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X-WR-CALNAME:O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2009
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PRODID:Expectnation
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20090209T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20090209T083000
DTSTAMP:20090221T005228
LOCATION:Broadway South (6th Floor)
URL:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009/public/schedule/detail/6708
UID:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009--s2009-02-09-08:30--6708
SUMMARY:eBooks I: Business Models and Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Smith (International Digital Publishing
  Forum), Kenneth Brooks (Cengage Learning), Leslie Hulse (HarperCollins 
 Publishers), Cynthia Cleto (Springer Science+Business Media). Get a comp
 rehensive overview of the basics of eBooks including business issues dri
 ving ePublishing, business characteristics, business models, areas of ex
 perimentation, challenges and trends. In association with the Internatio
 nal Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), we’ll consider each of these aspect
 s across Trade, Higher Education, Reference and STM Publishing.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20090209T170000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20090209T133000
DTSTAMP:20090211T211100
LOCATION:Broadway South (6th Floor)
URL:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009/public/schedule/detail/6712
UID:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009--s2009-02-09-13:30--6712
SUMMARY:eBooks II:  Formats, Standards, and Implementation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joshua Tallent (eBook Architects), Keith Fahlgr
 en (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)
 . The second of our two-part series on eBooks, this tutorial is all abou
 t implementation. We'll show you how to make your books into digital mas
 terpieces; cover the ePub format, discussing its special features and un
 fortunate pitfalls; and we'll take a look at the capabilities of the cur
 rent ePub readers and how you can make them work for your particular eBo
 oks.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20090210T122000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20090210T113500
DTSTAMP:20090303T045610
LOCATION:Broadway South (6th Floor)
URL:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009/public/schedule/detail/5230
UID:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009--s2009-02-10-11:35--5230
SUMMARY:Building a Better Web-based Book
DESCRIPTION:Presented by CJ Rayhill (Safari Books Online), Travis Alber 
 (ReadSocial and BookGlutton), Aaron Miller (ReadSocial), Liza Daly (Safa
 ri Books Online), Ben Vershbow (New York Public Library), Dave Gray (XPL
 ANE). Developing a digital reading interface raises social, aesthetic an
 d technical challenges. Panelists in this session will talk about interf
 ace development (web-based vs. client-based), technical decisions, commu
 nity requirements and intellectual property issues.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20090211T114500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20090211T110000
DTSTAMP:20090211T215739
LOCATION:Empire-Hudson (7th Floor)
URL:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009/public/schedule/detail/7458
UID:http://www.toccon.com/toc2009--s2009-02-11-11:00--7458
SUMMARY:Survey of Current E-Readers
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Liza Daly (Safari Books Online), Keith Fahlgren
  (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Anusha Nirmalananthan (Plastic Logic, Inc
 . ). What's it like to read your books on a Kindle?  Can consumers put y
 our content on their Sony Reader? Could you stand to read War and Peace 
 on an iPod Touch? In this session, we'll review the current set of popul
 ar e-readers with a focus on the reading experience: ease of use and pur
 chase, navigation, fonts and layout.
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