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Michael Smith (International Digital Publishing Forum),
Kenneth Brooks (Cengage Learning),
Leslie Hulse (HarperCollins Publishers),
Cynthia Cleto (Springer Science+Business Media)
Get a comprehensive overview of the basics of eBooks including business issues driving ePublishing, business characteristics, business models, areas of experimentation, challenges and trends. In association with the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), we’ll consider each of these aspects across Trade, Higher Education, Reference and STM Publishing.
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Francois Gossieaux (Beeline Labs & Society for New Communications Research),
Ed Moran (Deloitte Services LP)
Original content is an excellent catalyst for web community development, which means publishers are uniquely positioned to build relationships with established communities, and perhaps even grow their own. In this session, we'll look at ways content can form the
foundation of a web community effort.
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Ashley Gordon (Mockingbird Publishing)
Print on demand (POD) can counter rising costs and inefficiencies, but publishers shouldn't view it as the cure to all their ills. In this session we'll take a realistic look at POD technology, business models, strengths and weaknesses, and innovative uses.
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Peter Brantley (BookServer Project)
The explosion of publications on the web, in combination with
increasingly ubiquitous broadband networks, accessible from
ever-more mobile computing platforms, leads us to consider how
literature might serve as a collection of data to enable new
services on the web.
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Cory Doctorow (Happy Mutants LLC)
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Scott Meyers (Independent Author and Consultant)
How should authors approach their task, given that what they produce
may or may not appear in printed form, may or may not have color
available, may or may not be able to display dynamic content, may or
may not have Internet access available, and may be viewed on devices
ranging from widescreen monitors to cell phones -- unless it's
consumed as audio?
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Bill Rosenblatt (GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies),
John Kreisa (Mark Logic)
The recent landmark settlement between Google and book publishers has the potential to revolutionize online publishing; it sets the stage for a vast array of new business models. Will you be ready to reap the rewards? Will you be able to organize and deliver your content in the way that Google – and other online services – can use it to increase your revenue and exposure?
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Stephanie van Duin (Hachette Book Group)
Publishers, authors, and retailers all want to know: Do eBooks require a different cost structure? Using examples from actual projects, this session will look at the affect eBooks have on profit and loss development, business models, and costs.
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Russell P. Reeder (LibreDigital),
Chris Odom (LibreDigital)
The digital revolution has often provoked more questions than answers. That’s because content owners have always needed to balance a desirable breadth of distribution options with the need to exercise control over copyrights and a profound and correct perspective on where proprietary content has been distributed.
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Kate Eltham (Queensland Writers Centre),
Marc Prud'hommeaux (Lexcycle),
Brent Lewis (Harlequin),
Peter Brantley (BookServer Project)
More than half the world's population now has a mobile phone. What are the benefits of integrating a mobile content strategy into your publishing process? Can you afford to ignore it, or push it to the edges of your business?
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Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com)
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Sara Lloyd (Pan Macmillan)
Exploring a book publisher's manifesto for the twenty first century.
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Jason Fried (37signals)
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Jason Epstein (On Demand Books)
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Neelan Choksi (Lexcycle)
In this keynote, Lexcycle's Chief Operating Officer Neelan Choksi will share the lessons learned from delivering the Stanza Reader iPhone Application to the market.
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Nick Bilton (The New York Times R&D Labs)
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Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
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Joe Wikert (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
Clint Greenleaf (Greenleaf Book Group),
Michael Hyatt (Thomas Nelson),
Bob Young (Lulu.com),
Eileen Gittins (Blurb)
The goal of this session is to talk about the evolving landscape of
publishing and how the worlds of traditional publishers and
self-publishers are converging. Author platform is more important than
ever before. How do both types of publishers leverage this? What are
each doing to help authors build their platforms?
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Angela D'Agostino (Bowker),
David Thompson (Random House Publishing, Inc.)
Publishers historically have had little information on the end consumer (the reader) of their products (books). The times as well as the tools have changed that are now available to inform strategic decisions. Come and listen to interesting stats on consumer book buyer behavior and how publishers are using this data to inform decisions about how to best target their audience online and offline.
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Phil Zuckerman (Applewood Books)
As more and more of the publishing process is automated, how does a publisher insure the kind of quality that can maintain or build a brand of excellence? Through real examples of challenges and solutions, publishers will be led step by step through the planning and development process of a small reprint publisher in its pursuit of business scale without loss of quality.
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Mike Shatzkin (The Idea Logical Company, Inc.),
Maria Bonn (University of Michigan University Library),
D.C. Denison (The Boston Globe),
Jesse McDougall (Catalyst Webworks),
Andrew Bolwell (HP),
Andrew Malkin (Overbrook Consulting Group)
A growing industry requires experimentation, and experimentation inevitably leads to stories of success and failure. In this frank discussion, panelists will recount their digital content wins, losses, and lessons learned.
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Ron Hogan (Shelf Awareness),
John Scalzi (Scalzi Consulting),
Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books),
Tobias Buckell (self-employed)
John Scalzi is the science fiction author whose personal blog, Whatever, has built up an audience of approximately 40,000 daily readers and won a Hugo for best fan writing. Patrick Nielsen Hayden is the editor at Tor who saw a novel Scalzi published online and saw a future "New York Times" bestseller in the making. Publishing industry observer Ron Hogan talks with them about how it all happened.
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Evangeline Haughney (Adobe Systems Incorporated),
Bill Westerman (Create with Context)
Youth are approaching digital self-expression and publishing from a more organic, collaborative angle than previous generations. They jump right in when the creative urge strikes, collaborating with others from around the globe, and "publishing" an ongoing stream of of-the-moment, mashed-up, throw-away media. Learn more about the research findings on youth and the future of creativity.
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Chris Baty (NaNoWriMo)
National Novel Writing Month founder Chris Baty will talk about NaNoWriMo's improbable ten-year history and share some of the event's deeply hopeful signs for the publishing industry.
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