Publishers Launch

We’ve put together a great program for the third annual Publishers Launch BEA Conference, which will be held on Wednesday, May 29, the day before the BEA exhibit floor opens. We are focusing intensely on the big issues that matter most right now and going forward: Consolidation and Scale. As the industry reckons with the pending Penguin Random House [...]

Benedict Evans covers mobile content, digital media and electronic publishing for Enders Analysis, a research and consultancy boutique in London. As part of his work, Evans regularly tracks the tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. He will join Publishers Launch Frankfurt on Monday, October 8, to share his view of these companies and how [...]

Our October 8 event Publishers Launch Frankfurt features publishing innovators and changes to the publishing environment. This webinar offers a nice glimpse of presentations from innovators Marcello Vena at Rizzoli (which is experiment with DRM-free and publishing digital in English) and Rick Joyce at Perseus Books Group (offering advice on how to use social media [...]

We’re excited to share this webcast of our first Publishers Launch webinar, “An Introduction to SaaS and Cloud Services for Book Publishers”. The webinar, sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services and Publishers Launch global sponsors Constellation and Copyright Clearance Center, provides a great concise overview of what we’ll cover in depth next Thursday, July 26 in [...]

Publishers Launch BEA 2012 was a packed day of data, insights and news. We are posting slides from many of the presentations, and we’ll have some audio on the way soon as well. We’d like to thank BEA for their support and our fantastic speakers and sponsors for their help in making this our best show yet.   Some [...]

Publishers Launch Conferences returns in 2012 for another year of comprehensive and practical education for the global book publishing industry. We are excited to announce continued partnerships this year with BookExpo America, Frankfurt Academy, and F+W Media to produce co-located conferences at major industry events in the US and around the world. We are also [...]

Seven conferences, four cities, three countries, one year. Publishers Launch Conferences brought together hundreds of professionals from all corners of the publishing business in its debut year. Digital publishing analysts, experts, and innovators from around the world shared insights from their experiences at the forefront of this evolving industry. And our equally distinguished audience included [...]

eBooks for Everyone Else was filled with data, insight, and advice from leading ebook publishing service providers and experts. Slides from both the New York and San Francisco eBEE conferences are now available. The image above comes from Kobo evp Michael Tamblyn’s very helpful analysis of pricing bands for different types of books. (His presentation [...]

For the first time, we present a full-day US conference just for children’s publishers, addressing the special digital opportunities and challenges they face as ereading tablets take off. Publishers Launch DBW: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital opens the week of activity around Digital Book World 2012, on Monday, January 23, the day before the big DBW [...]

After a number of “global” shows for international audiences, eBooks for Everyone Else is a show for all of those people in the US looking to jump-start their ebook plans. Specifically aimed at literary agents, small- and mid-size publishers, as well as individual authors, this event focuses on the main pieces of making, distributing and [...]