Book Industry Open for SXSW 2013

POSTED BY prbythebook ON August 15, 2012

All year-round our city gears up for one very important month: March. Yes, there’s spring break, but here in Austin, TX we get busy prepping ourselves for SXSW, one of the largest Festivals in the U.S.

Well, it’s August and we’re already getting ready for SXSW 2013 and need your help. Our very own Marika Flatt has a panel in queue for the interactive section. Panel picking is now open for public voting and we need you votes! Vote now for “Secrets Publishers and Publicists Keep: The Future”

A sample of Marika’s insights:

The panel also includes David Neff, creator of Lights. Camera. Help. and Clay Smith of Texas Book Festival.

If you want to hear the voices of the book industry weigh-in at the famous breeding grounds for new ideas, vote and buy your badge early!

Tags: book industry, publishers, SXSW

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Post-BEA Series, Part 4: Prolific Publishers Persevere

POSTED BY elaine ON June 19, 2012

By Marika Flatt, founder of PR by the Book Our PR by the Book team spent time in The Big Apple earlier this month fully entrenched in the annual BEA conference, where we sit down with publishing houses, media outlets, agents and authors. This was my 13th BEA (I went to my first one in [...]

Tags: Book Expo, book expo america, publishers

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Oh my God, I think I want a Kindle

POSTED BY tolly ON May 21, 2010

Friends, I’m going to be straight with you. Ever since excited whispers starting bubbling up in the book industry about the Amazon Kindle way back when, I adopted my very first willfully stodgy stance on new technology. “Download all of your reading material onto a SCREEN? Blech! I prefer to read my Kafka in print, [...]

Tags: authors, book publicity, kindle, publishers, SXSW

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