35 tweets | 6 @tweets
35 tweets | 6 @tweets
sarahw: I am about to beat a very big deadline, just in time for #toc. Won't be around tomorrow during the day but will be at parties!
sarahw: @drmabuse same with me - still catching up on work but will be at tonight's parties. #toc
sarahw: @drmabuse at #toc would be awesome but I think he's making a video appearance at the Shorty awards later this week...
sarahw: @KatMeyer @booksquare THANK YOU for throwing such an awesome party last night! #toc
sarahw: Also, random thought before dragging ass to #toc: I want to see T.C. Boyle interact with book club ladies. It would be all kinds of awesome.
sarahw: #toc stein: video footage of text on screen in 1980
sarahw: #toc stein: books are user driven media, movies/tv producer driven media
sarahw: #toc stein: Books are what humans use to move around time and space
sarahw: #toc stein: brings up golden notebook as way of encourage public reading
sarahw: #toc stein: new def: book is place where readers, sometimes authors, congregate. Like WoW
: RT @sarahw: #toc stein: new def: book is place where readers, sometimes authors, congregate. Like WoW
sarahw: #toc mark danielewski would be an awesome speaker at this conference
sarahw: #toc brantley: books are machine objects, limited conception
sarahw: #toc brantley namechecks skin project by shelley jackson
sarahw: #toc orwant why google searches books: platform for discovery
sarahw: #Toc is interesting, but the HC news is distracting me some. Will focus for this afternoon's panels though!
sarahw: #toc ebooks: on rise over last 11 mos but still less than 1 percent of total sales
sarahw: #toc ebooks: every 18 mos e ink speed doubles. New sizes, screens, countries in 2009.
sarahw: #toc wikert: e books must add value, opportunies to enrich experience.
sarahw: #toc wikert: must be actively involved with tools and technology. Many in room have iphones
sarahw: #toc wikert: current apps may look as silly in five yrs as iphone ca. 2001 looks now
sarahw: #toc rothman: publishers would be wise to catch on to epub
sarahw: #toc wilcox: there would be no stanza w/o kindle.
: RT @sarahw: #toc rothman: publishers would be wise to catch on to epub
sarahw: #toc hamilton rather uninformed about indie music and film worlds
sarahw: #toc projections make me want to revisit 1990s projections and see how laughable they were
sarahw: #toc wendell: women are the ebook readers you are looking for.
sarahw: #toc james: market to huge base of power shoppers.
: RT @sarahw: #toc wendell: women are the ebook readers you are looking for.
: #toc @drmabuse, @sarahw, @asheresque @jasonboog in real life.
sarahw: More #toc irony: yesterday's keynote speaker, Jeff Jarvis, published WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO with Collins - now a dead imprint at HC.
sarahw: #toc choksi: friction is bad. Yes, on several levels
sarahw: #toc choksi: experiment, support epub and drm free. Shiny happy eworld!!!
sarahw: #toc bilton: nice overview of history with telephone, phonograph
sarahw: #toc how wany other papers have r&d labs? Proportional to probability of survival?
sarahw: #toc o'reilly namechecks for twitter presence
: sarah weinmann (@sarahw) says on her blog, where are all the women at #TOC?
: #toc @SarahW has very complimentary article about the Smart Women Read eBooks panel - thank you Sarah
sarahw: #toc omg the future of news moderator cannot moderate. And jarvis plugs away
sarahw: #toc is over for me, and all things considered I am very glad I went - and really glad to meet for first time or see so many tweeps again!
sarahw: One thing I harped on a lot at #toc: before we discuss the economics of ebook pricing, let's take a hard look at pricing print formats.