Liza Daly

Liza Daly
President, Threepress Consulting Inc.

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Liza Daly is the president of Threepress Consulting and an experienced software engineer in digital publishing. In 2008 she developed Bookworm, one of the first open source epub readers, which is now hosted and sponsored by O’Reilly Media. In 2010 she is launching Ibis Reader, a cross-platform, HTML5-based mobile web reading system.

Threepress Consulting provides expert ebook strategy and software for publishers, authors and vendors.

Liza is a strong advocate for experimentation, agile development, and innovation in publishing.

Sessions

11:35am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Building a Better Web-based Book
General
 Location: Broadway South (6th Floor)
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. Read more.
11:00am Wednesday, 02/11/2009
Survey of Current E-Readers
General
 Location: Empire-Hudson (7th Floor)
Liza Daly (Threepress Consulting Inc.), 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. Read more.
Sponsors
  • Impelsys Inc.
  • Ingram Industries
  • oXygen XML Editor
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • codeMantra
  • Connotate
  • DPCI
  • Innodata Isogen, Inc.
  • LibreDigital
  • Lulu
  • Malloy
  • Mark Logic
  • Media Services Group
  • Quark, Inc.
  • ReadHowYouWant
  • RSuite
  • Safari Books Online
  • Smashwords, Inc.
  • Sterling Commerce
  • Verso Digital

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