Inside Independent Publishing (with Ibpa)

How can indie publishers make it today? Is there room on bookstore shelves for their books? Industry veteran and big-picture thinker Melissa Serdinsky speculates on survival, community, and industry trends. Topics include: publishers vs. retailers industry consolidation the role of digital print in smart publishing can bookstores change with the future, or will they be left behind? narrowing the gap between indie booksellers and indie publishers how can indie publishers survive today? the surprising generation gap: how we think kids think of books is not how kids think of books at all! how to get books into the hands of our kids “locavore” publishing: a concept in cooperation creating communities through partnership Links Thin Air Collective https://thinaircollective.net/ Host Peter Goodman’s article in The (IBPA) Independent on “The Bookstore of the Future” http://articles.ibpa-online.org/article/indie-books-for-indie-bookshops/ Participants Melissa Serdinsky is an experienced, hands-on, forward thinking e