By Porter Anderson | @Porter_Anderson
From November 3, 2011
Part of my series of columns on publishing, Writing on the Ether, appearing each Thursday at JaneFriedman.com
Conference Gemütlichkeit
So when the publishing gets weird, the weird go to conferences. Digital conferences. Transmedia conferences. Convene and confer. Confab and rehab.
Early bird discounts are extended to all. Then simply extended. And extended. Do not attempt to adjust the verticals of F+W Media, they’re bigger than you. A #toccon is a token of meaningful mingling. AWP 2012 started registration eight months, count ‘em, eight months ahead this year.
In the last 10 days, San Francisco was host to several conferences of note: the second annual Books in Browsers from TOC-heavy O’Reilly Media and the Internet Archive; the debut transmedia-trek StoryWorld from F+W; and the latest in Publishers Launch’s eBooks for Everyone Else series from Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader.
Read the full post here at JaneFriedman.com