Tools of Change
Tim O'Reilly has a conference called Tools of Change, which is basically about the Future of Publishing, it was completely sold out, just last week, everyone is talking about it—so where's your report, Richard?
Well, the frustrating thing about independent publishing is that you spend so much time doing what you absolutely have to do that there is no time for discretionary activity like attending such conferences, plus Counterpoint's ducats are not going to extend to paying the fee to attend such pricey conferences and my lame ass was unable to get itself a seat on a panel, sigh.
Thus I'm as dependent as you on reports from others—the usual suspects (links are to the posts tagged with our current subject matter...): Galleycat, Booksquare, Jeff Gomez, and so on.
But here's a nice summation at Medialoper, itself referencing an article by Kevin Kelly, "Better Than Free," which is basically the next best thing to Rules for a Business Plan for Existing in the Future of Publishing.