Most
folks in the industry see the Apple announcement as a game changer — a company big enough and nimble enough to give Amazon a run for its money in terms of being the dominant player of eBooks.
Not exact matches
You
see, the whole
industry could try for ages convincing regular
folks to join
in on all the fun, but
in reality all it takes is one word of a Jewish Ukrainian beauty.
The internet's been buzzing with excitement from
industry folk, bloggers, guests and attendees alike
in the weeks leading up to it — and though I can only speak as a spectator to the spectators — it certainly feels like the excitement has reached a level greater than the decline of last year, which
saw less
industry - presence and fewer announcements.
I have worked
in the publishing
industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of change
in the
industry, and
saw the bottom fall out
in mid-2008, with all the
folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living
in traditional publishing disappear.
March 21 Stockholm IfBookThen: The second iteration of the year for this conference,
in Sweden,
sees a roster of speakers that includes some of our favorite
folks in the
industry.
This earlier work, which I
saw in the Art Now room at Tate Britain and reviewed for a magazine, commemorated a cottage
industry, a
folk art, of cinema.
Great also to
see that these
folks are not shy about coming forward about their ideas either - this is clearly a project set to drive debate and force real change
in the car
industry.
While many
folks in the
industry have
seen this coming for months, the news has still raised eyebrows.
Now that more
folks are jumping into the job market and even more are on the job search bandwagon, the hope is that people will
see a bump
in pay
industry - wide.