feature panels on digital watermarks, anti-piracy efforts, AI and copyright, and...

Violence Erupts at the Frankfurt Book Fair

18 October, 201723 October, 2017Conferences & Trade shows3 Comments

2017 is the year that Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists crawled out from under rocks, and assembled in public. Festering fascism has produced an immune response in the body...

Were Authors Treated Like the Red-Headed Step-Child at Denver Comic Con?

1 September, 201711 September, 2017Conferences & Trade shows5 Comments

Authors are the backbone of panels at many types of book cons, including comic cons, but author Alex Acks says that panelists were treated like barely tolerated nuisances at...

I am Attending Wordcamp DC this Weekend

14 July, 201714 July, 2017Conferences & Trade shows2 Comments

This weekend finds me at the Carnegie Library in Washington DC (why posting was light today). I am attending the first ever WordCamp DC conference. This three-day event covers all...

Writers Have a Cornucopia of Conferences to Choose From

13 June, 201713 June, 2017Conferences & Trade shows4 Comments

When DBW tried to boost attendance at its now-defunct conference by adding an indie author track, I noted that there were cheaper and better conferences where authors could learn...

E-ink Demoed a Foldable 10.2″ eReader at SID Display Week (video)

12 June, 201712 June, 2017Conferences & Trade shows, e-Reading Hardware9 Comments

E-ink showed off their latest projects, as well as what their partners are working on, at SID Display Week last week. A lot of the gadgets were old news, including...

eBookcraft Conference Presentation Videos Now Online

27 April, 201727 April, 2017Conferences & Trade showsLeave a comment

Held over a 2-day span in March in Toronto, eBookcraft is one of the last two remaining digital conferences in North American related to book publishing. Earlier this week they posted...

Following Declining Conference Attendance, Staff Leaves DBW

2 February, 20172 February, 2017Conferences & Trade shows5 Comments

Earlier this week Daniel Berkowitz left his position as senior editor of Digital Book World after holding the position for 18 months and has taken up a new role as...

DBW is Coming Up in a Couple Weeks

3 January, 20173 January, 2017Conferences & Trade showsLeave a comment

The Digital Book World conference is only two weeks away; do you plan to attend? I am going to be in NYC for the conference and I am still...

DBW Conference Adds Indie Author Track

14 December, 201616 December, 2016Conferences & Trade shows4 Comments

Digital Book World has always leaned more towards the corporate side of book publishing, but next year's conference is going to shake things up a bit. I was browsing the...

Breaking News: PRH Still Doesn’t Like the Subscription eBook Model (The Fools!)

26 August, 201626 August, 2016Conferences & Trade shows, Publishing17 Comments

Penguin Random House has in the past denied that readers want an ebook subscription service. What with Kindle Unlimited now paying authors and publishers more than the Nook Store,...

WDC 2016: The Best Opportunities for Writers are the Ones They Create For Themselves

12 August, 201615 August, 2016Conferences & Trade shows, Publishing, Writing9 Comments

It's 2016, and much of the publishing industry is in disarray. Traditional publishing is sliding into chaos, self-pub is constantly and discordantly reinventing itself, and both are being disrupted...

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