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Dru Zuretti (Copyright Clearance Center),
Christopher Kenneally (Copyright Clearance Center)
Produced specifically for the publishing community, this tutorialfocuses on the basics of U.S. copyright law, including a copyright holder's privileges and obligations, and when permission may be required. The session will include topic overviews, examples, and opportunities for discussion.
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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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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.
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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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Jon Orwant (Google)
Google is trying to make every book in the world findable on the web, and so far has digitized seven million of them. In this talk, I'll describe some of the features we provide for publishers, and give a sneak peek at some upcoming developments.
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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.
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Edward Colleran (Copyright Clearance Center),
Nancy Ziser (John Wiley & Sons),
Greg Merkle (Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group),
Hadrien Gardeur (Feedbooks)
Digital publishing creates opportunities for ancillary products,
customization, sharing within online communities and mashups to name a
few, but it also opens the door to new rights, licensing and copyright
questions.
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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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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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Have a drink and mingle with fellow TOC participants and visit with sponsors during this informal evening event.
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Tuesday's evening events continue with Lightning Demos and Roundtables.
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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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Peter Balis (Wiley)
The digital landscape has changed dramatically over the past few years and Wiley, like many other publishers has worked tirelessly to stay ahead of the curve by anticipating trends in technology and consumer behavior while managing costs and workflows. It is at once an extremely exciting time and a difficult time as seemingly every day brings a new eReader or proprietary format to the fray.
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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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Joseph Bachana (DPCI)
As publishers are increasingly moving to make investments in their digital strategy, there are questions about what are the technologies that will best support that strategy. Mr. Bachana will present how DAM, XML servers, Web content management systems, text mining engines and multi-channel technologies support the publishers' digital needs, which you need today and which are not as critical.
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Ron Hogan (Beatrice.com),
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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