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TOC 2012: LeVar Burton, Libraries and The Bookstore of the Future
O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change conference returned to New York with a typical high profile slate focused on publishing innovation driven by technology and a new vision of just what publishing can mean.
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TOC 2012: Executive Roundtable Debates the Way Ahead
O’Reilly Media executives were hoping for a lively dialogue between panelists and the audience at the first-ever Tools of Change executive roundtable held at Random House's New York City headquarters Monday.
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Digital Book World 2012: All Our Coverage
All of our coverage of the 2012 Digital Book World Conference in one place.
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Digital Book World: New Retail Channels, The Library e-Book Wars and Bundling
The last day of Digital Book World wrapped up with a panel looking at efforts to create new retail channels for book content.
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Digital Book World: Now is the Best Time to Be an Author
During Digital Book World's panel on self-publishing, Who Dares Win Publshing's Bob Mayer said: "If you have good content, now is the best time to be a writer."
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Digital Book World: Consumers, Data and Analytics in the Digital Book Era
“Books today are elastic and dynamic,” said Hyperion president Ellen Archer on the CEO panel at Digital Book World. “No more just hardcover and softcover,” she said, “there are new ways to enhance books.”
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Wary but Determined, Publishers are Preparing for the Digital Future
According to Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey, who kicked off this year's Digital Book World conference, a survey conducted by Forrester in collaboration with DBW found that while 82% of publishers were optimistic about digital, the number was down from 89% last year.
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At ALA Midwinter, Librarians Hear Messages of “Empowerment”
When Molly Raphael became president of the American Library Association in 2011, she unveiled an agenda that focused on empowerment—and at the ALA 2012 Midwinter Meeting in Dallas, TX, “empowerment” has been an overarching theme.
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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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