Personal schedule for Aaron Stanton
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We're kicking off the conference with a cocktail reception Monday evening at Zanzibar (9th Ave and 45th St.)
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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)
TBD
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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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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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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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Krishna Motukuri (Lulu.com),
Mike McGuinness (Scribd)
Author Storefronts, Widgets and Social Networking Apps, Oh My! "This panel discussion will feature Krishna Motukuri, SVP at Lulu.com,and weRead founder discussing how POD advances made self-publishing a viable alternative to the traditional publishing model giving authors more control over their book's future.
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Rainer Heckmann (Quark, Inc. )
Due in large part to the proliferation of communication channels – print, Web, email, mobile - today’s publishers face dramatically evolving requirements for the creation, production, and distribution of content. Dynamic publishing offers benefits across the publishing value chain to help organizations meet these market pressures.
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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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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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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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Kevin Smokler (Booktour.com),
Otis Chandler (Goodreads.com),
Tim Spalding (LibraryThing),
Kirk Biglione (Oxford Media Works),
Colette Vogele (Vogele & Associates)
Increasingly the publicity and operations of the book business involve the movement of data as much as physical product. This talk discusses the use of universal technical standards for all stages of the publishing supply chain, particularly for publishing professionals who have no idea what universal standards are.
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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 (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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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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Nina Paley (Nina Paley Productions, LLC)
Why should techies have all the fun? The few publishers to embrace
open content focus primarily on technical books. But an increasing
number of artists and pop culture creators are seeking alternatives to
copy restricting their works. What works for Cory Doctorow's science
fiction can also work for graphic novels, art and coffee table books.
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