Sebastopol, CA, November 4, 2009 - The digital transformation in reading, writing, and publishing is happening faster than many imagined, fueled by the explosive growth of the mobile web. The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference explores the new digital realities of publishing February 22-24, 2010, at the Marriot Marquis in New York City. With an emphasis on what the changing nature of creating, selling, distributing, finding, and reading books means for publishers and readers alike, conference chair Andrew Savikas has announced the program, and early registration has opened.
Now in its fourth year, the O'Reilly TOC Conference remains the best place to find insight into the innovators creating the future of publishing—innovators who often come from well outside the boundaries of traditional publishing circles. From authoring, editing, and layout to distribution and consumption, technology is shaping every aspect of our industry. TOC explores these changes through plenary and keynote presentations, focused breakout sessions, workshops, and networking events.
The program continues to grow, but already includes:
Keynotes:
- Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions
- Ramy Habeeb, co-founder of Kotobarabia
- Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- Frances Pinter of Bloomsbury Academic
- Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive
- John Temple, former editor and publisher of The Rocky Mountain News
- Jeff Gomez of Starlight Runner Entertainment
- Scott Sigler of Taxi Communications, LLC
Sessions:
- Chris Brogan of New Marketing Labs: "Hacking The Hallowed—Book Promotion off the Cuff"
- Edward Colleran of Copyright Clearance Center: "Copyright-In-Motion"
- Lisa Shannon of Wiley: "Going Beyond eBooks: One Publisher's Journey from a Book to Training, Print to Digital"
- Rick Joyce of Perseus Books Group: "Ten Secrets of Digital Publishing No One Will Tell You"
- Caren Milloy of JISC Collections: "How Academics and Students Use e-Books: Evidence from the JISC National e-Books Observatory Project"
- Allison Belan of Duke University Press: "Bootstrapping Digital Publishing: How One Resource-Strapped Publisher Conquered XML"
- Bob Carlton of LibreDigital: "The Digital Marketing Wave: Handselling in a Networked World"
- Angelina Ward of Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier: "Lessons Learned from TOC 2009"
- Joe Wikert of O'Reilly Media, Inc.: "Looking beyond the $9.99 Ebook"
- Stephanie Williams, Mandy Chalou, and Joseph Wicentowski of The Department of State: "Open Government Comes to the Department of State: The Office of the Historian's Digital Publishing Revolution"
Workshops:
- Mike Hendrickson of O'Reilly Media, Inc.: "Twitter Scorecard for Publishers"
- Bill Kasdorf of Apex Content Solutions: "Rich Media Roundup: Promising Projects, Emerging Standards"
- Nilofer Merchant of Rubicon: "Reinvent as an Economic Necessity"
- Joshua Tallent of eBook Architects: "Practical eBook Formatting: Limitations and Optimizations"
Companies sponsoring and exhibiting at TOC 2010 presently include Ingram, iPublish Central, Innodata Isogen, Adobe, Aptara, Connotate, Malloy, Jacquette Consulting, Silverchair, Vitrium Systems, Smashwords, Digital Divide Data, Easy Press, Scientific Publishing, Typefi, and The Media Services Group.
Early registration savings end January, 2010.
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For articles, blogs, photos, videos, and speaker presentation files from last year's event, go to the TOC 09 news and coverage page at:
toccon.com/toc2009/public/content/news-coverage
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- Web 2.0 Expo New York in New York City, Nov. 16-19, 2009, co-produced with TechWeb
- O'Reilly Where 2.0 Online Conference - Fall 09, December 3, 2009 9:00am - 12.30pm PST
- O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, CA, March 30-April 11, 2010
- Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco in San Francisco, CA, May 3-6, 2010, co-produced with TechWeb
- Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, DC, May 25-27, 2010, co-produced with TechWeb
- RailsConf in Baltimore, MD, June 7-10, 2010
- O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, CA, June 22-24, 2010
- OSCON in Portland, OR, July 19-23, 2010
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