{"id":276926,"date":"2010-02-28T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/02\/28\/so-this-is-abu-dhabi-adibf-2010\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:41:03","slug":"so-this-is-abu-dhabi-adibf-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/02\/28\/so-this-is-abu-dhabi-adibf-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"So, This Is Abu Dhabi [ADIBF 2010]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took an extra day and 28+ hours of travel, but I’m finally in Abu Dhabi for this year’s International Book Fair. The Snowpocalypse of Thursday night\/Friday morning left me (blissfully—but that’s for another post . . . like one for Thursday) stranded in the Rochester region, with my original flight to LaGuardia being canceled, and my trip being delayed by one full day.<\/p>\n

Which was for the best, seeing as that I’ve already spent one night in JFK<\/span> and intend never<\/em> to do that again so long as I live, and also because all flights to Abu Dhabi were cocked up by the massive hail\/thunderstorm<\/a> (like once every four-six months sort of thunderstorm) that led to rerouting a number of flights and leaving some ADIBF<\/span> (Abu Dhabi International Book Fair) folks stranded for a night. (I chose so, so, so right in delaying all my flights by a day . . . So right.) <\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m here now, and will spend the next week writing about the Book Fair<\/a> and the International Copyright Conference<\/a> that kicked off today. (Speaking of which, you can check out Ed Nawotka’s posts<\/a> about the IPA<\/span> conference by clicking that link.)<\/p>\n

The UAE<\/span> is an interesting place, filled with intrigue, excessive spending, and a few potential book proposals (man, did I ever come up with a good one tonight . . . ), and sexy, hyper-development. Like this view out my hotel window:<\/p>\n

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Yeah, that’s a parking garage and a view onto the “mothership” lobby at the Aloft hotel . . . <\/p>\n

More tomorrow after presentations on “Global Publishing, Local Publishing, and Emerging Markets” and “The Digital Marketplace after the Google Settlement.” And keep checking here<\/a> to stay up-to-date on all the ADIBF<\/span> goings on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took an extra day and 28+ hours of travel, but I’m finally in Abu Dhabi for this year’s International Book Fair. The Snowpocalypse of Thursday night\/Friday morning left me (blissfully—but that’s for another post . . . like one for Thursday) stranded in the Rochester region, with my original flight to LaGuardia being canceled, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[31286],"class_list":["post-276926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-adibf-2010"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349436,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276926\/revisions\/349436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}