Rogue Digital Conference at the RWA next week
By Paul Biba
The Romance Writers of America are holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C. next week on June 15 to 17. Along with that Booksquare (which has one of the best logos on the net) has set up their own Rogue Digital Conference on July 16. Here are the details. It looks pretty interesting:
Kassia Krozser of Booksquare.com, a frequent speaker on the publishing circuit and co-founder of a new romance epublisher, Quartet Press, will start us off by focusing on digital issues, particularly the contrasts between traditional print publishers and digital publishers. She will be highlighting the efficiencies of the latter, challenges (and strengths) for the former, and questions authors (and maybe readers) should be asking. Kassia will touch on timing of reversion of rights, territorial rights in the worldwide digital audience, chunked content, and the spectre of being paid on the net.
Sarah Wendell of SmartBitches.com, co-author of Beyond Heaving Bosoms, and lecturer will discuss digital promotion and some self publishing numbers shared by authors as well as the results of the Smart Bitches eBook Reader Olympics.
Jane Litte from DearAuthor.com will share with you the five questions you need to ask your agent about the Google Book Settlement. She will discuss how evolving technology may affect the number of ereading devices in the future such as transreflective LCD screens, the popularity of netbooks, tablets, and dedicated readers and the rise of the smartphone.
Angela James of Samhain Publishing will present the digital publishing model and how it works along with the pros and cons of publishing with a digital publisher (aka why you may or may not want to go this route with your next book) with a straight look at the money.
Maya Banks and Lauren Dane, two epublished and print published authors, are ready to share the hard numbers about digital publishing and why they’ve both chosen to keep one foot in the digital publishing pond.
July 10th, 2009 at 9:33 am
It should be pointed out that the URL of the Smart Bitches romance review website is smartbitchestrashybooks.com. smartbitches.com is not a site about books.
(Nor is it safe for work, for the curious.)