April has appeared at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference in NY on a panel involving the changes in the publishing industry along with Mark Coker of Smashwords and others. (accrispin.blogspot.ru)
This session, moderated by Mark Coker of Smashwords, will feature a blue ribbon panel of ebook industry experts who will provide attendees diverse opinions on a wide range of ebook industry trends and issues, including DRM, reading device trends, consumer awareness and consumer marketing trends, ebook self - publishing, how Amazon's digital self - publishing offerings might upset the balance of power in traditional print publishing, digital ink technologies, and more. (conferences.oreilly.com)
And you're right that one of the most difficult parts of the hype - masters» relentless happy talk is that it causes writers who aren't selling well (and that is probably most writers, as Mark Coker says in comments above) to think that they're alone in that experience. (writerunboxed.com)