O'Reilly Radar » Kat Meyer http://radar.oreilly.com Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:51:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 TOC Debate: Amazon vs Apple http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/amazon-vs-apple-ebook-toc-debate.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/amazon-vs-apple-ebook-toc-debate.html#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2011/08/amazon-vs-apple-ebook-toc-debate.html One day in the not-so-distant past, Joe Wikert and I had a semi-heated Skype argument about the publishing topic du jour. I knew I wouldn’t win, but as I continued to make my case Joe suddenly interrupted with the prescient statement: “This would make for a great webcast!”

Maybe it was just a clever way of disarming me, and if so — it worked. But no sooner did we end our Skype chat then I was on Twitter, inquiring of my bookish-techy tweeps, “Would you be interested in such a webcast?” The answer was “yes.” Joe jumped into the tweet fray and suggested the topic for what will be our first in the TOC Debates: Amazon vs. Apple.

Joe valiantly (ahem) volunteered to take up the cause of Amazon and act as Team Bezos. But, who, pray tell would be brave enough to stand up for Apple? The most eloquent arguer one could hope for — Ms. Booksquare herself — Kassia Krozser stepped up to the challenge to represent Team Jobs.

So, what began as a disagreement between colleagues has blossomed into what we think might become the most fun you can have fighting at work: the TOC Debates.

Register to attend the free Amazon vs Apple webcast.

As a bit of a preview, I offer a statement from each of the opponents (also available in audio form, above). As we say in Arizona, “Them’s fighting words …”

Joe Wikert (GM and Publisher, O’Reilly Media):

Joe WikertThis will be like shooting fish in a barrel. When I said I’d like to see a debate about Amazon vs. Apple’s ebook platforms, and said I’d take the Amazon position, I never thought I’d find someone who would represent Apple! Shortly after that, Amazon announced their Kindle Cloud Reader initiative. Wow, yet another point for my case! I have loads of respect for Kassia Krozser, but she’s got her work cut out for her. I’m very much looking forward to the debate as well as addressing questions from the audience.

Kassia Krozser, (proprietress of Booksquare.com):

Kassia Krozser
Joe may wish he chose the Apple side! I won’t deny that Amazon has many strengths, but they also have an amazing weakness: selective vision. The Kindle platform is based on an old, creaky format. Apple gets the web, and it gets the technology, hardware and software, that runs the web … which, we all know, will expand both our ability to read all kinds of books in digital format and our definition of a “book.”

Our first fight/debate takes place live via webcast on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 10am PT. Register for free here. And if you have ideas for publishing debates you’d like to see, please let me know.

TOC Debate: Amazon vs Apple — What began as a disagreement between colleagues has blossomed into the most fun you can have fighting at work: the TOC Debates. Our first debate, “Amazon vs. Apple,” features Joe Wikert and Kassia Krozser.

Join us on Thursday, September 15, 2011, at 10 am PT

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TOC hosting publishing startup showcase http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/12/toc-hosting-publishing-startup.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/12/toc-hosting-publishing-startup.html#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/12/toc-hosting-publishing-startup.html This year at TOC, we’re hosting our first ever Publishing Startup Showcase. Highlighting the startup ecosystem’s creativity and variety, the Showcase will give you a chance to get your company in front of a global community of leaders in the publishing and technology industries — as well as potential investors.

On Tuesday evening, February 15th, we’ll have approximately 20 publishing and publishing-related startups demoing in one large room. If your company is chosen to participate, we’ll provide you with a small table and room for two people to demo — you’ll bring a laptop (or two) and a founder (or two).

TOC attendees and a panel of judges from the investor community will have 50 minutes to visit the demos and listen to your pitches. We’ll sound a chime every five minutes, letting people know it’s time to circulate. As they walk around, attendees will vote on their favorite demos. At the end of the hour, the judges will announce their top picks, along with the audience favorite. These winning startups will then each give a pitch and have an on-stage conversation with the judges.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Relatively young publishing (and publishing-related) startups that aren’t drowning in investment (yet)
  • Companies incorporating new technologies and/or innovative business models in their approach to publishing.

If you’re selected:

  • You’ll supply your own laptop for the demos (we won’t provide power, so we recommend bringing two laptops)
  • Wireless Internet access will be available, so web-based demos are okay.
  • You’ll bring a maximum of two people (at least one of whom must be a founder or C-level equivalent)
  • The week prior to the event, you’ll supply us with a presentation of 2-4 slides that includes screenshots for your onstage pitch in case you are selected
  • You’ll receive a complementary TOC Day Pass that will get you into all of Tuesday’s keynotes, sessions, and events.

