2 December 2013
A report from the Futurebook conference:
LONDON: In publishing these days, one person's big idea is the next person's belly laugh.
But "The Big Ideas Session" near the end of The Bookseller's FutureBook conference in London last Thursday was intended to be the day's most provocative event. (Of course, there were some other provocations, as covered yesterday by Roger Tagholm in Is Government the Only Force Able to End Amazon Dominance?)
In the trademark deep-pink glow of the FutureBook's backdrop, the segment crackled with lightning glimpses of an industry still picking its way awkwardly, sometimes testily, across a treacherous digital landscape.
