46 tweets | 12 @tweets
46 tweets | 12 @tweets
: I've decided to take a sick day from to conserve my strength for #toc Mon-Wed, so @jasonboog will fly the GalleyCat flag alone today.
jasonboog: #toc @markcoker I agree wholeheartedly about visiting the nypl yaddo exhibit on a break. Inspiring stuff.
jasonboog: #toc Nobody is going to wear superhero costumes at TOC, are they?
: #toc afternoon sessions about to begin. I'm in one room, @jasonboog in another. Two-fisted tech coverage!
: Tools of Change book conf coverage by @RonHogan & @jasonboog for which also has news on Kindle 2 #toc
jasonboog: Joshua Tallent, Kindle formater: Kindle has “no native support for tables.” He suggests you use images or text to convert charts. #toc
jasonboog: Joshua Tallent: Always create table of contents for Kindle books--even in fiction. Makes browsing much easier for digital readers. #toc
jasonboog: Kindle formatter Joshua Tallent has a twitter page: @jtallent and a website: #toc
jasonboog: #toc Fahlgren: or link all the names of all the wizards. Or link to a family tree of your characters. Fun ebook browsing brainstorm game.
jasonboog: #toc Keith Fahlgren, O’Reilly: Think Creative ebook links-- link to a map of a fantasy world when described in fantasy book....
jasonboog: Compared to comic con the #toc is a breeze to get online. Viva conversation!
: by @jasonboog: Compared to comic con the #toc is a breeze to get online. Viva conversation!
jasonboog: #toc Stein: Book is a place: "Authors become leaders of communities of inquiry (nonfic) or creators of worlds that readers populate (fic)".
jasonboog: #toc Interesting footnote to @doctorow keynote:
: the full HC story will be on GalleyCat soon: @jasonboog has a laptop here at #toc.
jasonboog: #toc hope from @laureltouby: "When I started it was in a [post-Internet bubble] downturn like this one."
jasonboog: #toc Brent Lewis (Harlequin): 35 billion yen ebook market in Japan. Will we grow same way?
jasonboog: #toc Lewis: that's four times the size of the US market. 85 percent of ebooks are sold directly to mobile phone
jasonboog: #toc Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation): Publishers can use QR Codes:
: #toc Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation): Publishers can use QR Codes: (via @jasonboog)
jasonboog: #toc Peter Brantley--scan or take a picture of a QR code with your phone in real world, access a URL on the web.
jasonboog: #toc @jeffjarvis What if you could buy a writer "across all media"? Subscribe to an author instead of buying a stand alone book.
: TRUNCATED RT: @jasonboog Subscribe to an author instead of buying a stand alone book. #TOC Yesssss!
: @mikecane likes something! RT @mikecane: TRUNCATED RT: @jasonboog Subscribe to an author instead of buying a stand alone book. #TOC Yesssss!
jasonboog: Sara Lloyd #toc just mentioned Nintendo DS books. Nobody has mentioned those at all the panels I've seen.
: RT @jasonboog: Sara Lloyd #toc just mentioned Nintendo DS books. Nobody has mentioned those at all the panels I've seen.
jasonboog: Sara Lloyd #toc 8 percent of all app store apps at the beginning were reader applications.
jasonboog: RT @timoreilly on e-reading breakdown in #toc audience ">10% for Kindle, about 70% for iPhone"
jasonboog: #toc
@drmabuse, @sarahw, @asheresque @jasonboog in real life.
jasonboog: #toc Oprah's show about Kindle sent Stanza e-reader iphone downloads "through the roof"
jasonboog: #toc Stanza will now support Adobe's DRM.
jasonboog: jasonboog #toc Stanza has 1.3 million users, 5 million books downloaded. More than 100,000 books available now.
jasonboog: #toc Stanza has 1.3 million users, 5 million books downloaded. More than 100,000 books available now.
jasonboog: #toc don't underestimate the power of a high ranking in the app store.
jasonboog: #toc @nickbilton speechwriting and slidemaking 101: Always include pictures of cute kids
jasonboog: #toc @timoreilly: 2nd most followed Twitter-er is author .
jasonboog: Kindle audio? @doctorow versus AG at #toc:
jasonboog: now video up @doctorow versus AG at #toc
jasonboog: First lunchtime talking point RT @doctorow: O'Reilly piracy study: Piracy is zero sum, win some lose some, stop worrying about it. #toc
jasonboog: RT @totai: Random House rep says it's a tough sell to expect a consumer to come to a single publisher's website - #toc
: RT @jasonboog: new video up @doctorow versus AG at #toc
jasonboog: @Drmabuse nice round up of the #toc e-book panel with signature skepticism:
jasonboog: RT @robertheym Using Twitter search to follow #toc. Nifty. Twiiter search saves only 100 pages? That's only 5 hours ago.
jasonboog: #toc "How does it translate to a business model?" every panel gets that same question. Are we in a recession or something?
: @jasonboog #toc At least the answers about business models are getting a teeny bit better over time.
jasonboog: #toc @doctorow asks @jeffjarvis question, @jeffjarvis reverses question: how can media outlet be designed to be link-friendly?
jasonboog: #toc @jeffjarvis coins word of the day. "Broccoli journalism"
jasonboog: RT @timoreilly Google trend on "pdf download ebooks" via : Look at the countries. That's oppty #toc
jasonboog: #toc Jesse McDougall of Chelsea Green is showing how to run a website and use Twitter...
jasonboog: #toc It worked:
jasonboog: #toc designed a pretty handy comment policy that other writers could follow. On website, under "site disclaimer"
jasonboog: #toc @pnh recruited Jo Walton after reading her comments on science fiction message boards.
jasonboog: #toc So strange to emerge from twitter stream and try to write something about it. Like stumbling off a gangplank
: @jasonboog Great post! I will send it to some writers. #TOC Go !!
jasonboog: #toc Chris Baty NaNoWriMo. He's pushing amateur angle, but that contest taught me more about deadlines and productivity than an MFA.
jasonboog: #toc Blogs built up NaNoWriMo. What will Twitter do to it? Dum Dum duuuuuuum...
jasonboog: Yay 4-20 jokes at #toc
jasonboog: Goodnight Twitter: RT @doctorow: Every writing class I teach is full of great writers who figured out work discipline through NaNoWriMo #toc