We’ll be adding more photos to the BNC Flickr stream in the weeks to come…check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/36610927@N08/?donelayout=1 to get a taste of the day’s events.
No Country for Old Media: Why Technology Is Important to Small Publishers—BNC Tech Forum '09 Intern Report
Before I joined the BookNet gang as their wily intern, I was (and still am) a coordinating editor at a small literary press. Admittedly, I had seen the electronic book and the online world to some extent, a dystopian literary landscape composed entirely of celebrity scandal pics and text-message shout outs to various boo’s across the cyber-sphere.
I learned a lot. The BNC Technology Forum 2008 was a great conference and really opened my eyes to the possibilities of the future, and specifically how small presses have an incredible advantage right now. Publishers need to embrace the new mediums and prosper. In that vein, I’ve created a list of five things every small publisher should consider when evaluating their place in this brave new world.
The Kindle Mashup of Formatting
Manage Your E-Books with Calibre
I found a new tool this morning that is very intriguing. I have been playing around with it a bit and have found that it isn’t the most intuitive when it comes to usability but you can figure it out easily enough. Calibre is a feature rich e-book manager with a cover flow browsing functionality and network sharing so you can sync your e-book catalogue with the Stanza reader.
What's Next After Tech Forum?
You know that feeling you get the day after your birthday when you wake up feeling slightly groggy to stare at the day-old cake plates and empty libation bottles littered about your people-less abode? At BNC, we’d like to shield you (and ourselves) from that ‘big event is over now what do I have to look forward to’ feeling by pointing out there is more! so much more! coming up in the next few months regarding books, tech, books and tech, and tech and books both.
Downloadable PPT of Michael Tamblyn's #BNC09 Tech Forum Talk
I awoke Saturday morning to a bunch of requests for this, so here it is. The Slideshare version has been updated to allow downloading (but only if you have Keynote). You can also grab a PowerPoint version here.
BNC Technology Forum: Twitter Style
"The Meyer 4%": First Six Weeks of 2008 vs. 2009 Category Market Share
Amazon on the iPhone/Touch: Kindling?
Eco-Bounty
With the advent of the Kindle 2 one begins to wonder if we are really ready to go electronic with reading. The reason I wonder is because I’ve been looking at Chris Jordan’s work lately where he tries to document the size of the e-waste that is in the world now. One picture stands out for me—430,000 cells phones a day retired in the US alone.