This week, I’m at Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, participating in a future-of-publishing experiment called Sprint Beyond the Book. Click here to read more and participate.
Yesterday, I attended CONTEC, a one-day publishing industry conference, focused on the intersection of content and technology. I wrote a blog post at VQR about the key takeaway, which centered on self-publishing. Click here to read the post.
Two free white papers were referenced during the event, of interest to authors:
- Global eBook Report
- A white paper on author-publisher relations, which speaks fairly directly to the threat traditional publishers face if they get cut out of the process by authors, agents, or others.
Stay tuned to Twitter (either my account or VQR’s) for timely updates from my work at Frankfurt.
Jane Friedman has spent nearly 25 years working in the book publishing industry, with a focus on author education and trend reporting. She is the editor of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World in 2023. Her latest book is The Business of Being a Writer (University of Chicago Press), which received a starred review from Library Journal. In addition to serving on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Creative Work Fund, she works with organizations such as The Authors Guild to bring transparency to the business of publishing.
I hope you’re having a great time in Germany. Don’t work too hard. 🙂