For the first year, TOC Frankfurt, the technology conference held by the Frankfurt Book Fair and O'Reilly Media, will feature a track on the supply chain. TOC Frankfurt, which is in its third year and set to take place in Germany the day before the book fair, on October 11, will be working on the supply chain programming with the international publishing standards organization, EDItEUR. Among the speakers set for the supply track are EDItEUR's executive editor, Mark Bide, and Nielsen Book's Jonathan Nowell.

TOC will also, this year, adding a half-day event to its program, organizing a workshop called Social Media Meets Publishing on October 13 that will feature, among other things, social media marketing case studies.