Here's an interesting article from the New York Times about the Book Expo America:
Book Fair Buzz Is Not Contained Between 2 Covers
The book publishing industry is notorious for jumping on bandwagons: witness the flood of "Da Vinci Code" knockoffs that clogged tables at the front of bookstores a few years ago, and the stream of novels featuring vampires that are crowding bestseller lists now.
So it should be no surprise that at BookExpo America, the publishing industry's annual trade convention that ended Sunday in New York, publishers seemed to be putting their own stamps on the increasingly frenzied conversation about electronic books that has hijacked the business.
There were the panels: "Giving It Away: When Free eBooks Make Sense and When They Don't," "Red Hot Readers: Market Adoption of Mobile eReading Devices" and "Jumping Off a Cliff: How Publishers Can Succeed Online Where Others Failed." Tina Brown, rasping with a bad case of laryngitis, kick-started a discussion with the chief executives of four New York publishing houses by asking if they were shocked when Amazon.com began charging $9.99 for e-books - "that paltry, pitiful sum."
to read the whole thing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/books/01bea.html?scp=1&sq=book%20fair%20buzz&st=cse