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June 17, 2008

Academic publishing conference round-up

I had a great time at the Society for Scholarly Publishing conference last month. I covered a few of the talks on digital publishing on various blogs:

On TeleRead, I discussed some observations about the adoption of e-books by academic (rather than trade) publishers.
My favorite talk was the agile software development panel, which I discuss on [...]

May 27, 2008

threepress at Society for Scholarly Publishing

I’ll be at the annual meeting for SSP, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, this Thursday and Friday in Boston, MA. I’d love to meet with people about ebooks, the epub standard, and digital publishing in general.
There are a number of talks I’m looking forward to, especially in the areas of deep web reference discovery, [...]

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