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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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Matt Jacobson (Connotate),
Michael Hunziker (Interactive Data Corporation)
Interactive Data deployed hundreds of intelligent software Agents to address the recurring manual processes of data monitoring, collection, alerting and file download. Connotate’s Agents increased overall quality and timeliness of data while reducing staff hours required for daily processing. Acting as productivity amplifiers, Agents deliver strong ROI by enabling a “Work Smarter” culture.
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Patricia Albanese (Rochester Institute of Technology),
Matthew Bernius (Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology),
Michael Riordan (Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology),
Tona Henderson (Rochester Institute of Technology)
RIT's Open Publishing Lab will present a suite of open-source applications, currently under development, that enhance and extend current publishing platforms, including a tool to automatically convert wikis and blogs into ready-to-print books, Drupal extensions that allow near-instantaneous news gathering and publishing across multiple media, and a game that uses print to enable social networking.
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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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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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Is $9.99 the new "normal" for ebook pricing? Or is the sweet spot
closer to $3.99, or $1.99, through the iTunes store? As the age of
ebooks dawns, publishers are struggling to find pricing that works for
their customers and their business models.
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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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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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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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Michael Healy (Book Industry Study Group),
Andrew Van Der Laan (Random House, Inc.),
Kevin Spall (Thomson Shore)
This session will feature a round-table discussion with industry
experts explaining the ways in which the book industry is responding
to the mounting pressure to "green the presses."
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Michael Hyatt (Thomas Nelson)
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.
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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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