Interestingly, this year's
BEA Digital Zone also featured a few startups whose products were still in development, but who had come to the event to display their «coming attractions» for ebooks and digital publishing.
3M Cloud Library was set up in
the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership with Smashwords that puts the ebook distributor's titles in the catalog for libraries to choose from.
Not exact matches
Peter McCarthy of McCarthy
Digital will kick off Publishers Launch
BEA with a presentation about moving beyond our standard understanding of «industry data» to mining and analyzing the massive amounts of public data about readers: who they are and where they are.
«
BEA's Content &
Digital Conference provides a significant added value for every participant and we look forward to adding more content in the weeks to come.»
Smashwords» CEO Mark Coker spoke to groups of authors at the
BEA Author Hub about the options open to writers in the climate of
digital publishing.
In conference programming, Anderson is program director for the 2015 International
Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) «
Digital Book» Conference that opened BookExpo America (
BEA) in New York; the «First Word» conference at Novelists Inc. in St. Pete Beach; and The Bookseller's inaugural FutureBook 2015 Author Day, scheduled for 30th November, ahead of the 4th December FutureBook 2015 Conference in London.
At Publishers Launch
BEA, you will get near - term practical and strategic solutions and tips to help manage the
digital transition.
One session Thursday (May 12) stood out, having leveraged the comparative laid - back tone of this off - year, off - road
BEA to promote a serious discussion about Authorship in the
Digital Age, sponsored by Copyright Clearance Center.
She has developed custom presentations for publishers like HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Workman, and has spoken at
BEA,
Digital Book World, AAP and more.
If you can't attend
BEA or the
Digital Book show this year, you can live vicariously through us!
Who Should Attend PLC
BEA is particularly beneficial for US publishing executives who are thinking and / or dealing globally; international visitors to
BEA; rights buyers and sellers; and others in trade publishing focused on strategy and where the
digital transition is headed next in remaking book publishing.
How to Register Register through
BEA to add on a Publishers Launch pass or save money with the All - New
Digital Combo Pass — which includes
BEA All Access, IDPF
Digital Book 2012, and Publishers Launch
BEA.
PaidContent Social reading, discoverability and other unsolved problems at
BEA 2012 Macmillan's Tor / Forge will launch DRM - free
digital bookstore this summer Why India and Brazil are the next hot e-book countries
BEA was very light on
digital, but the people we met up with were totally amazing!
Ectaco showed off their new Lux Android Tablet at
BEA 2012 in the
Digital Zone this year and it has finally been made available.
IDPF DigiCon @
BEA 2016, formerly known as IDPF
Digital Book, is a two - day co-located conference focused on all the key issues we face in advancing publishing in an increasingly digital
Digital Book, is a two - day co-located conference focused on all the key issues we face in advancing publishing in an increasingly
digitaldigital world.
In a lively presentation at Publishers Launch
BEA on Monday, Macmillan evp
digital publishing Fritz Foy announced that Tor / Forge will launch a DRM - free ebookstore this July.
Another new feature is a limited - availability «Super Saver Combo Pass» that enables you to attend both IDPF
Digital Book 2012 and Publishers Launch
BEA for $ 624 ($ 504 for IDPF members / $ 564 non-profits) during the early bird period.
A lot of the discussion from the audience for the panelists at this year's
BEA and IDPF
Digital Book has focused on the dilemma of DRM versus DRM - free ebooks.
BEA 2013 boasted a «
Digital Discovery Zone,» but for every business aimed at revolutionizing delivery to consumers, there were two whose purpose boiled down to making the digital landscape less frightening for hidebound publ
Digital Discovery Zone,» but for every business aimed at revolutionizing delivery to consumers, there were two whose purpose boiled down to making the
digital landscape less frightening for hidebound publ
digital landscape less frightening for hidebound publishers.
· Ebooks and
digital publishing discussions were not as in vogue as at
BEA.
I've met eBook - formatting guru Joshua Tallent before, and it was good to visit with him after his session at the International
Digital Publishing Forum held in conjunction with
BEA.
