Ron Hogan

Ron Hogan
Creator and Publisher, Beatrice.com

Web site | @ronhogan

Ron Hogan created Beatrice.com in 1995, making it one of the oldest continuously running literary websites on the Internet. He also writes about the publishing industry at GalleyCat.com and speaks frequently at industry conferences and book festivals, including Tools of Change and BookExpo America.

Sessions

3:40pm Wednesday, 02/11/2009
Where Do You Go with 40,000 Readers? A Study in Online Community Building
General
 Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Ron Hogan (Beatrice.com), John Scalzi (Scalzi Consulting), Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books), Tobias Buckell (self-employed)
John Scalzi is the science fiction author whose personal blog, Whatever, has built up an audience of approximately 40,000 daily readers and won a Hugo for best fan writing. Patrick Nielsen Hayden is the editor at Tor who saw a novel Scalzi published online and saw a future "New York Times" bestseller in the making. Publishing industry observer Ron Hogan talks with them about how it all happened. Read more.
Sponsors
  • Impelsys Inc.
  • Ingram Industries
  • oXygen XML Editor
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • codeMantra
  • Connotate
  • DPCI
  • Innodata Isogen, Inc.
  • LibreDigital
  • Lulu
  • Malloy
  • Mark Logic
  • Media Services Group
  • Quark, Inc.
  • ReadHowYouWant
  • RSuite
  • Safari Books Online
  • Smashwords, Inc.
  • Sterling Commerce
  • Verso Digital

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