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ALA Midwinter Meeting Opens in Dallas
The 2012 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting opened Friday evening in Dallas with a reception on the exhibit floor. Although pre-registration numbers are slightly lower than previous years, nearly 10,000 librarians, publishers, authors, and vendors are expected.
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Executives Welcomed to TOC Roundtable
The first Tools of Change executive roundtable still has some seats available for executives who will be in New York February 13, the day before the official kickoff of this year’s Tools of Change conference.
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Print or Digital? ebrary Set to Discuss Student Survey Results on Friday
E-book vendor ebrary announced this week that it will discuss the initial results of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey on Friday November 4, at the Charleston Conference’s “Lively Lunch” session, and simultaneously online via a free webinar.
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Digital Transition Questions Examined at Books in Browsers Conference
Asking not only what the future of the book might be, but how to make “beautiful books” in digital formats, last week’s Books in Browsers conference in San Francisco brought together an array of digital visionaries, entrepreneurs, developers, bureaucrats and activists.
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PW Livestream of the Books in Browsers Event
Peter Brantley’s Books in Browsers conference is going on right now, October 27-28, in San Francisco and PW is livestreaming the event from our Web site. To hear what some of the industry’s most innovative people are working on, tune in to the event on this page.
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Kindle Fire and the Future of E-reading
What better place to be the day after Amazon unveiled its $199 Kindle Fire tablet (plus three Kindle models starting at $79) than a conference on e-readers? Intertech’s two-day eReaders 2011 conference examined a fast-changing digital reading marketplace.
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Book Clubs Go Digital with Skype
Meg Wolitzer, author of the bestselling novel The Uncoupling, recently participated in a book club event hosted by Skype, which allowed clubs in ten different locations to participate.
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Two Bookstats Webcasts Set
The BookStats data team will provide two comprehensive webcasts on industry trends: one on August 31 and one on September 7. To register, please go here for the August 31 webast and here for the September 7 webcast.
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Webinar Covers Possibilites in Indian Publishing Market
An interactive webinar will be held on September 8 to provide an overview of the Indian market, the fastest growing English language market in the world--and provide valuable information for U.S. publishers on trends and data.
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Last Call for Digital Textbooks Webcast
Industry members have one more day to sign up for the Publishers Weekly/ Digital Book World free Webcast Tuesday, "Digital Textbooks: Innovations From the Academic Business Model."
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New Webcast to Explore Workflow Opportunities
The next Webcast in the Publishers Weekly/Digital Book World series, New Workflows for Editorial and Production, will take place July 12 at 1 p.m. EDT.
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CleanSlate 2011: One-Day Tablet Computing Confab Debuts July 19
Taking measure of the market frenzy surrounding tablet computing devices, the Consumer Electronics Association, is sponsoring CleanSlate 2011, a one-day conference focused on the impact of tablet computing devices on media consumption.
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E-Book Distribution and Indie Presses Webcast Set for Tuesday
Tomorrow, June 21, is the next Webcast in the monthly Digital Book World/Publishers Weekly series. Set for 1 p.m. EDT, E-book Distribution for Indie Publishers will examine how indie presses with limited resources can most effectively take advantage of the explosive growth in e-book sales. Featured panelists are John Oakes, cofounder of the digital-first startup OR Books; industry consultant Tom Woll; and Adam Salomone, associate publisher of The Harvard Common Press, and responsible for the company’s digital strategy. DBW’s Matthew Mullin will moderate.
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There Are No Silly Tweets: Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters Conference New York
The 140 Characters Conference, internet entrepreneur Jeff Pulver’s free-wheeling presentation of the endless ways that Twitter and social media are transforming contemporary life, returned to New York’s 92nd Street Y with its usual frenzied combination of visionary social transformation and no-nonsense marketing strategies. Among the many and varied presenters this year were Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, N.J.; Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and Ian J. Spector, the web entreprenuer, cognitive neuroscientist, and author, who wrote a series of books based on hilarious fake facts about actor Chuck Norris that have sold millions of copies.
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BEA 2011: New Kobo and Other Points Rise Up at IDPF
The morning session at this year's Digital Book 2011, the International Digital Publishing Forum's annual conference, held in conjunction with BookExpo America, was highlighted by Kobo v-p Michael Tamblyn's announcement of a new $130 e-ink touchscreen reading device coming from Kobo in June. The audience at the packed event was also treated to a smart and mildly contentious discussion between the panelists on the publishers' round table—Dominique Raccah, Evan Schnittman, and Richard Nash—as they surveyed their own experiences grappling with the changes sweeping over an industry in transition to digital delivery.
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Code Meet Print NY: Cold Beer, Power Point and the Future of Reading
This recent meetup event offered a smart and informal gathering focused on “the intersection of texts + tech” with presentations from several literary/digital startups focused on creating new interfaces and business models for reading.
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BISG’s Making Information Pay: Digital Workflows, Rights Management and The Future of Publishing
In his keynote to this year’s Book Industry Study Group’s Making Information Pay conference, Hachette COO Ken Michaels used his company as an example of a “21st century content provider,” detailing Hachette’s embrace of the digital transformation and outlining the critical steps that enabled its implementation. But it was BISG’s joint survey on rights management systems (or the lack of them) that provided the day’s most compelling presentation, offering a sobering assessment of the state of rights management in legacy book publishing, a situation described as “a vast problem.”
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Bologna 2011: Surveying the Digital Landscape for 'Generation Angry Birds'
From O'Reilly Media's Joe Wikert's opening remarks saying "it's all about storytelling" to Mondadori's Laura Donnini ending comment of "We sell dreams," content was the word participants kept coming back to, at the inaugural Tools of Change Bologna, the day before the opening of the Bologna Book Fair.
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SXSWi: All We Got Was a Bunch of New Paradigms
The term "publishing" has become a charged word. And it's more than just semantics. To those in the traditional publishing industry—we found ourselves having to say "traditional publishing" often at South by Southwest Interactive's whirl of seminars, panels, and meetups—a publisher is a company that publishes books.
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