Publishing

Book Industry Study Group. Book Publishing, Book Industry News, Content Delivery, Productio. Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog. There are so many op-eds these days on when or if to self-publish but more so, features on the inferiority of self-published works just by virtue of fact they are self-published. This premise is applied even if the self-publishing author has the budget, foresight and professionalism to engage all manner of expert editors, proof readers, formatters, designers and thoroughly research the distributing and promotion of his/her work, the resultant book will be very bad.

Worse, it will be amateur in content and looks. There’s also an assumption (somewhat fear, vs. empirically based) that without sufficient social media or platform, books (even great ones) won’t get noticed. I’ve seen a zillion writerly blogs with this headline: If you publish it who will find it/you? What astounds me in the vast acreage of articulated opinions on these issues is a few-fold. O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2010 - O'Reil. The fourth annual TOC is now over.

Thank you to everyone who participated and made it such a success. We hope you'll join us next year for TOC 2011, happening February 14-16, 2011 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. Watch Keynotes Online, and other exclusive TOC interviews. News & Coverage See all > Be Part of the Publishing Evolution.