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8:30am Monday, 02/09/2009
eBooks I: Business Models and Strategy
Tutorial
 Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)
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. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 02/09/2009
eBooks II: Formats, Standards, and Implementation
Tutorial
 Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)
Joshua Tallent (eBook Architects), Keith Fahlgren (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)
The second of our two-part series on eBooks, this tutorial is all about implementation. We'll show you how to make your books into digital masterpieces; cover the ePub format, discussing its special features and unfortunate pitfalls; and we'll take a look at the capabilities of the current ePub readers and how you can make them work for your particular eBooks. Read more.
11:35am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Building a Better Web-based Book
General
 Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)
CJ Rayhill (Safari Books Online), Travis Alber (BookGlutton), Aaron Miller (BookGlutton.com), Liza Daly (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Ben Vershbow (New York Public Library), Dave Gray (XPLANE)
Developing a digital reading interface raises social, aesthetic and technical challenges. Panelists in this session will talk about interface development (web-based vs. client-based), technical decisions, community requirements and intellectual property issues. Read more.
11:00am Wednesday, 02/11/2009
Survey of Current E-Readers
General
 Location: Empire-Hudson (7th Floor)
Liza Daly (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Keith Fahlgren (Threepress Consulting Inc.), Anusha Nirmalananthan (Plastic Logic, Inc. )
What's it like to read your books on a Kindle? Can consumers put your 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 popular e-readers with a focus on the reading experience: ease of use and purchase, navigation, fonts and layout. Read more.
Sponsors
  • Impelsys Inc.
  • Ingram Industries
  • oXygen XML Editor
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • codeMantra
  • Connotate
  • DPCI
  • Innodata Isogen, Inc.
  • LibreDigital
  • Lulu
  • Malloy
  • Mark Logic
  • Media Services Group
  • Quark, Inc.
  • ReadHowYouWant
  • RSuite
  • Safari Books Online
  • Smashwords, Inc.
  • Sterling Commerce
  • Verso Digital

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