Thursday, March 31, 2011

IDPF at BEA

In case you’re wondering, IDPF stands for International Digital Publishing Forum. And BEA stands for BookExpo America. That might help you understand the title of a news feed from Marketwire that I read: “IDPF Unveils Program for Digital Book 2011 at BEA.” The BEA conference will be May 23-24 of this year in New York. Last year’s conference sold out and they’re expecting this year’s to do so, as well.

According to the press release:
The conference includes featured speakers, in-depth sessions, and hands-on workshops broken down into business and marketing tracks and technology and production tracks, maximizing the learning opportunity for every attendee.
If you live near NY or want to attend, you can check out the preliminary program. Paying to attend the IDPF Digital Book Conference also gets you into BookExpo.

If you’d like to attend, you can find the registration cost online; the early bird price is only available through April 8th. You can also see a list of who attended last year.

If anybody’s going, I hope you do a detailed write-up of the conference. If so, let us know.

If money were not a factor, would you go?
Posted by Helen Ginger at 5:51 AM
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12 comments:

  1. Mary@GigglesandGuns3/31/2011 6:11 AM

    If money were not a factor I'd be there when the door opened. The conference plus NY in May, you bet.

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  2. Alex J. Cavanaugh3/31/2011 6:17 AM

    Getting to NY would be the challenge.

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  3. Liza3/31/2011 7:05 AM

    The though of attending and expo in NYC overwhelmes me a little...I think of the crowds. But a lot of telling information will come out of it, I'm sure.

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  4. Helen Ginger3/31/2011 7:13 AM

    I would want to find someone who's been before and would "tutor" me on where to go, what to see, what to attend, and who to talk to. Otherwise, I might end up wandering here and there and being overwhelmed.

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  5. Laura Eno3/31/2011 10:16 AM

    I think it would be fun...if money wasn't a problem. :)

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  6. Helen Ginger3/31/2011 11:34 AM

    Yeah, money is always a problem (for me, anyway). It sounds so huge, I'd probably want to rent a scooter.

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  7. Jemi Fraser3/31/2011 8:15 PM

    One of these days I'd love to get to a conference! This one sounds like it will be interesting!

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  8. Enid Wilson4/01/2011 7:33 AM

    2011 will be a good year for digital books. I'm sure there will be a lot of new ideas coming out.

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  9. Jean Henry Mead4/01/2011 8:30 AM

    I would love to go and look forward to a report from anyone who does.

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  10. Helen Ginger4/01/2011 8:49 AM

    From what I understand, Jemi, it's huuuuge.

    I think so, too, Enid. It seems to be like a tumbleweed rolling downhill, picking up speed and mass.

    I would too. And it'd be more fun if you had atleast one other person to go with. You could get overwhelmed and lost together. Surely one of you would be able to locate the bar.

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  11. Joanne4/01/2011 9:55 AM

    The coffee bar, that is ;)

    Yes, I would definitely go and soak it all up. And with admission to IDPF getting you into BookExpo too, what a great way to spend a week ... immersed in all things writing ...

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  12. Helen Ginger4/01/2011 2:02 PM

    Joanne, that reminds me of the first Bouchercon I went to.

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