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8:30am Monday, 02/09/2009

Tutorial
Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)

Michael Smith (International Digital Publishing Forum), Kenneth Brooks (Cengage Learning), Leslie Hulse (HarperCollins Publishers), Cynthia Cleto (Springer Science+Business Media)

Average rating:

(3.64, 14 ratings)

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. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 02/09/2009

Building Communities Around Content

Tutorial
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Francois Gossieaux (Beeline Labs & Society for New Communications Research), Ed Moran (Deloitte Services LP)

Average rating:

(3.83, 6 ratings)

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. Read more.

8:45am Tuesday, 02/10/2009

A Book is a Place...

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Bob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book)

Average rating:

(3.10, 20 ratings)

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9:15am Tuesday, 02/10/2009

Literature as a (Web) Service

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Peter Brantley (BookServer Project)

Average rating:

(2.81, 16 ratings)

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. Read more.

9:45am Tuesday, 02/10/2009

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com)

Average rating:

(4.43, 21 ratings)

TBD Read more.

11:35am Tuesday, 02/10/2009

The Google Settlement: Opportunities for Publishers through New Online Business Models

Products & Services
Location: Harlem (7th Floor)

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? Read more.

1:40pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009

The Rise of eBooks

General
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Mark Coker (Smashwords, Inc.), Joe Wikert (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), April Hamilton (April Hamilton), David Rothman (TeleRead.org), Russell Wilcox (E Ink)

Average rating:

(3.75, 8 ratings)

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. Read more.

2:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009

Smart Women Read eBooks

General
Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)

Kassia Krozser (Booksquare.com), Angela James (Carina Press), Sarah Wendell (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books LLC)

Average rating:

(4.75, 4 ratings)

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. Read more.

4:00pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009

What Would Google Do with Publishing?

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com)

Average rating:

(3.72, 18 ratings)

TBD Read more.

4:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009

Manifesto 2.0: What Does the Future Look Like for Publishers?

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Sara Lloyd (Pan Macmillan)

Average rating:

(3.62, 13 ratings)

Exploring a book publisher's manifesto for the twenty first century. Read more.

5:00pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009

Jason Fried

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Jason Fried (37signals)

Average rating:

(3.27, 11 ratings)

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5:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009

Technology and Human Nature

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Jason Epstein (On Demand Books)

Average rating:

(2.88, 8 ratings)

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8:45am Wednesday, 02/11/2009

Building a New World Publishing Business: Lessons from Stanza

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Neelan Choksi (Lexcycle)

Average rating:

(4.22, 9 ratings)

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. Read more.

9:15am Wednesday, 02/11/2009

The Narrative is Changing: Sensors, Social Editors and the New Storytelling

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Nick Bilton (The New York Times R&D Labs)

Average rating:

(4.67, 12 ratings)

TBD Read more.

9:45am Wednesday, 02/11/2009

Reasons To Be Excited

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)

Average rating:

(4.00, 11 ratings)

TBD Read more.

11:00am Wednesday, 02/11/2009

CEO Roundtable: The Changing Role of the Publisher

General
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Joe Wikert (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Clint Greenleaf (Greenleaf Book Group), Michael Hyatt (Thomas Nelson), Bob Young (Lulu.com), Eileen Gittins (Blurb)

Average rating:

(3.80, 5 ratings)

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? Read more.

11:50am Wednesday, 02/11/2009

Challenging Notions of "Free"

General
Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)

Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media), Mac Slocum (O'Reilly), Chelsea Vaughn (Random House)

Average rating:

(4.25, 4 ratings)

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. Read more.

3:40pm Wednesday, 02/11/2009

Blogging as a Tool for Change

General
Location: Chelsea-Gotham (7th Floor)

Michael Hyatt (Thomas Nelson)

Average rating:

(4.00, 4 ratings)

Veteran blogger Michael Hyatt shares the basics of blogging. He will share why he believes blogging is an important tool for businesses today and then introduce how to get started blogging. Read more.

5:00pm Wednesday, 02/11/2009

Good News from the Worst Writing Contest in the World

Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

Chris Baty (NaNoWriMo)

Average rating:

(4.33, 3 ratings)

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. Read more.