Submit your proposal by Jan. 10, 2011.

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Announcing TOC Bologna http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/announcing-toc-bologna.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/announcing-toc-bologna.html#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:14:07 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/11/announcing-toc-bologna.html bolognacbf.gifTOC is hitting the road again, and we could not be more pleased than to be teaming up with the folks at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for the first ever TOC Bologna. Details below, with more to come soon. Be sure to follow @TOCBologna for tweeted updates and info

From the official press release:

O’Reilly Media and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair today announce the first Tools of Change for Publishing event at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. TOC Bologna will be a one day conference held on Sunday 27 March 2011, focusing on digital and mobile technology. This new collaboration between O’Reilly Tools of Change and the Bologna Book Fair unites two well-known and professional event organizers to produce an inspirational conference. TOC Bologna will be a landmark event for children’s publishers, agents, writers and international book people who are looking for the best speakers and insight into this new digital era.

Andrew Savikas, VP of Digital Initiatives at O’Reilly Media:

O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing events have helped define the agenda for publishers seeking to understand the impact of digital and mobile technology on reading and the business of publishing. The mobile web is driving fundamental changes in modes of reading and sharing, and few audiences will adopt those new modes more quickly than digital natives coming of age immersed in that mobile web. We’re thrilled to be working with the Bologna Children’s Book Fair to bring the TOC message to the children’s book industry.

Roberta Chinni, Project Manager for the Bologna Bookfair:

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the top meeting place for the children’s book industry. We are delighted to be working with O’Reilly Media on this new conference. We aim to offer a lively and profitable debate on the issues that the industry is facing. It is fantastic to start 2011 with a conference about the digital book world so that we can explore the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 1, 2011. To receive more program information please email tocbologna@bolognafiere.it

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Open question: Do you trust market research surveys? http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/open-question-do-you-trust-mar.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/open-question-do-you-trust-mar.html#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/11/open-question-do-you-trust-mar.html open questionAs recently as last year, actual information about ebook consumers was nearly impossible to come by. But lately, throw a virtual rock in any direction and you’re likely to hit an ereading or ebook research report. Just yesterday Forrester released their latest such report, including very reportable and re-tweetable highlights such as:

  • 2010 will end with $966 million in ebooks sold to consumers.
  • By 2015, the industry will have nearly tripled to almost $3 billion, a point at which the industry will be forever altered.
  • Current ebook readers in the survey expect an average of 51 percent of the books they read will be ebooks
  • Four in 10 people who own or expect to buy an ereader shop at Amazon for physical books.
  • Exactly 50 percent of people who bought an ebook in the past month have bought ebooks from Amazon’s Kindle store.

On the same day, French management consultants Bain + Company reported that by 2015 between 15-20 percent of the book reading public will own electronic devices, and up to 25 percent of books will be sold in digital form. This nice sound bite was included with their press release: “Experimenting with new formats — non-linear, hybrid, interactive or social — is where opportunity lies.”

These are just the tips of the e-iceberg. The data and research are coming at an unprecedented pace from all manner of organizations, associations, private firms, and individuals.

Studies are great. Data is awesome. The ebook market has gone without much of either for far too long. But, could it be that in our thirst for consumer ereading information, we’re drinking down all this newly available data without stopping to check exactly what’s in it? The temptation with market research is to read the cherry-picked bullet points and stop there. We need to look closer. Sometimes the small print says a whole lot more than the sound bites. It’s important to understand the methodology behind the results, including factors such as:

  • How well-defined is the target population?
  • Is the sample being studied random?
  • How did the research group chose its random sample?
  • Was the sample size large enough to produce meaningful results?
  • Are the questions unbiased?

We’ve banged lightly on this drum before, but we thought it’d be nice, given so many new study summaries being released of late, to open up the topic for discussion.

So here goes:

Do you trust market research surveys? What would you need to know in order to make a key business decision based on survey results?

Feel free to chime in through the comments area. You’re also welcome to join us on Thursday during our first TOC LinkedIn Open House discussion, hosted by BookSwim.com’s Jeevan Padiyar. If you’re not already a member of TOC’s LinkedIn Group, it’s easy to sign up.


Also of interest: “eReading Survey Findings and Research: A Look Behind the Numbers,” a TOC 2011 panel to be moderated by Sarah Weinman.


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TOC 2011 preliminary program announced http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/toc-2011-preliminary-program-a.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/toc-2011-preliminary-program-a.html#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/11/toc-2011-preliminary-program-a.html TOC 2011The preliminary program for Tools of Change 2011 is now online.

In addition to traditional book publishers discussing their experiences from the trenches of change, TOC also brings in ideas from the wider global ecosystem.

