Wow - the IDPF has really put together a terrific line up for 2013
IDPF Digital Book 2013 Reveals an All-Star Lineup
Otis Chandler, Malcolm Gladwell, and More Join
Top-Notch Speaker Roster
New York, NY, May 8, 2013 – From
May 29-30, 2013, the best minds in digital publishing will convene in the
Javits Center in New York City for the highly-anticipated, perennially sold-out
at IDPF Digital Book 2013 conference (http://idpf.org/db13). This year’s theme, Advancing
Publishing in a Digital World, has already drawn an enormous crowd, with
seats expected to sell out soon.
Some featured speakers and
session insights include:
·
Otis Chandler, Co-founder and CEO of
Goodreads will share an update and tackle questions from the crowd, including: what’s
next for Goodreads now that it’s owned by Amazon? What does the recent sale
mean for the 17 million members, 530 million books and 23 million reviews?
·
Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and
staff writer for The New Yorker will
speculate on the digital future with Brad
Stone, Bloomberg Businessweek
writer and author of the upcoming The
Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
·
Paul Aiken, Executive Director of
the Authors Guild, will speak out for his constituents in the sale versus
licensing digital content controversy, sharing the stage with the other side, John Ossenmacher of ReDigi, moderated
by former Tools of Change icon, Joe
Wikert
·
Allen Lau of Wattpad, Kristen McLean of Bookigee and Anne Kubek of INscribe Digital will
enrich the audience with tips on how to engage deeper with readers
·
Sylvia Day and Jennifer Armentrout will reveal their secrets on how to be a
successful and bestselling hybrid author
·
Paul Belfanti (Pearson), Kent Freeman (VitalSource), Evan St. Lifer (Scholastic), Daniel Fountenberry (Borne Digital), Rebecca Tomasini (The Alvo Institute), Ken Brooks (Cengage), Diana Rhoten (Amplify) and more digital
education pioneers will show us what 21st century learning platforms
and classrooms should really look like and why
·
Steve Potash (OverDrive), Jeff Jaffe (World Wide Web Consortium)
and John Wheeler (SPi Global) will
cover the open web platform, EPUB 3 and HTML 5, while Markus Gylling (DAISY) and Bill
Kasdorf (Apex CoVantage) will share the latest EPUB 3 developments and
features and Liz Castro (Author) will
put them into action
·
Chris Kitchener of Adobe and Steve Matteson of Monotype will explore
how to enhance a reader’s experience through typography and fonts
·
Eve Hill (Department of Justice), George Kerscher (DAISY and 2013
Presidential Appointee) and Robin Seaman
(Benetech) will cover accessibility in the digital world
The stacked lineup
continues with speakers from Random House, HarperCollins, Google, Barnes and
Noble, and more. (http://idpf.org/digital-book-2013/speakers)
Enriching the two-day
conference are three different tracks with focuses on business and marketing,
technology and production, and education/STM publishing, as well as diverse
plenary sessions. Debuting for the first time this year is a Solutions Showcase, complete with
not-to-be-missed lightning demonstrations of promising digital start-ups.
No other publishing
conference provides such practical strategies, technical expertise and
actionable insights that you can use immediately and successfully. Registration
remains open but the IDPF Digital Book Conference sells out every year.
Register today at: http://idpf.org/db13. Paid admission
to IDPF Digital Book 2013 includes free admission to the BookExpo America trade show and exhibit hall, including the Digital Discovery Zone by
IDPF.
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