Seth Kaufman, Copia Interactive. Copia makes its platform available to people who want to compete with Amazon and Google. They are in 900 campus bookstores and launched a bookstore for Parents magazine. One of the unique things about the platform is that it has enabled marginal annotations that you can share with others. The idea that margins exist and can be shared is a … [Read more...] about Tools of Change – Copia Talks about Improving Your Margins
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Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks
Babur Habib, co-founder of educational software and digital textbook designer Kno, was on hand at Tools of Change to speak with GoodEReader about its recent launch of the Kno Advance platform, the anticipated follow up to the earlier release of the Kno Me interactive learning dashboard. With this week's announcement about Kno Advance and its three distinct components, … [Read more...] about Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks
QBend on Providing Publisher Solutions
One of the concerns discussed at this morning's keynote addresses at the Tools of Change conference in New York was the concept of the "walled garden" of online book retailers. This closed system of ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the … [Read more...] about QBend on Providing Publisher Solutions
Tools of Change – Keynotes
Tim O'Reilly, of course, runs the show and this is the seventh edition of the conference. He started Tools of Change because O'Reilly needed to look to the future. eBooks are multiplying, but even more interesting is the fact that print has not gone away and it looks like the industry is coming to some kind of equilibrium. Importantly, the fear that a new thing is a bad thing … [Read more...] about Tools of Change – Keynotes
Open Standards in the Walled Garden – Epub3 Support Is Broken
Amenda Gomm and Tom McClusky of Digital Bindery presented the results of their testing of Epub 3 elements on various reading platforms. Some elements worked and some didn't. For metadata, Epub 3 offers a lot: container, publication, structure, and content. Focusing on the publication metadata, there are many optional elements, but when they put these elements into a document … [Read more...] about Open Standards in the Walled Garden – Epub3 Support Is Broken
Tools of Change Conference 2013 Underway with Future Thinking
As this year's eagerly awaited TOC got underway in New York, a number of industry leaders took to the stage to launch the conference with the morning's first keynotes. Making an appearance for the first time in several years was Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media, who brought attendees up to speed on how the print market and ebook market are faring, essentially putting to rest any … [Read more...] about Tools of Change Conference 2013 Underway with Future Thinking
Tools of Change Is Almost Here
The publishing industry is in the midst of profound change that goes much deeper than simply using new tools and technology to publish in new formats. That's why over 1,000 of the best minds in publishing gather every year in New York for the O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) Conference. No other publishing conference provides such an intelligent blend of practical experience and … [Read more...] about Tools of Change Is Almost Here
Tools of Change Call for Papers for W3C
O'Reilly Media's highly anticipated annual Tools of Change publishing conference brings some of the industries top innovators together for what is arguably one of the most dynamic multi-day publishing events in the era of ebooks. For this coming year's event, TOC will be hosting the W3C eBook Workshop, “eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards – A W3C Workshop on … [Read more...] about Tools of Change Call for Papers for W3C
BookShout! Unveils Cross-Platform Compatibility at Frankfurt Book Fair
Social reading platform BookShout! unveiled its newest features at the Frankfurt Book Fair today, and it’s sure to raise some eyebrows in the publishing industry. The new app, originally available for iOS and now Android and web-based as well, allows readers to read their previously purchased digital titles in one location, regardless of which digital platform was used for the … [Read more...] about BookShout! Unveils Cross-Platform Compatibility at Frankfurt Book Fair
Tools of Change Conference Kicks Off Bologna Book Fair
Bologna is one of the premier annual publishing events, and the beauty of Bologna (besides being in Italy, of course) is the centralization around children’s literature. This year’s book fair is the second year in a row to see such an emphasis on digital children’s books and enhanced app books, with several ToC speakers and panels dedicated to where the ebook market is going to … [Read more...] about Tools of Change Conference Kicks Off Bologna Book Fair