Laura Dawson

Laura Dawson
Communications Chief, Firebrand Technologies

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Laura Dawson specializes in the technology behind books. She has worked at Doubleday, Muze, Barnes & Noble.com, SirsiDynix, and as an independent consultant whose clients have included the Book Industry Study Group, Audible, McGraw-Hill, Chuckwalla, Adobe, Loyola Press, Cengage and Scholastic. She is now Communications Chief at Firebrand Technologies, helping publishers organize and distribute their metadata and ebook titles.

Sessions

2:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009
XML Recommendations and Lessons Learned: The StartWithXML Project
General
 Location: Chelsea-Gotham (7th Floor)
Mike Shatzkin (The Idea Logical Company, Inc.), Laura Dawson (Firebrand Technologies), Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media), Ted Hill (THA Consulting)
Based on the results of six months of research, surveys, interviews, and analysis, the StartwithXML project offered a clear argument for developing intellectual property as XML documents from the outset. 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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