BookExpoCast

This panel, moderated by Christopher Kenneally, Director, Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center and host of the Beyond The Book podcast series, uses case studies and best practices to tackle many pressing issues: Territorial issues between Spain and Latin America; the role of agents and scouts; and the effect of Spanish language publishing within the US.

Kenneally was joined on the panel by Diana Finch, agent, AAR; and Blanca Rosa Roca, Roca Editorial.

The Perfect Guidebook: Outlining where the guidebook falls between planning the perfect vacation and sharing it with others. Guidebook publishers who are leading the industry in mobility publishing will reveal: How much information is too much for travelers planning a trip; the emerging role of video in travel planning; How user-generated content about travel is evolving and changing editorial development; And last but least, the impact of social media. You don’t need to be a guidebook publisher to benefit from the takeaways from these industry innovators.

Moderated by Brian O’Leary, Principal at Magellan Media, this panel of experts included John Boris, EVP, Lonely Planet & Managing Dir., Lonely Planet Americas; Tim Jarrell, VP & Publisher, Fodor’s Travel; and Robert Flynn, Global Travel Publisher and Vice President, Frommer’s.

In this session, “How the Digital Book Cloud Works for Publishers and Users,” Mark Nelson, Strategic Partner Manager, Google, talks about Google’s “books in the cloud” product, Google Editions.

This session, “Shanda: Bringing Literature Online and Comparing Experiences Between China and the US” featured Zhou Hongli, CEO Shanda Literature; and Ira Rubenstein, Executive Vice President, Marvel.

Apps for eReaders, smart phones and social networks are growing exponentially; with location-specific content apps at the top of latest innovations. This panel discusses the opportunities around book apps with a focus on how publishers are using apps to promote and distribute content. How is Apple’s App Store evolving with the introduction of the iPad? What can we expect with the explosion of new eReaders coming to market? What kind of innovation are we seeing with apps by service providers and publishers? What is the next frontier of mobile apps and the book industry? If you’re thinking about mobile apps for your content, you won’t want to miss this podcast.

This panel of industry experts featured Josh Koppel, co-founder, ScrollMotion; Dominique Raccah, CEO, Sourcebooks; Linda Gagnon, SVP – Digital Media Services, Baker & Taylor; and Peter Costanzo, Dir., Online Marketing, Perseus Books Group. The session was moderated by Michael Cairns, Managing Partner, Information Media Partners.

Read any news surrounding the agency model, iPad, or Amazon, and one can easily conclude why rights standardization is so crucial today. The pie is only so big, and everybody wants a piece of it.

Ebooks supplied the grist to the mill for revamping the business model; and everybody’s lunging at once. Authors are self-publishing (the really big ones and the really small ones); publishers are playing with rev-share models; both wholesalers and retailers are looking at the discounts they give publishers. And the line between royalties and retailers is blurred, and challenging for old channel partners. Hear these industry stakeholders as they talk candidly, and haggle, for their piece of the digital pie.

Moderated by Laura Dawson, CEO, LJNDawson, this panel featured David Marlin, President, MetaComet Systems; Richard Nash, founder, Cursor; Andrew Weinstein, VP & GM – Retail Solutions, Ingram Digital; and Scott Waxman, Principal, Waxman Literary Agency.

With these little handy things called books slated for extinction, what is a reviewer to do? IPads, Nooks, Kindles? What are these little plastic things with buttons? And what are they doing to our beloved reflections? We are set on the launch pad—the engines are heavy with fuel, and are rumbling. But where are we going? We brought together a panel of writers, editors, and professionals, established on the vanguard, to discuss prospects for the review and how it may change, in the near future.

Moderated by National Book Critics Circle board member John Reed, this panel featured Carolyn Kellogg, who writes about books for the Los Angeles Times; Nicholas Latimer, Vice President, Director of Publicity at Alfred A. Knopf; Ed Nawotka, founder and editor-in-chief of PublishingPerspectives.com, a daily online trade magazine for the international publishing community; Denise Oswald, Editorial Director of Soft Skull Press; John Reed, a National Book Critics Circle board member and Books Editor of The Brooklyn Rail; and Kate Travers, a marketing, media, and branding strategist to publishers, authors and literary organizations.

This video features an introduction by Jane Ciabattari, NBCC president.

The advent of social networking has given rise to a new culture of sharing and retailers and librarians should leverage the opportunity to engage and connect people around books and their ideas. But to do this, you need a strategy and a plan, not a haphazard, “see what sticks” approach to social technologies. Listen to this session and come away with a better understanding of how social networking can benefit your organization and a list of what “To Do” first, second, and onwards.

This informative session was presented by Charlene Li, author, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead, and David Meerman Scott, author, Real-Time Marketing & PR: How to Engage Your Market, Connect with Customers, and Create Products that Grow Your Business Now.

This session, “New Digital Technologies in Spain and Europe,” featured speakers Jesús Badenes, Planeta; Larry Bennett, Baker & Taylor; and Patricia Arancibia, Barnes and Noble.com.

As copyright itself is a subject of controversy and confusion, particularly in times of digital disruption, this interactive program will teach publishers everything they need to get up to speed on today’s hot-button copyright issues, including: Copyright 101: The Basics of Copyright, what is it, who owns it, fair use, and its purpose; Copyright in Motion: Digital Media, user generated content and steps you can take to manage content access and use; Global Copyright: Explore the differences in copyright regulations and attitudes around the world; Copyright Today and Tomorrow: From Google Book Search, to iPad eBooks, to Pirate Bay – What’s new, and what’s to come.

This session was presented by Christopher Kenneally, Director, Author Relations, Copyright Clearance Center, and host of the Beyond the Book podcast series.

In this session, “Publishing in Spain: An Overview,” a panel of industry experts joins Antonio Maria de Ávila, Executive Director, Spanish Association of Publishers Guilds.

Listen in as author Joseph Skibell, A Curable Romantic, along with Elisabeth Scharlatt, editor for A Curable Romantic and Publisher of Algonquin Books, and Michael Taeckens, Publicity Director, as they discuss the journey of a book from the writer’s imagination to the bookshelf. Skibell’s last book, A Blessing on the Moon, received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Why is romance so…hot?

Experts in the field of….romance…and romance novels take us between and under the covers to talk about the popularity of romance novels, from the all-romance-no-sex extreme to the all-sex-all-the-time other, including ideas for inception, how to acquire/market/edit, and how to best share them with your patrons. Speakers included Cathy Maxwell, author The Marriage Ring; Carrie Feron, VP and Editorial Director, Avon Books & Executive Editor, William Morrow; Tara Parsons, Senior Editor, HQN Books; Jen Enderlin, Editor, St. Martin’s Press; and Stephani Fry, RWA Bookseller and Librarian Liaison. This session was moderator by Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal.

According to research,75,000,000 millennials (born between the mid ’70s and late ’80s) are preparing to join today’s workforce. In the publishing industry, millenials will offer a unique and exciting perspective on a previously traditional profession. How will millenials’ mastery of technology, the internet and particularly social media affect publishing in the decades to come? What do they think about publishing as a business and what do they hope to contribute today and in the future? The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and New York University’s Master of Science in Publishing program invite you to listen to a panel discussion featuring a team of publishing students who share their thoughts about the current state of the industry, e-books, other new media — and what’s coming next.

Moderated by Peter Balis, Director, Digital Content Sales, John Wiley & Sons, this panel featured Charity Delich, Intern, strategy+business; Lauren DeSimone, Special Markets Sales Associate, Penguin Group (USA); Jessica Wells, Sales Administration Department, HarperCollins; and Till Wirth, Manager, Digital Content & Product Development, Random House.