Breakout sessions include:

  • Is There Such a Thing as a Good Business Model for Publishing These Days?
  • eTextbooks in Higher Education: Practical Findings to Guide the Industry
  • Can you Afford not to Consider Accessible Publishing Practices?
  • Data-driven Marketing and Product Development
  • Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues in the Digital Era
  • Build a Book API in an Afternoon, Using FluidDB
  • Improving Your Publishing Metadata and Delivery
  • See the rest of the preliminary lineup

Featured speakers

  • Ben Huh, I Can Has Cheezburger
  • Margaret Atwood, author and CEO of Syngrafii
  • Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired and author of “What Technology Wants”
  • See the full list of speakers

Save 15% on TOC 2011 registration with the code “TOC11RAD”


Thank you

Our gratitude goes out to the following people who helped review the 200+ proposals, and offered much-appreciated advice on shaping the content for TOC 2011:

  • Patricia Arancibia
  • Mark Bertils
  • Peter Brantley
  • Liza Daly
  • Kate Eltham
  • Dedi Felman
  • José Afonso Furtado
  • Heather McCormack
  • Kevin Shockey
  • Sarah Weinman
  • Sarah Wendell

We hope to see you in February

O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference
February 14-16, 2011
Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
New York, NY
www.toccon.com

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Bookish Techy Week in Review http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/bookish-techy-week-in-review.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/09/bookish-techy-week-in-review.html#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/09/bookish-techy-week-in-review.html As usual, the wonderful mixed-up world of things both bookish and techy offered plenty of notable news this week. Please enjoy…

While a Harris Interactive poll finds gadgets are good for the future of reading and readers…

E-Reader Users Buy, Read More Books

…The “Chronicle of Higher Education” offers a differing POV

Will the Book Survive Generation Text?

Many college-age sorts study their phones, put them away to try to focus on something else — the passing scenery outside the Amtrak train, a magazine, the old-fashioned book they’ve brought along — then yank the phones back out three or four minutes later and start tapping away again. Reading a book, however, requires concentration, endurance, the ability to disconnect from other connections. You have to be there rather than not there. Hyperwired young people may be making it to age 17 without acquiring that ability, let alone losing it.

CNET.com joins growing chorus of folks asking where is Google Editions?

Hey, what happened to Google Editions?

The article itself is a basic recap of the delays, along with recap of the spin from Google regarding the delays. But, there is a nice bit of logic-based speculation from the comments:

“No rush, because there are no tablets out there running Android 3.0 or ChromeOS, I would think. The two go hand in hand, yes?”

Privacy is a bit lacking in the cloud

Data in the Cloud Still Governed by Obsolete Privacy Laws

Technology companies and privacy advocates have been calling for Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) for years (see “Coalition of Tech Companies Wants to Give You Digital Due Process“). The law leaves consumers unprotected, they argue, and dampens the cloud computing sector’s economic prospects.

We have related coverage on ECPA reform over in the Gov 2.0 section.

What works best when crowdsourcing funding from Kickstarter

Crowdfunding? Kickstarter Has Some Advice

Kickstarter success story and indie publisher (Art Space Tokyo), Craig Mod was the impetus for this analysis of what works best when asking strangers for money.

Libraries are lending things that they borrowed

Which is so meta. But, possibly not all that legal.

Libraries and Netflix — Questionable Borrowing Practices From People Who Know From Borrowing

The practice boils down to university libraries purchasing fairly robust (in some cases, 16 discs at a time) subscriptions from Netflix, allowing them to have a strong virtual collection while also providing streaming capabilities so they can immediately fulfill requests.

Lonely Planet makes travel books for people like me

If you are directionally- and planning-challenged, you will like Lonely Planet’s new augmented reality guides. Apparently they’re also good for organized people who just like to learn while traveling.

Case Study: Lonely Planet’s augmented reality guides

The application pinpoints your exact location so that when you find yourself in a new city and want to know what there is to see and do around you, just look through the camera and a wealth of Lonely Planet information on the best destinations, accommodation, sites, bars and restaurants appear stuck like post-it notes to points of interest around you.

“Gourmet” returns as a socially interactive iPad app

A Look at the ‘Gourmet Live’ iPad App

Chock full of stories from the magazine (which Condé closed down last fall), recipes, videos and slideshows, “Gourmet Live” is free and content is available without registration.

However, Condé says users need to sign in to Facebook or Twitter in order to access the app’s interactive features. It’s this social aspect that Condé says sets “Gourmet Live” apart from other apps on the market right now.

And for rebellious Kindle readers out there: a jailbreak full of fabulous fonts.

