Schedule: Keynote sessions

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8:45am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
A Book is a Place...
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Bob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book)
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9:15am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Literature as a (Web) Service
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation)
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. Read more.
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9:45am Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Cory Doctorow (Happy Mutants LLC)
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4:00pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009
What Would Google Do with Publishing?
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com)
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4:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Manifesto 2.0: What Does the Future Look Like for Publishers?
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Sara Lloyd (Pan Macmillan)
Exploring a book publisher's manifesto for the twenty first century. Read more.
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5:00pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Jason Fried
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Jason Fried (37signals)
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5:30pm Tuesday, 02/10/2009
Technology and Human Nature
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Jason Epstein (On Demand Books)
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8:45am Wednesday, 02/11/2009
Building a New World Publishing Business: Lessons from Stanza
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
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. Read more.
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9:15am Wednesday, 02/11/2009
The Narrative is Changing: Sensors, Social Editors and the New Storytelling
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Nick Bilton (The New York Times R&D Labs)
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9:45am Wednesday, 02/11/2009
Reasons To Be Excited
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
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5:00pm Wednesday, 02/11/2009
Good News from the Worst Writing Contest in the World
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
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. Read more.
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5:25pm Wednesday, 02/11/2009
The Open-Source Coffee Table Book: Publishing Pop Culture in the Digital Age
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)
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. Read more.
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