Can specialty publishers survive the economics of publishing that deliver high returns and low remits? What is the impact of the widening gap between subscriptions and newsstand sales? And has print lost prestige among the people who need it most–the publishers? These are topics discussed at Distripress 2012 in Glasgow earlier this month. Everyone’s still searching for answers and new perspectives can be found looking across international boundaries.
SAVE THE DATE
Fifth Annual Women’s Leadership Conference is March 6, 2013
The members of the 10 year old organization, Women in Periodical Publishing resolved to expand their mission in 2008, and organize an event to better showcase the annual award they bestow on a female leader. They decided their award, called the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award, was not being sufficiently celebrated when they had to squeeze the presentation into one or another magazine conference. It was time to honor the accomplished recipients with an event they designed themselves. The first Women’s Leadership Conference in 2009 honored Alix Kennedy and featured dozens of women speaking on the major topics of the day.
Since then, the organization has changed their name to Exceptional Women in Publishing (EWIP), put on four conferences, and with new branding, more sponsor support, and an influx of new energy they have expanded outreach to included people in publishing, digital media, education, technology, and other innovative organizations and enterprises creating and absorbing content. Using social media and other new tools that connect people with ideas, the event is now a must attend. The EWIP Women’s Leadership Conference has earned a reputation for relevant, insightful discussions, with an all female speaker roster this unique national event provides a platform for the women making the revolutionary changes in the publishing and digital media “industry”. [2012 Video]
Exceptional Women in Publishing will convene the 5th annual conference at the newly remodeled City Club of San Francisco.
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Get news as it develops here: Women’s Leadership Conference 2013
Virtual Business Conference – Easy to be there!
The folks at Publishing Executive magazine are working hard to make your life easier. They are convening a virtual business conference with industry experts and “takeaways” from each session during the day-long event, available to you all without leaving town. Actually, you can register for the event and earn points by attending sessions, trading virtual business cards, and visiting exhibitor booths all without leaving your desk. Earn enough points and you will be entered into a chance to win an iPad2. Easy. There are sessions on digital discoveries, revenue strategies, building apps, DRM, e-books, opportunities in content marketing, and more.
Register HERE, but hurry, September 13th is virtually here!
What: Publishing Executives Virtual Business Conference
Who: Publishing Business eLearning Team
When: September 13, 2012 10:00 am – 5:00 pm ET
Where: Right from your computer, its virtual!
Why: Because you can never learn too much about the publishing business (you want an iPad2)
Cost: Free to all
Tell them EWIP sent you. 😉
EWIP Founding Board Member Thea Selby Responds to Todd Akin and Debra Saunders
Rep. Todd Akin’s remarks that abortion should be illegal even if the result of “legitimate rape” has created a firestorm of media response, including from San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders, who commented that the Republican “war on women” is “a crock.”
If this war is a crock, the Republican party needs to better distance itself from its spokespeople who call for an end to contraception, even in the context of marriage; who call women who speak up about the medical need for contraception “sluts,” who now indicate that there are forms of rape which are legitimate.
Thea Selby, founding board member of EWIP, responded with an open letter to Debra Saunders:
Ms. Saunders,
I see no reason for you to add dumb on dumb with this column. I went to highschool in Texas, where Planned Parenthood provided birth control and help with STDs for many students. Planned Parenthood in Texas is now unfunded, and if you want an abortion, you must 1. find a place to have one–good luck 2. find the money to pay for it 3. Watch the fetus on the ultrasound monitor 4. Listen to the heartbeat of the fetus and 5. Wait 24 to 48 hours to make sure you haven’t changed your mind. This, from the state that brought us Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who successfully argued Roe v. Wade. Texas is just one case in thousands where women over the past few years have lost their rights to control what is absolutely the most powerful thing on the planet–the reason that men are so eager to control it themselves–procreation. May you and the many people in this country who seem to miss this vital fact, wake up and vote these people out of power. Sincerely, Thea Selby