Amazon’s Kindle Gets Jailbroken, Additional Font Options Now Available

Last minute reminder: TOC Frankfurt October 5!

A last-chance reminder: TOC Frankfurt is just around the corner. Hope you’ll be joining us October 5th for an incredible and international program of fabulous bookish tech featuring Jeff Jarvis, Doug Rushkoff, Andrew Savikas, Richard Nash, James Bridle, Kate Pullinger, Richard Padley, oh — just too many cool folks to mention here. Use discount code “TOC10BL” and receive a 20% discount (€399 + 19% VAT).

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A New Take on the Coffee Table Book http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/a-new-take-on-the-coffee-table.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/a-new-take-on-the-coffee-table.html#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:25:32 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/08/a-new-take-on-the-coffee-table.html cofftablebook.jpgIn one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes, Kramer comes up with the brilliant idea for a coffee table book with fold-down legs that makes it into a little coffee table–a coffee table book COFFEE TABLE book. Hilarious.

Today I receive a press release from the folks over at Sideways announcing, “Sideways Takes the Coffee Table-Style Book to the iPad.”

Huh, I think. That’s just silliness. How can an app be a coffee-table book? The coffee table book is an icon. The coffee table book is, by definition a big hardcover expensive book you keep on your coffee table. Right? Just in case there is some chance I am incorrect about this, I grab my iPad off my coffee table and check with Wikipedia, which backs me up, and I quote:

A coffee table book is a hardcover book that is intended to sit on a coffee table or similar surface in an area where guests sit and are entertained, thus inspiring conversation or alleviating boredom. They tend to be oversized and of heavy construction, since there is no pressing need for portability.

Thought so.

I email Charles Stack of Sideways. He calls me. I get to the point.

“Okay, Charles,” I say. “About this press release. How can you claim that an iPad app is a coffee table book? A coffee table book is a big heavy book you keep on your coffee table.” (I don’t go as far as telling him that I have verified this with Wikipedia).

And Charles, who (I soon learn) has an answer for everything, pipes right up:

“I have three kids and a wife. We have between us, two ipads. They are quite often on our coffee table. Sometimes I will be using one to play Sudoku, while my wife does a crossword puzzle on the other. Other times, we will use them to look up info about what’s on TV. Sometimes we use them to look up stuff we might be disagreeing about to prove each other wrong. The ipad is the new coffee table book.”

So, he’s being cute with me, eh? Before I have a chance to say, “Well, yeah but you know what I mean…,” Charles continues with the real answer, “Printed art books done well are about beautiful images. I spend a lot of time with them. But they don’t have that immersive quality of images viewed on an iPad. The experience is so different. The iPad really lends itself to contemplative browsing.”

Okay, okay – but that’s what the web is for, right – looking at pretty pictures can be easily done on the web already, yes?

Charles corrects me, “The web is NOT about contemplative browsing. The web is about ‘hunter’ browsing.” Which, I have to kind of agree with…web and contemplative – not so much. While I’m contemplating this, Charles goes on to explain some of the more practical features of the Sideways “coffee table book” platform:

Thumbnail image for mzl.wlodovtc.png“Printed art books are expensive for the publisher to produce, and they are expensive for the consumer to buy. With the Sideways platform, an art book house or museum can produce a ‘coffee table style book’ at a fraction of the price it would cost them to do a print version using the least expensive overseas printer.”

Okay, I guess I can not argue with that. It all sounds good. But, does it look good? Is it really a “coffee table book” worthy experience, this coffee table book-like app?

I check out photographer Diana Curran’s “coffee table book” app – created using the Sideways platform. And, it’s nice. It really is a contemplative experience. I can even see how this is not so much a cutesy play on “coffee table book,” but a valid reinterpretation of the term.

So, long story short, I won’t be getting rid of my big heavy gorgeous printed coffee table books, but I like the idea that I can now fit (and afford) a whole lot more “coffee table books” on my coffee table via my iPad.

Learn more about Sideways here.

The Diana Curran ‘Personal Gallery’ App on iTunes.

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TOC Announcement http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/toc-announcement.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/toc-announcement.html#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:40:46 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/08/toc-announcement.html The Tools of Change site will be undergoing some reorganizing and
streamlining over the next few weeks – the hopeful result of which will
be a much better experience for the TOC community.

Among the changes – we’ll be shutting down the TOC Ning site on August 30.

For those of you who have active blogs via the Ning site, we apologize for any inconvenience.

Additionally, we will be discontinuing the Directory and Resources sections of the TOC site.

