29 tweets | 2 @tweets
29 tweets | 2 @tweets
shanakimball: RT @booksquare prepping for #toc workshop and looking for women who *read* ebooks for quick survey:
shanakimball: Just saw Naomi Watts get paparazzi'd on bond st. In NYC for #toc. Let the games begin.
shanakimball: #Toc, I'm having to make some tough choices tomorrow; these panels are an embarrassment of riches:
shanakimball: Peter brantley of DLF, next up at #toc. Literature as a (web) service.
: by @shanakimball: Peter brantley of DLF, next up at #toc. Literature as a (web) service.
shanakimball: Brantley imagines not just digital but fully networked books . The role of publishers is to build services around this. #toc
shanakimball: Cory Doctorow: p-books can be ripped off as easily as e-books. #toc
shanakimball: CD: hey publishers, don't be like the music industry. No DRM for ebooks. #toc
shanakimball: CD: drm is all cost, no benefit, for publishers. #toc
shanakimball: About to hear the folks from RIT open publishing lab re open source pub tools. #toc
shanakimball: OPG includes free templates and tutorials. #toc
shanakimball: These folks kick so much publishing ass. These are the tools we need now. . #toc
shanakimball: Ben Vershbow: the offline-ness of a print book is of great value in our always "on" world. #toc
shanakimball: Smashwords' @markcoker on the podium, asking good q's of panelists re future of e-books. #toc
shanakimball: By audience show of hands, apple is winning the platform war (over Kindle) at #toc. Iphones are ubiquitous here.
shanakimball: Peter brantley on mobile as platforms for data integration that make new forms of storytelling and experience possible. #toc
shanakimball: Great question. I sure hope so. But apple doesn't seem to have much of a presence here. #toc
shanakimball: More from #toc today! At new reading habits, new distro models panel with peter brantley, daily lit, shared books, etc.
shanakimball: Brantley: go beyond just reformatting or repackaging content. How can publishers meet readers where they are and invent new form? #toc
shanakimball: Apparently daily lit just released a Madoff book in serial form. #toc
shanakimball: A published work is becoming a moment in time rather than a "finished" product. #toc
shanakimball: ...Can publishers support these long form online reading experiences? A new form of lit? #toc
shanakimball: But how do publishers manage the process? The work never ends! #toc
shanakimball: Wondering, for academic publishing, what are the tools for continuity? We need to maintain scholarly record, in the midst of change. #toc
shanakimball: @philzuck great presentation -- mazel tov! sorry I had to leave early. on my way to panel. #toc
shanakimball: on the podium talking about our reprints biz at um library. #toc
shanakimball: "2008: maria's small staff crushed under the weight of our reprints program." #toc
: @shanakimball Sounds like someone needs some Espresso machines. #toc
shanakimball: HP is helping us convert scanned page image files to print quality ones. #toc
shanakimball: RT @cmaisannes Dude gives @doctorow his card, & he says "I'm out of cards, but I'm the first Cory in Google." #TOC (just heard this too!)
shanakimball: Wrapped up meeting at nyu with re building community with . Still much to digest from #toc.