Jan

Digital Book World Wrap Up with Mike Shatzkin

GoodEReader attended this year’s Digital Book World conference in New York and met up with an amazing crew of attendees from various arms of the publishing world. Agents, editors, and publishing executives were on hand to hear from the many representatives from across the digital publishing spectrum. These experts on ebooks were presenters, panelists, moderators, and exhibitors on everything from children’s app books to digital textbooks, as well as accessories to reading like voice-over narration developers and audio soundtrack creators.

GoodEReader managed to spend a few minutes with the conference chairman, Mike Shatzkin, to get his impressions of the event as a whole, as well as some of his predictions for where digital publishing will be going in the coming year. The video of that interview can be found below.

Mercy Pilkington (531 Posts)

Mercy Pilkington is a young-adult author and a teacher in a correctional facility. She does not have a single textbook in her classroom. With the top-of-the-line technology at her disposal and the low reading ability of many of her students, there’s no need for standard paper texts. Instead she relies on e-readers, iPads, desktop PCs, Polycom video conferencing equipment for virtual field trips, live streaming for science demonstrations, and text-to-speech read-aloud software to teach English and science. Within the next ten years, public school classrooms across the country are going to look a lot more like Mercy’s classroom because the educational possibilities with these kinds of technologies are limitless. Have a question? Send an email to mercypilkington@yahoo.com