SXSW Bound
It’s official—I’ll be attending SXSW Interactive this March! In case you’re not familiar with it, SXSW is a conference in Austin, Texas bringing together innovators in interactive, design, media, film, and music.
Many publishing folks may know it as the site of last year’s infamous (on Twitter, anyway) “New Think for Old Publishers” panel. Panelists—industry experts—who were supposed to bring the “new think” brought nothing innovative and, instead, seemed to use the session to work the audience for answers to the big question: how can we fix publishing? From Booksquare’s excellent summary:
Let me be clear. Absolutely clear. Not one word spoken in that session, either from the panelists or from the audience, was new or innovative. The panel, well, we’ve all heard job descriptions before. The audience? That was one very long line of people saying the same things we’ve been saying to the publishing industry for ten years. And yet the publishing people treated our comments as if they were items to be added to a list.
There’s another book publishing panel this year, but given the panelists—Kassia Krozser, Kevin Smokler, and Debbie Stier—I already know there will be better book talk coming our of SXSW this time around.
Are you going to SXSW? Let me know!
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