For those of you looking for a platform for continuing the discussions
you’ve started on the TOC Ning site (or beginning altogether new
conversations!) we encourage you to join the TOC LinkedIn Group,
where well over 3,000 TOC LinkedIn members are actively engaged in
discussions about publishing, technology, and everything in between.

We’ll keep you posted with more news about the changes to the site — all good news!

Sincerely,

Kat Meyer
TOC Conference Co-Chair, and Community Manager

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The Tragic Death of Everything http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-tragic-death-of-everything.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-tragic-death-of-everything.html#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:20:33 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/08/the-tragic-death-of-everything.html webisdead.jpgDeath makes for good headlines, and those of us in the publishing world have been reading a lot of headlines lately about the death of everything from print, to bookstores, to ereaders, to publishing itself. What up with all the declaring everything dead all the time?

Recently over at the Technologizer, Harry McCracken has assembled a lovely list of all the gadgets, software and media that have, over the years, been prematurely declared dead by trigger-happy journalists and pundits.  McCracken was spurred by the most recent (and perhaps most obviously a ploy for media attention) claim – that by Wired’s Chris Anderson pronuouncing the Web is dead:

Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson is catching flack for the magazine’s current cover story,
which declares that the Web is dead.

I’m not sure what the controversy
is. For years, once-vibrant technologies, products, and companies have
been dropping like teenagers in a Freddy Krueger movie. Thank heavens
that tech journalists have done such a good job of documenting the
carnage as it happened. Without their diligent reporting, we might not
be aware that the industry is pretty much an unrelenting bloodbath.

McCracken’s article is a pretty funny and fascinating look at the phenomenon of things beging declared dead and then…not dying. Or, in his words, the article is a “moving recap of some of the stuff that predeceased the Web-you may want to bring a handkerchief.” Read the full article here.

Continue the Death Discussion with #FollowReader this Thursday: “Bring Out Your Dead”
jasonboog.jpgPersonally, I’m kind of sick of all the death hype. So much so, that I’ve enlisted Jason Boog of eBookNewser and GalleyCat to spend this Thursday’s #FollowReader (4pm EDT) with me investigating who or WHAT is behind all the false rumors and spurious insinuations that everything even remotely related to our industries is dying.

#FollowReader, sponsored by NetGalley (in cooperation with O’Reilly’s TOC), is a heck of a fun way for bookish, techy, publishing tweeps to gather together an hour each week on Twitter for a bookish, techy, publishing twittersation. Click here for some info on what to expect from this Thursday’s #FollowReader.

And we hope you’ll be joining us. Assuming, that is, you’re not dead yet.

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Reminder: TOC 2011 RFP Open Until September 9, 2010 http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/reminder-toc-2011-rfp-open-unt.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/reminder-toc-2011-rfp-open-unt.html#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:44:16 +0000 http://blogs.oreilly.com/radar/2010/08/reminder-toc-2011-rfp-open-unt.html The O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, happening February 14-16, 2011 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers,
is an inclusive meeting ground for exploring the options, a gathering
place for collaboration, and an unparalleled opportunity for in-person
inspiration. At TOC, stakeholders from across the book publishing and
tech industries will share ideas, engage in lively debate, and consider
the many issues we face individually and collectively.

Some of the topics we plan to include in the 2011 conference program are:

  • Reaching mobile readers: when your customers carry bookstores in their pockets
  • The real costs of digital book production
  • The value of creating quality metadata
  • Pricing and packaging digital content
  • Methods for gathering and understanding customers’ behavioral data (through web metrics and surveys)
  • Case studies of successful (or unsuccessful!) new publishing and digital initiatives
  • Case studies from implementing lessons learned at a previous TOC Conference
  • Strategies and tactics for incorporating print-on-demand (including the espresso book machine) into a supply chain
  • Tools and challenges for an efficient all-digital workflow
  • When digital is NOT the answer: Startups using old means of production with new business models
  • Revising your P&L’s for the economics of digital publishing
  • Understanding and responding to the changing retail landscape
  • Game plans for publishers transitioning from B2B to B2C transactions
  • Best practices for working with Amazon, Google, Apple, and other big Internet players
  • Best new practices and tools for working with and supporting authors during editorial, production and/or marketing phases
  • Systems and devices for displaying digital copy (demos welcome)
  • Business models for delivering and/or receiving material via new devices
  • Determining rights, sales, and royalty management: the challenges of an electronic global marketplace
  • XML, EPUB, RDF, and other TLA‘s (three-letter acronyms) decoded and explained
  • Using open-source tools to assemble a digital publishing workflow

Want to contribute to the discussion at a higher level? If so,  submit your proposal to speak at TOC 2011 by September 9, 2010.

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