Bill Kasdorf

Bill Kasdorf
Vice President, Apex Content Solutions

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Bill Kasdorf is General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, a major print and online reference work published by Columbia University Press, and Vice President of Apex Content Solutions, a leading supplier of business services, data conversion, editorial, production, and support services to publishers and other organizations worldwide. With his colleagues at Apex and strategic partners, Bill provides comprehensive workflow and business process consulting that enables his clients to transform their content and processes through the use of best-of-breed technologies, services, and practices, resulting in faster throughput, better staff utilization, lower costs, and richer, more dynamic content. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Bill has led seminars and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations such as SSP, Seybold Seminars, O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC), the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), and the Library of Congress.

Sessions

Tutorial
Location: Columbia -Duffy (7th Floor)
Norman Walsh (Mark Logic Corporation ), Bill Kasdorf (Apex Content Solutions), Bob Kelly (The American Physical Society), John Gardner (ViewPlus Technologies, Inc.), Marisa DeMeglio (DAISY Consortium)
This tutorial will demonstrate practical solutions for producing content in formats that are friendly to a wide audience while still maintaining quality. Focusing on different models of "book" presentation, we'll explore everything from eBook and audio book production to DAISY, SVG, and even VoiceML generation, demonstrating how all of these advances in publishing tie into XML accessibility. 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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