rethinking publishing

Consolidation. Truthiness. Distribution. Sony e-Reader. Copyright protection. Marketing. Content.

The publishing industry is going through some significant changes in almost every area causing leaders to rethink how they will make content available to the public. Nobody knows more about industry drivers and innovation than Sara Nelson from Publishers Weekly. Author of the magazine’s popular opinion column, Sara offers insight and perspective on the industry’s most compelling issues.

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Sara Nelson has been the editor in chief of Publishers Weekly since January 2005, and writes a widely read column in each issue. During her tenure at the magazine, PW has been completely overhauled; it is graphically and editorially sharper and stronger, and more full of information than ever before. Six months after she relaunched the magazine, it won the prestigious Eddie Award for editorial excellence.

Nelson was previously the publishing columnist for the New York Post; before that she wrote a column on the book business for the New York Observer. A journalist for twenty five years, Nelson reviewed for publications from Glamour magazine to the Chicago Tribune. She was one of the founding editors of Inside.com. Her freelance pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many national magazines.

In addition to her work as a journalist, Nelson has been a teacher at the Radcliffe Publishing Course, the NYU Summer Publishing Institute and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism; she has also worked in TV. She has appeared regularly on radio and television networks and programs, including NPR, Air America, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, Today and Good Morning America