«Putting Readers First» is the theme of the IDPF
Digital Book 2015 Conference I've programmed for this week at
BEA with 90 speakers and 35 sessions, some fine, fine people with us.
We should hear more about this late this month at the
Digital Book Conference at
BEA, OverDrive president Steve Potash is on the bill.
I'll be moderating a panel on Sunday at
BEA's UPublishU called The X Factor: Agents in the
Digital Publishing Paradigm.
The International
Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) co-located is conference at BookExpo America (
BEA) in Chicago in May, as it has done for years in New York City.
Rosenblatt has blogged about the issue and he will present a panel on June 5 called «The Landscape of Content Protection Technology» for the
Digital Book 2012 program at
BEA (the program is held in partnership with the International
Digital Publishing Forum).
Register here for the special
Digital Combo Pass deal (which also includes a
BEA badge).
We are once again working with the
BEA organizers and the IDPF (which holds their own
digital conference at BEA) to bring back last year's hugely successful Digital Comb
digital conference at
BEA) to bring back last year's hugely successful
Digital Comb
Digital Combo Pass.
News — Voices of BookExpo America: Joshua Tallent of eBook Architects (which is hiring — contact them if you are an eBook developer interested in a position with a growing business based in scenic Austin, Texas) and the eBook Ninjas podcast; Jon Land, author of Strong Vengeance, a Caitlin Strong Novel, on
Digital Rights Management, and Benjamin Schrager, an independent book sales representative from the Bronx who has attended every
BEA meeting and their predecessors except one since 1968.
Though large sections of the showroom floor were dedicated to companies and start - ups showcasing new technologies in
digital publishing, one would of course expect a lot of love for physical books among most
BEA exhibitors and attendees anyway.
Join the IDPF on Tuesday and Wednesday (June 5, 6) from 4 - 5 pm for our
Digital Cocktail Reception in the IDPF
Digital Discovery Zone (D2Z) right on the
BEA show floor.
Thursday and Friday (May 30 - 31) in the IDPF
Digital Discovery Zone (D2Z) right on the
BEA show floor.
How to Register Register through
BEA to add on an IDPF
Digital Book 2012 pass or save money with the All - New Super Saver
Digital Combo Pass — includes
BEA All Access, IDPF
Digital Book, and Publishers Launch Conference.
Sponsored by O'Reilly Media / Tools of Change (Note: in order to attend Ignite
BEA you must be a registered attendee of IDPF
Digital Book 2012)
Join the IDPF and fellow
digital publishing experts on Thursday and Friday (May 30 - 31) in the IDPF Digital Discovery Zone (D2Z) right on the BEA show
digital publishing experts on Thursday and Friday (May 30 - 31) in the IDPF
Digital Discovery Zone (D2Z) right on the BEA show
Digital Discovery Zone (D2Z) right on the
BEA show floor.
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Digital Reader — May 12, 2016 Free Roger app for iOS «Goodreads launches free e-book giveaway promotions for $ 119 fee» $ by Chris Meadows at TeleRead — May 6, 2016 Tech Tip Audible's new Send This Book feature Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Audible)-- email me at PodChronicles AT gmail DOT com if you» $ ™ d like me to send you a free copy of this audiobook, using Audible's new Send This Book Book Feature Interview with Peter Korn Amazon's guide to VoiceView Kindle Paperwhite blind and visually impaired readers bundle My Coverage of VoiceView at TeleRead and The Kindle Chronicles — May 10, 2016 Content Trump» $ ™ s America: The Complete Loser» $ ™ s Guide by Scott Dikkers Next Week's Show Interviews and my observations from Book Expo America in Chicago If you are interested, please check out my
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Yesterday (Wednesday) was spent in sessions at the
Digital Book conference and the
BEA Bloggers conference.
Bob: Last year, the big buzz at
BEA was is everything stable, and I still see it in traditional publishing, they act like, «Oh, we've weathered the
digital storm, everything's fine now,» and I don't think anything can be further from the truth.
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BEA Weblogic & Websphere ♦ TIBCO ♦ Siteminder ♦ Verisign
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