Whither the cookbook? It’s a question that publishers, authors, agents, just about anyone in the industry is asking. Questions around content generation, monetization opportunities, and new media all have prompted great rethinking of the processes by which cookbooks come to market. But what does that mean for changing traditional models? And how do content creation methods evolve with the advent of user-generated and blog content?

This session is meant to explore some of these issues in depth, by looking at what publishers are doing today and how that can change in the future. We’ll explore a variety of questions on the topic, breaking down the conversation around content, monetization, and new media promotion. What are some of the upcoming content monetization channels? How can publishers become more flexible in their approach to content, both in-print and online? And where do publishers, authors and other constituents fit in the conversation happening online with consumers?

Along the way, we’ll also discuss methods by which cookbooks come to market going forward, and whether decentralized approaches to content through blogging and self-publishing are viable in the new digital world. And, we'll also look at ways in which new models can be applied outside of cookbooks to the wider content world.