This past weekend, the second-ever BookCamp Toronto brought together publishing types of all sorts for a day of discussion, discovery, and drinking (the latter starting as early as 10:30 am, in Michael Tamblyn’s now-legendary Kobo Q&A/ summer wine tasting). The BookCamp “unconference” model is an intriguing contrast to the usual progression of talks/presentations/limited discussion time.
BISG's Making Information Pay 2010: The Highlights
A few of us from BNC made the trip to Manhattan for this year’s Making Information Pay from the Book Industry Study Group. This morning conference is always jam-packed with information, and this year was no exception.
Noah Genner 2009 in Review: Breathe
As many have already stated 2009 was a year full of change and innovation in the book authoring, publishing and retailing world. Digital was/is the agent of change…eBooks, eReaders (of all kinds), digital workflows and networks (be they social or internet)…for the industry in 2009. It really seemed that many digital areas that had been bubbling under for the last while came to a head in 2009…all at once.
The ACP's CPDS Digital Publishing Workshop
On December 9th and 10th I attended the ACP ’s CPDS (Canadian Publishers Digital Services) Digital Publishing Workshop, which focused on real solutions for the average Canadian publisher. I’m a BookNetter and not a publisher, but I managed to sneak my way into this workshop after I agreed to speak at it—more on that to follow.
This two-day workshop dived into the dirt of ePub production on day one and focused on practical solutions for digital workflow on day two.
Streamlining Metadata Workflow Paper
The NISO and OCLC have published a white paper on Streamlining Metadata Workflow [pdf] that looks very interesting. I haven’t had the opportunity to wade through all 22 pages yet (fun for the weekend), but it looks interesting and worth the effort.
Turning EPUB into Whatever You Want It to Be
XML in Adobe Creative Suite: Mark Logic Digital Summit
Zoho Saves Trees, Time, and Postage
Zoho.com, an up and comer in the world of online document creation, offers a wide selection of document types that you can create online, manage and share with your colleagues and friends.Digital News
While the London Book Fair was home to big news regarding digitization with Random House announcing their further rollout of digital books and Penguin announcing support for the open .epub standard, the IDPF BSIG (Business Special Interest Group) call this week centered around some practical guidelines for going forward with digitization.
Another Option for Adaptation
In light of this guest blog entry, by Elizabeth Spitz and Cristina Sadurni, two teenaged interns over at O’Reilly, expostulating to publishers the necessity of considering the new ways and reasons people, especially younger people, already carry on literacy in ways other than through reading books, I find the release of CommentPress 1.0 an interesting development in the future of content generation.
