Launching ReBoot 2021: The Repair Shop. Assessing the damage and fixing it!
December 14, 2020 by ruediger
After a widely received first season in fall 2020, with four Preparations Workshops and a 6-hour state of the industry debate on October 13 – attended by 200 experienced industry leaders from 28 countries in a unique mix of heads of worldwide corporations and small local innovators –, it is time to move on. In […]
For book fairs, 2020 was (not is) a watershed moment. On Reed Exhibitions pulling the plug at BookExpo, and related news. About the current re-writing of the publishing play book.
December 2, 2020 by ruediger
At BookExpo 2018, a publishing “CEOÂ roundtable” hosted by the Association of American Publishers‘ Maria A. Pallante, had 3 heads of New York Big Five publishing corporations debating the future of the industry. I don’t recall details, but am certain that all three speakers were upbeat. Two years and a bit later, Carolyn Reidy of […]