Schedule: Keynote sessions
Broadway Ballroom
Stephen Abram (SirsiDynix)
Information 3.0 is all about the social web and how it's changing the reading and information acquisition habits of everyone, from Boomers to Millennials. What role will publishers play in this new world? Buckle your seat belt as Stephen Abrams takes you on a whirlwind tour of trends, analysis, and innovations that will either sweep your business aside or take it to new levels.
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Broadway Ballroom
Bill Burger (Copyright Clearance Center)
Emerging technologies, new business models and changing social expectations are bringing new focus to old debates around copyright. They are challenging assumptions about who controls content. And they are shifting the balance of power between content creators and distributors. How can publishers turn these forces to their advantage? What questions should they ask as we look to the future?
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Broadway Ballroom
Douglas Rushkoff (Author, "Get Back in the Box")
New media is a challenge to anyone and everyone who ever used the word "author." Interactive technologies are biased against sole authorship, leaning heavily instead towards collaboration. But then what happens to the authority of the author - much less the "copyright" holder?
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Broadway Ballroom
Kathy Sierra (Creating Passionate Users),
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
In this one-on-one interview, pre-recorded exclusively for the 2008 O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, Kathy Sierra and Tim O'Reilly discuss innovations in the publishing landscape from an author's perspective. They also touch on the principles of how Sierra successfully "creates passionate users" and how this energizes and increases her audience.
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Broadway Ballroom
Kenneth Brooks (Cengage Learning)
Ken Brooks discusses how Cengage Learning is making the digital asset leap while protecting business value in the migration from print to electronic.
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Broadway Ballroom
John Ingram (Ingram Industries, Inc.)
While there is consensus about the demand for digital content, the markets and distribution mechanisms are still somewhat unclear. This session will focus on the tectonic shifts taking place in the market and the ways that publishers can adapt by partnering with companies such as Ingram.
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Broadway Ballroom
Barry Libert (Mzinga)
Many companies have benefited hugely from harnessing collective power.
But not all have succeeded. There are many pitfalls to be avoided and
obstacles to be overcome in tapping the wisdom of communities. If you
can take on the challenge, communities and social networks can help your
company invent new products and services,
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Broadway Ballroom
Sara Nelson (Publishers Weekly)
A closer look at some of the things you think you know about the book business.
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Broadway Ballroom
David Elmekies (Cold Fusion Entertainment LLC)
Introducing innovative technology that will revolutionize the publication industry, Cold Fusion Entertainment has designed a live streaming edutainment based system instantly narrat-ing live audio voice over and sound effects bringing books and characters to life. Books will no longer be limited to our imagination and 2-D pictures.
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Broadway Ballroom
Bob Young (Lulu.com)
Lulu.com and other online publishing ventures are not going to replace the existing publishing industry. They are going to serve markets the existing publishing industry was never set up to serve.
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Broadway Ballroom
Neeru Khosla (CK12 Foundation),
Murugan Pal (CK12 Foundation)
Using an open-source, web-based model termed the "Flexbook," this talk will present our efforts to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational webtexts that will serve both as source materials for a student's learning and, as well, provide an adaptive environment that scaffolds the learner's journey as he or she masters a standards-based body of knowledge.
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Broadway Ballroom
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
After putting Dilbert online for free, Scott Adams reported, "Free is more complicated than you think." In this talk, Tim O'Reilly does the math: just how many page views do you need to support an e-book with advertising? How popular does your blog need to be? What percentage of customers who sample a free product end up paying for more?
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Broadway Ballroom
Stephen Abram (SirsiDynix)
How do teens today consume media? How is technology shaping their reading habits? What does it mean to be a teen in today's information-rich world? Hear from teens in this panel discussion.
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