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Tools of Change 2011: At Morning Keynote, Margaret Atwood Reminds Attendees Change Can Be Bad
Amid the usually tech-oriented publishing talks, the audience welcomed Atwood like a breath of literary fresh air. But, unlike another acclaimed literary giant, John Updike, who famously railed against technology at BEA in 2006, the bestselling Atwood was humorous and insightful, and did not take issue with the culture of technology, but with the economic uncertainty the digital transition is causing for authors and publishers.
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Tools of Change 2011: Technology Wars Never End
The 2011 Tools of Change Conference yesterday kicked off its first year in its new, larger home at the Sheraton in midtown Manhattan. Conference organizers say it is another sold-out show, with total attendance at an all time high. Yesterday’s workshop day featured in-depth sessions on designing iPad apps, the state of publishing standards, the latest tweaks to ePub, metadata, an HTML5 workshop, and look at the "e-book Wars."
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Digital Book World, 'PW' Present Self-Publishing Webcast
On February 22, Digital Book World and Publishers Weekly will present a free webcast titled “The Evolution of Self-Publishing” at 1 p.m. EST. The webcast will discuss how self-publishing is empowering authors and disintermediating publishers, and the impact it is having on the marketplace, especially where e-books are concerned.
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Digital Book World By the Numbers
$1.3 billion: Estimated consumer spending on e-books in 2011...
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It's a Digital Book World
There was no shortage of debates and discussions at last week's second annual Digital Book World, where about 1,300 members of the trade publishing industry turned out in New York to explore ways to navigate the digital transition.
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Digital Book World 2011 Coverage Roundup
Here's all our daily coverage of the 2011 Digital Book World conference.
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Digital Book World: Can Publishers Create “Cradle-to-College” Bond with Kids?
In today's connected, social media world, kids are increasingly becoming empowered consumers. So how are publishers looking to connect with kids in the digital age--and what works? A Digital Book World panel moderated by Kristen McLean, founder and CEO of Bookigee.com, assembled a slate of heavy hitters to discuss a critical question: what are the challenges and opportunities as technology begins to change the way publishers and kids connect?
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Digital Book World: e-Royalties, Amazon and the Shape of Things To Come
In what has become a crowded digital conference circuit, Digital Book World seems to have solidified its importance to the industry with an impressive turnout.
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Digital Book World: Multimedia, Kids' Apps and the Rise of a New Form
The final day of Digital Book World brought together four publishers at the forefront of combining technology and content to create a new form of “book” that combines video, animation, audio and text in a software package that can be continually updated with new features even as it generates data about how it’s being used.
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Digital Book World: Google Says eBook Program Is Off to a Good Start
Among the tidbits offered by Google Books product manager Abraham Murray at Digital Book World yesterday: the free Google eBooks app was installed over a million times in the first few weeks, and Google eBook readers are reading what everyone else is reading, like Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points.
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Digital Book World: Examining the State of the E-Book
On the same day that the president delivered his state of the union speech, Digital Book World offered its own look at the state of the e-book, be it enhanced, amplified or what have you. The afternoon session, Delivering Enhanced e-books, offered a look at a variety of successful multimedia-driven e-book products including presentations by Hachette (Ansel Adams app), Penguin (Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth) and S&S (Nixonland).
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Digital Book World: Publishing CEOs Optimistic About the Future
The five publishing executives who took part on Digital Book World’s CEO panel Tuesday morning all agreed that while the industry is undergoing unprecedented changes, their companies are moving to adapt to new realities.
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Tools of Change, 2011 Preview
It's that time of year again—time for the New York edition of the Tools of Change conference, the digital publishing meeting, February 14–16, at the New York Marriott Hotel.
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Moving Bits and Atoms: Tablets Rule CES 2011
If it's possible to identify a single moment of clarity at a convention that attracts more than 140,000 people, then I'd point to Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walter Mossberg's talk at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Looking for Comics at CES 2011
Techies and the digiterati in general are known to often be big comics fans, but after searching high and low for any kind of comics presence at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, all we found were super cute flash drives and promotional displays.
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CES 2011: What We Liked and All The Other Stuff
This year's Consumer Electronics Show drew huge crowds to the Las Vegas Convention Center--preliminary figures report more than 140,000 attendees--not to mention the presentation of a record number of tablet computing devices. While the vast majority of these devices aren’t solely or even predominantly for reading, much like last year's CES, reading is once again featured as a critical aspect of what is arguably a technological revolution in computing.
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CES 2011: Tablets, Education and the Cost of Moving Bits and Atoms
Although there's plenty of talk about 3D TVs and wireless systems for cars at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, tablet computing is clearly the major trend at the show. And while Blackberry and Motorola presented new and impressive tablets, the show really seemed to revolve around Apple, a company that doesn’t exhibit at CES, and the iPad, a device that, in less than a year, seems to have set the standard for how a tablet computing device should perform.
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Hit and Miss and More: MediaBistro’s eBook Summit Returns
The second annual Mediabistro eBook Summit was a little like the e-book market itself: some of it hit, some missed and some of the day’s presentations were decidedly mixed. Morning keynote speaker and media scholar Doug Rushkoff complained that technology created "too much crap," while Electric Literature's Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum gave a rousing afternoon presentation unveiling their new venture, Broadcastr, a digital, mobile platform set to go live next week that will enable people around the world to record oral stories and link them to their geographical locations.
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Digital Book World Announces Publishing Innovation Awards
Digital Book World has announced a new awards program focused on e-books and book apps. The Publishing Innovation Awards will recognize the best e-books and book apps for their origination, development, production, design, and marketing.
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There is a Need for Speed, D.C. TiE Panel Says
Getting digital content adapted quickly to as many different devices and consumers as possible was the clear message that came through last Tuesday at the TiE-DC (The International Entrepreneurs) Education Panel held at the Top of the Town in Arlington, Va. Dev Ganesan, CEO of Aptara, moderated the discussion.
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