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May 31, 2007
Set Up
Setting up the booth this morning I missed this panel: “The Role of Book Publishers in the Real Digital Age: An Insider’s Perspective.” The insider is Jeff Gomez, Director of Internet Marketing for Holtzbrink. I’m still unsure of which is the Real Digital Age, and I didn’t even know there were insiders yet. I should have been there.
With the booth up, Greg and I came back for lunch and then I fairly trotted back crosstown to attend the AAP panel on “digital issues”. I got the idea, made notes on the Holtzbrink operational chart, and dashed up the hall to the Chris Anderson panel on “Giving It Away”. But I couldn’t get in the door. Acolytes were packed in long tail to long tail, and a fellow couldn’t hear a word from outside – not after that woman on the bus this morning screamed in my ear asking the driver to turn the radio down.
I’m told that Beyond the Book will podcast the panel one day. I’ll just have to wait for that with all the other folks who were leaning on each other just outside the door.
In the meantime, I’m still in the digital dark—even though my contemplations of authorial behavior as the overlooked variable in disintermediation still seem pivotal to me; remind me to tell you about them one day. (I say this only to have the chance to use “disintermediation” in a non-reflexive sentence.)
Clearly I was already missing the best discussions, and the show hasn’t even started.
So I went back upstairs and waved at Dan Farley. But he didn’t see me. It was really more of a nod, anyway.
Fred
Posted Thursday — 4:30 p.m.
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