This year’s BookExpo America, an annual publishing business trade show, is full of talk of e-reading and other shifts in the industry.
There is a Wild West quality to the book business these days, and it is on full display at BookExpo America, an annual trade show that draws tens of thousands of authors, publishers and booksellers; this year it is at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York.
Authors are shrugging off publishers to self-publish their work. Publishers are advancing into retail. Barnes & Noble is getting deeper into the gadget business, and Amazon is stepping into publishing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/books/bookexpo-america-underlines-industry-shifts.html?ref=technology
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