Mac Slocum

Mac Slocum
Online Managing Editor, O'Reilly

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Mac Slocum is the Online Managing Editor for O’Reilly. He frequently writes about the intersection of publishing, technology and the digital transition. He’s worked as an online editor/producer/writer at a variety of outlets and he’s taught Web journalism and technology courses at Emerson College in Boston. His fascination with publishing and technology started in college when he put the student newspaper online (fortunately, that early effort has been expunged from the Internet record). Mac holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Richmond and a master’s in journalism from Emerson.

Sessions

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)
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
Topics from the TOC Tag Cloud
General
 Location: Empire-Hudson (7th Floor)
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. Read more.
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