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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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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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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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Matthew Kirschenbaum (University Maryland)
This talk will consider the collision of the born-digital and traditional belles-lettres. What happens to authors' original "manuscripts" when they're written electronically? Who saves multiple drafts and revisions of the files? Are writers beginning to turn over their computers to archives as part of their "papers?" What will happen when scholars work with this material years down the road?
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Kassia Krozser (Booksquare.com),
Angela James (Carina Press),
Sarah Wendell (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books LLC)
While the publishing industry waits for ebooks to become the next big thing, a thriving ebook market targeted largely toward women has developed a loyal reader base, moved into territory traditionally occupied by mainstream publishers, and changed the rules when it comes to pricing books and compensating authors for their work. Discover how you can learn from these success stories.
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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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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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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 Brantley (BookServer Project),
Susan Danziger (DailyLit),
Sol Rosenberg (Value Chain International, Ltd.),
David Wilk (Booktrix),
Caroline Vanderlip (SharedBook Inc.),
Jamie Carter (Publisher Alley)
We are in a transitional period: basic reading and distribution patterns are carrying over from traditional models, but these methods are also being shaped by new habits and systems that are only beginning to emerge. This panel will discuss the implications of this
reading/distribution transition, the new economics at play, and the impact technology will have on future reading.
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Walter Walker (codeMantra),
Melissa Lutchkus (CodeMantra, LLC)
Gone are the days when a book was simply a physical assembly of folded and gather pages, bound as a series of chapters in a case or paperback perfect binding. Gone are the days when the only formats publishers had to concern themselves with were hard cover, trade paperback or mass market paperback. In today’s world a book can be a file format;
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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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As digital content has become more available and more commonly
distributed in book publishing, fears of piracy and lost sales have
grown. The rise of peer-to-peer file sharing sites has likely
amplified these fears. While the debate over the impact of "free"
content has been at times heated, the discussions are more often than
not characterized by a lack of hard data.
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Gavin Bell (Nature)
Working the long tail of sales is an excellent plan in these leaner times. The other pieces are falling into place, ebooks and on demand printing, but how can you find out what is happening inside the long tail. Social networks are an effective means of interacting with your community. This talk will explain the what, why, and how of creating a successful community and how to make better books.
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John Broughton (Author of an O'Reilly book)
The book "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" teaches readers how to edit online Wikipedia articles. O'Reilly Media, the publisher, and the Wikimedia Foundation, the owner of Wikipedia, agreed to post this book online, on the Wikipedia website, as fully editable content. This talk discusses the challenges of getting a book into wiki format, to be editable, and what happened after the book went online.
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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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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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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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Mac Slocum (O'Reilly),
Kassia Krozser (Booksquare.com),
Kirk Biglione (Oxford Media Works),
Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media),
Kat Meyer (Next Chapter Communications)
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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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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