In this BEA 2009 Author Stage event, Gamal Al Ghitani, the winner of the Sheikh Zayed Award For Literature 2009 and author of the novel Pyramid Texts, discusses his latest novel, The Zafarani Files; the intrigues of an old Cairo quarter, in a parable about political and personal freedoms.
Archive | July, 2009
2009 BEA Editor’s Buzz
BEA’s original and ultimate transfer of tastemaking is back! Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange provides you with the insiders perspective on some of the Fall’s new discoveries and potential breakouts.
Hosted by John Freeman, US Editor of Granta, this panel featured Paul Elie of FSG, who talked about Michael Sandel‘s Justice; Deb Futter of Grand Central Publishing, discussing Leila Meacham‘s Roses; Alexis Gargagliano of Scribner, who previews Alex Lemon‘s Happy; Harriet McDonald of Tor Books, who discusses Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson‘s A Memory of Light; Ben Sevier of Dutton, speaking about Jonathan Tropper‘s This Is Where I Leave You; and Robert Weil of WW Norton, who previews David Small‘s Stitches.
How Social Media is Transforming the Way We Create, Publish and Sell Books
Social media is not just for kids anymore; it’s the #1 activity on the Internet.
From the Kindle to Facebook and Twitter, what does this all mean? How do publishers and retailers avoid making the same mistakes as the music and television industries?
Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and do Business tells us why it’s imperative to harness the power of the social graph, rather than be crushed by it.
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Profitable Distribution Channels for Your eBook and Digital Audiobook Titles
Trade, higher educational, and IT publishers are not the only markets creating double-digit growth for eBook publishers and authors.
US and international booksellers, libraries, schools, associations and online communities are looking to buy your digital books now. Listen in as leading digital media distributors tell us where the smart money is developing digital book businesses.
Michael Smith, Executive Directory of the International Digital Publishing Forum moderated this panel. Smith was joined by Andrew Weinstein,Vice President and General Manager of Retail Solutions at Ingram Book Co.; Bob Livosi, Founder of BooksonBoard.com; and Erica Lazzaro, General Counsel at OverDrive, Inc.
Publishers Business Opportunities: Google Book Search Library Project
Co-hosted by Google and The Association of American Publishers (AAP), this session was a a non-legal conversation, moderated by Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch, for those publishers interested in direct access with those who represented them during the negotiations, and a review of the multiple business opportunities for publishers unlocked by the settlement.
Cader was joined by Tom Turvey, director of Google’s Book Search Partnership Program, John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan, and Richard Sarnoff, Co-Chairman of Bertelsmann, Inc.
Jumping Off a Cliff: How Publishers Can Succeed Online Where Others Failed
As Rolling Stone observed in its 2007 series on the music industry’s decline: “it all could have been different.”
In the coming years, will those words also haunt publishers? This panel starts from an (almost) undisputed point of view: at the turn of the millennium, a handshake away from a landmark deal with pioneering P2P music-sharing site Napster that would have kept the service’s 40-million users downloading, the record industry blew it. Of course, it’s not quite that simple.
“The record companies needed to jump off a cliff,” Hilary Rosen, then CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, told Rolling Stone of that seminal moment in the industry’s history, “and they couldn’t bring themselves to jump.”
Panelists address whether a similar cliff may be looming for publishers, what lessons we can take away from the music industry experience, and how, in the age of Google, YouTube, iPhones, Blackberries and social networks, publishers and authors can better position themselves to take advantage of—rather than be overtaken by—the power of the Internet.
Moderated by Andrew Richard Albanese, New Features Editor at Publishers Weekly, this panel featured Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, and author of Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price; Jared Friedman, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for upstart social publisher Scribd; and Nick Bilton, Design Integration Editor and User Interface Specialist at the New York Times.
- Interview with Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend
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- Interview with Kathleen Schmidt, President of KMSPR
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