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8:30 - 9:00 am |
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
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9:00 - 9:15 am |
Opening Remarks
Noah Genner, BookNet Canada
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9:15 - 9:45 am |
Can This Business Be Saved?
Experimenting With New Models for Trade Publishing
Bob Miller, Workman Publishing
Adult trade publishing is under enormous pressures from every direction: pricing stress from the digital market, 40% average hardcover returns, enormous write-offs from unearned advances, skyrocketing marketing costs. To save our industry, can we find new ways to publish that are more equitable and sustainable than the current models?. |
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9:50 - 10:20 am |
Publishing 3.0
Moving from Gatekeeping to Partnerships
Richard Nash, Cursor Books
With the number of books published each year climbing, traditional distribution channels shrinking and the specter of free digital content looming, the future of the blockbuster is uncertain. Surviving and thriving might well depend less on reaching a wide audience and more on doing really, really well serving your niche. Does the book business need to go vertical to survive?
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10:20 - 10:40 am |
BREAK
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10:40 - 11:20 am |
Breaking Ground:
Transforming Innovative Ideas to Action
Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks
Founded in 1987, Dominique Raccah’s publishing company Sourcebooks is a leader in innovation action. From PoetrySpeaks.com, an iTunes-modelled poetry discovery and social networking site, to a collaboration with SmashWords to create DRM-free ebooks, Sourcebooks continues to find new ways to create, market and sell books. Raccah will discuss her experiences with these risk-taking projects and speak about translating ideas into action in an ever-evolving publishing industry.
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11:20 - 12:00 pm |
Lessons Learned from Shortcovers & Kobo:
A Year in the Life of the What and How of Selling eBooks
Michael Tamblyn, Kobo
Early 2010 will mark the one-year anniversary of Shortcovers, Indigo's eBookselling venture recently reborn as Kobo. VP Content Sales and Merchandising Michael Tamblyn examines lessons learned in the first year including getting to know the mobile reader, what and how people want to read, dealing with third-party applications, .epub and more. |
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12:00 - 1:00 pm |
LUNCH
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1:00 - 1:40 pm |
Open Source ePub: Digital Books
Liza Daly, Threepress Consulting
One of the many challenges in digital publishing is a loss of control over the layout and design of ebooks. The proliferation of ereading systems -- on computers, smartphones and hybrids like tablets or netbooks -- means that readers are experiencing books in ways that publishers can't predict. This presentation will focus on the formatting options available in ePub, how open standards like CSS are implemented in the real world, and identify those features of eBooks which can be controlled, and those that are just part of the new publishing reality. We'll also look ahead to what's coming in eBook technology and how to prepare for it. |
One Book From Many: Re-imagining Book Creation
Ian Barker, Symtext
Mark Scott, BookRiff
Whether in the form of mixtapes, DVD commentary tracks or video mash-ups, today's consumers are used to have their entertainment cross genre boundaries. Books have remained relatively untouched by this phenomenon - until now. Mark Scott of BookRiff and Ian Barker of Symtext present two very different models of content fluidity, driven by customer needs and demands.
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1:50 - 2:30 pm |
Using RFID to Increase Accuracy, Efficiency and Inventory Visibility
Marshall Kay, RFID Sherpas
What is RFID, how does it work and what use is it to the Canadian book industry? There are a range of RFID deployments already underway globally in bookstores, distribution centres and production environments and groups like the BISG, EPCglobal and the
International ISBN Agency are working to smooth the path to mass adoption of RFID. This session will open the door for attendees to think about how to leverage RFID to support business growth.
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Trailblazing: Leading The Way to A New Kind of Supply Chain
Hugh McGuire, Book Oven
Mark Lefebvre, Titles Bookstore, McMaster University
What does the next generation of book creation and supply look like? More collaboration? Less waste? Just-in-time delivery? Hugh McGuire of Book Oven and Mark Lefebvre of Titles Bookstore (home of the Espresso Book Machine) present how in their experience new behaviours and technologies are changing the way we create and sell books.
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2:40 – 3:20 pm |
Understanding BookServer: The Power to Find, Buy or Borrow Any Digital Book in Any Format at Any Time
Peter Brantley, Internet Archive
Taking books online requires more than just isolated effort from individuals. Open standards that allow catalogues to be published, books to be found and a wide range of eBook readers to exist requires concerted effort by the whole community. To that end, the Internet Archive has created the BookServer and Peter Brantley will explain the vision, architecture, and opportunities to increase the reach of digital content in today's burgeoning mobile and ebook landscape
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Bookselling on the Web: Two Independent Innovators Explore Online Book Publishing, Retailing and Promotion
Mark Coker, Smashwords
Len Vlahos, IndieBound
When bookselling moves online, it creates exciting possibilities for publishers to expand readership. This session, presented from the perspectives of an indie ebook publisher/distributor and a consortium of indie book retailers, explores new opportunities to publish, distribute, market and sell books to wired consumers around the world.
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3:20 – 3:40 pm |
BREAK
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3:40 – 4:10 pm |
Has Content Outgrown Its Covers?
Deanna McFadden, HarperCollins Canada
How willing are publishers to take the risk to re-imagine how their business isn’t just books but content in general? What kind of shift in thinking does it take to survive in the new (and sometimes scary) digital world? Some of the biggest questions that we all face include what is a book, does format matter, and where do rights fit into the new book world. Do the rewards outweigh the risk as we, as an industry, try to reach more than just the avid readers? |
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4:15 – 4:45 pm |
Lightning Round Demos
Mark Coker, Smashwords
Len Vlahos, IndieBound
Hugh McGuire, Book Oven
Ian Barker, Symtext
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4:45 - 5:00 pm |
Closing Remarks
Noah Genner, BookNet Canada
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5:00 - 6:00 pm |
WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION
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