Joshua Tallent has been an eBook developer for 7 years, and is an expert on formatting eBooks in the variety of formats on the market, including Kindle/Mobipocket and ePub. His book, Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide, has been praised as the most helpful and thorough explanation of the detailed process involved in formatting great-looking eBooks for the Amazon Kindle. eBook Architects, his eBook conversion and consulting business, provides services to the breadth of the publishing industry, from big companies like LibreDigital and Rand McNally, to individual authors and small publishers. Joshua resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters. He can be found online at www.ebookarchitects.com and @jtallent or @ebookarchitects.

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Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant at Threepress. He’s been widely involved in the digital publishing ecosystem, from developing the open-source DocBook-XSL ePub Stylesheets to integrating publishers’ content into Safari Books Online. Keith was formerly at O’Reilly Media.

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Garth Conboy is President of eBook Technologies, Inc. The company operates in the consumer, enterprise and technologies licensing markets and provides a broad set of industry proven eBook technologies. Prior to co-founding ETI, Garth served as the General Manager and Vice President Software Engineering for the Gemstar eBook Group. In this position he was responsible for the operation of the division: platform and server engineering, quality assurance, content acquisition, content operations, content engineering, and customer support.

Garth led the Platform, Content Tools and Content Engineering groups for the Gemstar eBook Group. Garth is inventor or co-inventor of seven issued eBook patents; technologies include: cryptography and secure content distribution, eBook UI, resource/database dynamic conversion for cross-platform applications, and optimal paginated document presentation. Garth previously held the position of Vice President of Software Engineering at SoftBook Press.

Prior to the eBook effort, Garth founded Pacer Software and served as its CEO guiding it to a successful acquisition. Following the acquisition of Pacer Garth served as Engineering Director for NetManage, a leading supplier of networking and connectivity solutions.