Book Expo – Day 1
Wow, what a day. No time to transcribe and distill all my notes and observations from Friday’s Writers to Reader’s Session which focused heavily on leveraging Web technology to open communications with readers, and the impacts of content accessibility on traditional book publishing. Let’s just say that the phrases "branding", "blogging", "long tail", "Web 2.0" and "reaching the sub-30 kids" came up with some regularity. Less frequently, but said in more impassioned voices, "content ownership", "quality control" and "sure I want to get my content out there, but I want to be able to eat too."
So instead of a full breakdown, I’m going to give you a list of links. Links that were mentioned in sessions, links belonging to speakers, links of people I met.
- publishersmarketplace.com
- bookshelf.ca
- bookcrossing.com
- flickr.com
- gtabloggers.com
- audacity.com
- kevinsmokler.com
- wikibooks.com
- wikipedia.com
- myspaces.com books
- audioblog.com
- books.google.ca
- freakonomics.com
- upcoming.org
- craigslist.com
- pubsub.com
- kcrw.com
- mentalfloss.com
- chbooks.com/
- softskull.com
- viewaskew.com
- froogle.com
- amazon.com/digitalbooks
- rabble.ca
- archive.org
- amazon.com/advantage
- bookreporter.com
- neilgaiman.com
- bubbleshare.com
- http://rabble.ca/lounge/
- myspace.com
- friendster.com
- napster.com
- nakedconversations.com
- youthography,com
- shelf-awareness.com
- booknetcanada.com
- publisher.live.com
- academic.live.com
- ideas.live.com
- teridegler.com
- bookreporter.com
- readinggroupguides.com
- authorsontheweb.com
- authoryellowpages.com
- faithfulreader.com
- teenreads.com
- kidsreads.com
- omdc.on.ca
- nigelbeale.com
- taddlecreekmag.com
- tla1.com
Tags: book expo canada, long tail, branding, writers to readers, don sedgwick, michael cader, michael tamblyn, kevin smokler, carol fitzgerald, carol off, tom turvey, jeff steele, thiru anandanpillai, judy rebick, doug minett, albert lai, harpercollins canada, ontario media development corporation, penguin group, simon & schuster canada, book and periodical council
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Heya,
Fascinating stuff and I’m jealous not to have been there. Interesting to see Kevin Smith’s View Askew website there since I’ve long thought it’s one of the more ingenious marketing sites around. And ditto for Guelph’s Book Shelf – very cool store, that! Booknet Canada is also quite fascinating. I’m not sure how that will play out (their mandate seems quite ambitious) but still – very neat.
Cool!
Von
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