Tonya Engst
Editor in Chief, TidBITS Publishing Inc.

Tonya Engst is co-founder of the Take Control series of electronic books, which began in 2003 in order to deliver up-to-date technical content to readers. She currently serves as editor in chief for the series, which continues to innovate in creating, selling, and updating ebooks. Tonya is also known for co-founding and working as Senior Editor for TidBITS, an a Web site and email newsletter about all things Macintosh that has published on a consistent weekly schedule since 1990. Tonya is also a member of the MacNotables podcasting group.

Sessions

2:00pm Tuesday, 02/12/2008

Are New Devices Breathing New Life into e-Books?

E-books and Mobile Devices, General Broadway South

Tonya Engst (TidBITS Publishing Inc.), Ben Vershbow (New York Public Library), Mike Shatzkin (The Idea Logical Company), David Rothman (TeleRead.org), Steven Levy (Newsweek), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)

Although Arthur Andersen famously predicted a billion-dollar e-Book market would be here by now, 2007 was a big year for the e-Book faithful, with the launch of Amazon's Kindle, the first experiments with delivery of digital books on revolutionary new mobile devices like the iPhone and the $100-laptop Read more.

8:30am Wednesday, 02/13/2008

Understanding and Profiting from eBooks

Soho

Tonya Engst (TidBITS Publishing Inc.)

In this session, you'll see examples of ebooks from a variety of publishers, get ideas for making an ebook easy to buy and fun to read, and get ideas for adding special "e" features to ebooks. We'll be looking at: Read more.