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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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Chris Brogan (New Marketing Labs)
You're worried about cost, control, and being consumed by the effort that blogging and social media seems to take. Or maybe you've heard that this is what you should do but don't have actionable first steps. Come to this session a novice and leave a knowledgeable implementer of social media strategies and tools.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Andrew Nachison (We Media),
Nick Bilton (The New York Times R&D Labs),
Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com),
Susan Mernit (BlogHer),
Matt Thompson (Reynolds Journalism Institute)
If we accept that media will never return to its pre-Internet form, what lies ahead for news? How will we use current and future digital tools to craft and disseminate information? What lessons can publishers of all types learn from the news industry's digital
transition? A panel of media experts will discuss these topics and others in this forward-looking session.
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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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