23rd Annual Meeting (2001)
The program for the 2001 SSP meeting is designed to help publishers not only look to the future, but also to manage and thrive in the present. The revolution in publishing isn’t coming. The revolution is here and publishers are living within the revolution everyday. In order to have resources for the future, publishers must be financially successful today. And so, what is required to be successful this year and next? As publishers think about creating electronic content for the future, we must begin reengineering the production process today. What sort of impact will coding have on our copyediting and typesetting process today? Do we know enough about libraries based on our current experience selling subscriptions to successfully negotiate with consortia tomorrow? We know how to publish books and sell them the old-fashioned way, but do we know how to publish books that will sell in the Internet world? We see enormous change on the horizon, but must also manage our current businesses for success today.
