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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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Scott Berkun (Berkun Consulting)
Talking about change is easy - making change happen in most organizations is ridiculously hard. But there are things we can learn from the history of technology, political revolution and change, and there is a playbook we can reuse to help us avoid easy mistakes and seemingly popular, but actually self-defeating approaches.
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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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Mark Coker (Smashwords, Inc.),
Joe Wikert (O'Reilly Media, Inc.),
April Hamilton (April Hamilton),
David Rothman (TeleRead.org),
Russell Wilcox (E Ink)
eBooks, written off just a few years ago as a massive failure, are on the rise again. According to the latest industry data, ebooks are the fastest growing segment in an otherwise stagnant trade book industry. This panel discussion, moderated by Mark Coker, will cover the latest trends in the ebook business and provide publishers with actionable strategies to profit from the rise of ebooks.
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Mike Shatzkin (The Idea Logical Company, Inc.),
Laura Dawson (Firebrand Technologies),
Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media),
Ted Hill (THA Consulting)
Based on the results of six months of research, surveys, interviews, and analysis, the StartwithXML project offered a clear argument for developing intellectual property as XML documents from the outset.
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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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Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
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Liza Daly (Safari Books Online),
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.
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Stephen Smith (Zondervan)
Learn how Crossway Books managed a simultaneous print and web launch of a new reference book. We'll focus on how integrating digital planning into our workflow resulted in a better product at lower cost, and why other publishers should consider doing something similar to gain digital expertise.
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Greg Shepherd (Cengage Learning)
Making change, like implementing XML in a publishing environment, is never easy but how change is introduced can have a big impact on its success. This talk will tell the story of the human challenges Cengage Learning faced when it used a top-down model to implement XML-based workflows. It will also discuss how using Agile principles to relaunch XML has turned users into change agents.
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Rob Flynn (John Wiley & Sons),
Brice Gosnell (Lonely Planet Publications),
Cree Lawson (Travel Ad Network),
Nathan Clapton (TripAdvisor),
Ensley Eikenburg (Frommer’s )
Travel publishers have been particularly successful in leveraging their content in multiple formats, while continuing to maintain book sales. Why have travel publishers been successful and what can other publishers learn from them? A panel of experts will discuss how multiple platforms can strengthen brands and grow vibrant publishing businesses.
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Mac Slocum (O'Reilly),
Kassia Krozser (Booksquare.com),
Kirk Biglione (Oxford Media Works),
Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media),
Kat Meyer (O'Reilly Media)
The tag cloud featured on the Tools of Change for Publishing blog is an organic representation of the important topics, companies and themes that consistently bubble up in TOCcoverage: e-readers, ebooks, mobile devices, revenue streams (or lack thereof), and more.
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