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Report from TOC2013 – Mastering Kindle Fixed Layout eBooks
Joshua Tallent (eBook Architects, now Firebrand Technologies) The new Kindle Fire HD tablets and the exciting advancements in fixed layout capabilities available in KF8 have expanded the digital...
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Breaking news: Amazon to release new tool for comic creation
Amazon KC2 Joshua Tallent just announced it on behalf of Amazon: Amazon is releasing a tool for creating comic book more easily. This tool is called Kindle Comic Creator (KC2). Comics are not as...
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Report from TOC2013 – UPFRONT XHTML: For Workflow, Not Just the Web
Panel with Dave Cramer (Hachette Book Group), Stefan Hermann (infinity-loop GmbH), Bill Kasdorf (Apex Content Solutions), Denis Saulnier (Harvard Business Publishing). Think XHTML is just for your...
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Report from TOC2013 – The Challenges of Distributing Digital Content to...
Talk from Karen Tripp (O’Reilly Media). You’ve created your ebook files – now what? With all of the sales channels now available for ebooks, figuring out how to distribute your files to the various...
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Report from TOC2013 – UX Design for Digital Books: Creating Engaging Digital...
Meagan Timney (Blurb, Inc.) As the publishing landscape stands at the precipice of change, authors are in a unique position to create not just “eBooks” or “screen-based books,” but holistic and...
View ArticleExclusive demo: Hachette’s publishing platform
Demoed today at TOC2013, the platform Hachette is using to publish its eBooks. To read more, read my previous post on Hachette.
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Report from TOC2013 – Second day plenary session
The plenary session is divided in six sub sessions. The most expected one, at least for me, is going to be Tim O’Reilly. I’ve heard the man speak several times, he’s not always proven right but at...
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Tim O’Reilly on being positive at TOC2013. For a more extended coverage of the plenary read my coverage.
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Report from TOC2013 – Open Standards in the Walled Garden
Amanda Gomm (Digital Bindery), Tom McCluskey (Digital Bindery) Using reading systems by Adobe, Apple, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and the IDPF we will show how an EPUB file is interpreted differently...
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Report from TOC2013 – Lean Publishing: The Future of Publishing, for Authors...
Peter Armstrong (Leanpub) In this talk, Peter Armstrong will present the ideas of Lean Publishing. Lean Publishing is the act of publishing an in-progress ebook using lightweight tools and many...
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Report from TOC2013 – Book as API
With Hugh McGuire (PressBooks / LibriVox / Iambik ), Alistair Croll (Solve For Interesting) While we have gone from print to ebook, there is still much potential of digital that ebooks don’t allow,...
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Report from TOC2013 – Designing And Creating A Social Book App Using...
Haig Armen (Emily Carr University of Art + Design) Canadian designer, Haig Armen will share the strategy, design and technology used to create a new approach to a digital book – a social book. Why...
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Report from TOC2013 – Collaborating With Technology Startups
By Javier Celaya (University of Alcala (Madrid) and Dosdoce.com) Partnering with newly born digital companies will allow publishing companies to gain access to innovative new products and services well...
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Report from TOC2013 – Information Wants to be Shared
By Joshua Gans (Rotman School of Management). The publishing industry is facing large changes as digitization continues to transform the industry. In this session, we will explore the economics of...
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Report from TOC2013 – Creators and Technology Converging: When Tech Becomes...
Moderated by Kat Meyer (O’Reilly Media, Inc. ) with the following panel: Todd Boss (Motionpoems), Louis-Jacques Darveau (The Alpine Review), Eli Horowitz (The Silent History), Kate Pullinger (Bath Spa...
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Report from TOC2013 – Last plenary session
Startups winner first: Paperight, CartoDB, Borne Digital, Paperight is allowing copy shops to print books legally, they are pretty successful in South Africa. CartoDB is a vizualization tools for...
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Welcome PBC Attendees!
Today marks the first day of the Publishing Business Conference 2013 in New York. This event is meant to be the nation’s largest gathering of publishing minds. You can find more information on...
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A day at Publishing Business Conference
It is true that, when I cover a conference, I usually write smaller articles, but, silly me, I forgot my iPad mini at home and while she gets a nice vacation (my iPad is a “she”), I miss her for doing...
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