I'm so far behind on writing up the specifics of the conference that I'll put that off for later and instead give a sense of the milieu of the conference. I have a press pass and so I get to use the press meeting room, and as the conference progresses we exchange news about disasters in the publishing industry happening off-stage: the Anderson distribution system goes down (is that, like, 25% of mass market distribution, just gone?); restructuring at HarperCollins, etc. (My editor, Diana Gill at Eos, still has a job; her assistant editor, Emily Krump, apparently does not.) Huge changes in the industry happening hour by hour as we meet. 

If these huge changes in distribution mean what they appear to, in a year there may be no mass market books published anymore except "leads."