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It's just exciting wonderful news central around here today. The brilliant Miss Lisa Holton of FourthStoryMedia.com will also be joining us. That is, if you guys all vote for the panel. So, if you know what's good for you (this panel, that's what), you'll vote. I will bring sodas too. We're allowed to bribe people right?

So so excited and grateful that all these wonderful people have agreed to be on this panel! It is a conversation that needs to be had.

Please vote for the panel so we can engage with these experienced people who are out there - experimenting, playing and evolving the space!

Kat Meyer - @Katmeyer - quartetpress.com Co-founder, vp mktg for QuartetPress (a digital publishing startup).

Evo Terra - @evo_terra - Co-founder of Podiobooks.com, co-author of Podcasting for Dummies

Mark Jeffery @markjeffrey - CTO Mahalo.com, author Max Quick Series (maxquickseries.com), cofounder Zerodegrees, The Palace, SuperSig

Lisa Holton - Founder and CEO http://www.fourthstorymedia.com/ (the Amanda Project)

I was already excited about this panel, and *then* I learned it's featuring both the awesome Kat Meyer and the fab Lisa Holton. Win, win, win. This panel must make the final schedule.

Little more but very important information about Mark Jeffery -

Mark Jeffrey is also host of http://bibliotechshow.com ( a cool videocast about books/publishing technology and change).


SO excited about this panel!

More happy news to report. Joe Wikert is joining us on the panel as well. For those who don't know, Joe is General Manager & Publisher at O'Reilly Media, Inc., where he manages the sales and editorial groups. I've been reading him for years at his "Publishing 2020" blog where he's provided industry insights for the past 4+ years. Joe is also a Kindle owner(he blogs about the Kindle at his blog, "Kindleville")AND a fan of reading on his iphone (go, Stanza).

It appears we have a really cool cross section of people who represent all kinds of new ways to think about books, and it will make for a great discussion about how the tools for storytelling/information-sharing are evolving. What we all seem to agree on is that it's clear the process of sharing info/storytelling is becoming a two- (and more-) way street. And, it's not static, it's a living conversation that grows and changes, which means the stories can evolve, the information can be added to and updated -- as can the ways that the stories are told.

Everyone on the panel has such a unique perspective on this ever-changing process that the panel is going to be a bit like a multi-dimensional puzzle coming together.

I'm excited. Please vote for us - I really want to hear what everyone has to say!

Absolutely stellar panel participants and an important topic for attendees interested in all kinds of publishing.

Deserves your vote but more importantly deserves to be a packed house.

Wow wow wow.

This is a seriously amazing panel - more so with the addition of Joe Wikert!

With such stellar, experienced and respected people on the panel, I will be sad to see this panel not make it. I really hope people vote to make this happen.

Blog post about this panel proposal (more info on the who, what, and why):
http://www.thebookishdilettante.com/blog/2009/8/21/sxsw-panel-picker-a-self-promoting-but-deserving-pitch.html

I know that Kat and team are VERY passionate about the book publishing industry and for that alone I want to see this panel selected.

Also I NEVER want printed books to go away! I carry one with me at all times (ya never know when you can read a few pages!!). That said, I think social media is a fundamental part of the industry and it needs to be explored and discussed. Through social media I have been able to friend authors I have never had access to before and it's been great.

Go, KAT, go! SXSWi, please select this panel...it's so important to so many people.

Beth Harte
Community Manager, MarketingProfs
@bethharte

Happy to vote for such a committed, innovative group of publishing professionals, exploring new and evolving models for the industry. Panel deserves our support!

Denise Berthiaume
Verso Digital
@DBerthiaume

I thinkg printed books will remain forever.

However, we can't deny it, Web 2.0, social networks and all that new stuff is changing everything, and of course, marketing and publishing are not excempt.

To change or to die. Make your choice.

Printed books will remain and I think they will be reborn under a different light, but I am really interested in seeing this diverse and very capable panel talk about specific models--both content and business,the issues and so on.

I think the members of the panel have lots of ideas as to what experiments people are focusing on and what the outcomes might be. Hopefully, we can put these different perspectives together, to get a whole that is much larger than the parts!

Very interested in participating in this panel .. the book world is rapidly becoming a very different place. I just got a deal with Harper Collins and my book is slated for shelves in mid-2011 ... I wonder what the publishing industry will look like by then!

Really excited that Eileen Gittens - CEO of Blurb is ALSO going to be on this already super panel!Eileen Gittins has been at the intersection of the Internet, consumer and enterprise software, imaging systems, search, and digital photography throughout her career. A passionate advocate for enabling technologies that offer new ways to do valuable things, Eileen is now democratizing publishing for the rest of us as the CEO of Blurb

People who attend this panel will walk away with some very solid direction - since each and every one on the panel comes with such different perspective and experiences.

The focus is on the future and who better to address those than a panel that is so steeped in exploring the changes and even shaping them in the industry today!