Registration opens for third annual US Book Show
After hosting a virtual US Book Show for two years, Publishers Weekly will now offer a hybrid event in May 2023.
conferences
Notes on 2023 Digital Book World, Part Two
BookBub, Open Road Media, and Ingram all offered presentations on selling books via email advertising.
Digital Book World Returns to New York City
Featured takeaways from the conference (part one).
PageBreak Conference takes place this October
Positioned as a next-generation publishing event, PageBreak is an opportunity for the industry to gather and examine what’s next.
AWP may forgo an in-person conference in March
Currently, AWP is scheduled for March 23–26 in Philadelphia, but due to rising COVID cases, the organization is reconsidering its plans.
Progress on Author Payment for Festival Appearances
The Oxford Literary Festival has reversed its earlier refusal to pay authors. The festival will now pay authors to speak at its festival.
Marketing to Millennials: Nielsen on Reaching for a Readership
At the Children’s Book Summit, Nielsen VP Jordan Rost suggested personal connection, not sales pitches, is what appeals to millennials.
Writer’s Digest’s Novel Writing Conference: The Craft of Marketing
Garth Stein’s keynote at Writer’s Digest Conference was a clear-eyed admission of how central marketing has become for bestselling authors.
In the NINC of Time: Observations from the 2016 Conference
NINC’s conference is valuable because its members aren’t writers trying to break in; most of them broke in long ago.
We’re Programming Digital Book World’s First Author Conference
The Hot Sheet was engaged to develop the programming for the first-ever Digital Book World author-facing conference, DBW Indie Author.