A Guide to the Publishing Side of SXSW 2010

The South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) has concluded. If you (like this GalleyCat editor) missed the festivities, we’ve rounded up coverage of publishing events at the festival.

With a cool blue book, James Bridle showed us how print-on-demand can literally save the Internet.

We rounded up the best tweets from the “Brave New Future for Book Publishing” panel at the conference.

Publishing Perspectives took a more skeptical look at the festival, asking “SXSW Digerati: Publishing Assassins or Saviors?”

Over at the LA Times, Bloomsbury publicist and Freebird Books owner Peter Miller wrote about the brave new future, interviewed Jaron Lanier, and summed up the publishing lessons of SXSW. An excerpt: “Since I have worked my entire career at midsized to smallish publishers, I can’t help but feel a little remorseful about this projected future … But I have to ask, when does a publishing house stop being a publishing house and morph into an entertainment agency? ”

Did you attend SXSW? Add your thoughts and links in the comments section.

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