I always go a little overboard when making slides for my presentations. I think it’s a form of procrastination. But I’m not a designer and have only limited Photoshop skills, so I have to rely on some tricks.
For my TOC Ignite presentation on Ibis Reader, I used many now-obligatory photos found by searching Creative-Commons-licensed content [...]
I had a great time speaking in front of the audience at Digital Book World 2010. Actually, that’s not true, it was pretty scary — big audience! But the talk seemed well-received, and the conference was very well-organized, especially given that this was its first year.
You can follow the slides and notes on the Digital [...]
Here’s a roundup of upcoming talks at various publishing conferences:
Digital Book World
January 27, 2010
When digital books account for 10% or more of revenue, indifferent third-party conversions aren’t enough. I’ll be presenting a plenary session on taking ebook quality control to the next level.
O’Reilly Tools of Change
February 22-24, 2010
Networked, Mobile & Landlocked: Current Ereaders
Keith Fahlgren and [...]
There was a sizable crowd and some good questions from the audience at our eformats talk at AAUP. I had to do half the presentation cowboy-style — no slides, no notes — when my USB drive turned out to be Mac-formatted and the slides had to be recovered from email. Thank you Kate!
The [...]
This Saturday I’ll be speaking on a panel at the Association of American University Presses annual meeting about electronic book formats:
Introduction to E-formats
Kindles, iPhones, Sony Readers, Google Books, e-pub, prc, DRM, no-DRM, images with OCR, page-based display vs. reflowed text . . . How do we put books in front of readers on the web? [...]
There were a lot of surprising comments at Bookcamp Toronto, not always in a good way, but the one that’s sticking with me most came in a conversation I had after introducing myself as a software engineer who works in publishing: “Wow, what a terrible job.”
Are you kidding? I think I have the best [...]
I’l be at Book Expo America starting Friday morning through Sunday. I’m not speaking, just playing tourist, and am especially looking forward to the BEA Tweetup.
If you’ll be at BEA and would like to meet up or help me carry my free books, send me an email.
Slides and notes from my 15-minute presentation at the IDPF Digital Book 2009 conference:
Open-source ePub with Bookworm
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You can also download the slides as a PDF. Licensed Creative-Commons-Attribution.
It was a pretty good event overall although I felt that the main program was much stronger than the workshops (my talk was part [...]
I’ll be talking about Bookworm on Monday, May 11 at the IDPF Digital Book conference.
I’m also looking forward to meeting people at Book Expo America later this month (and most especially the BEA Tweetup).
Lastly, I’m very excited about BookCamp Toronto. I’ve been to a number of technical unconferences and they are universally great. [...]