'The Persistence of Print' at Digital Book World

Maybe at a children's books conference, one might expect the "I love books" part to be played up. But the "but only when I have time" clause is a serious and increasingly challenging one and Kleeman's upbeat presentation didn't do much to drill down on what publishers might need to do to address that available-time factor. And while, Kleeman said, the concept of a "book" has changed to include ebooks, audiobooks, print, publishers shouldn't try to embrace all channels at once as they work to expand the cross-platform ways to get "a book across the room and into the hands" of readers. Careful management of expansion into multiple formats and channels is important, he said.