Andrew Savikas
Andrew Savikas is the CEO of Safari Books Online. Previously he was VP of Digital Initiatives at O'Reilly Media and the program chair for O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference.
Andrew holds a B.S. in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston. He is a frequent speaker at publishing and content management conferences, and is also the author of "Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming your Text".
Michael Tamblyn's TOC Frankfurt presentation (actually a dramatic recreation thereof)
via blip.tv Shortcovers' Michael Tamblyn was kind enough to record his talk and slides from last month's TOC Frankfurt Conference. I got a lot of great hallway feedback about the session, and you'll see it's for good reason. Michael will also be speaking at TOC New York. Posted via web from TOC Posterous…
Michael Tamblyn's TOC Frankfurt presentation (actually a dramatic recreation thereof)
via blip.tv Shortcovers' Michael Tamblyn was kind enough to record his talk and slides from last month's TOC Frankfurt Conference. I got a lot of great hallway feedback about the session, and you'll see it's for good reason. Michael will also be speaking at TOC New York. Posted via web from TOC Posterous…
William Patry delivering Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Duke
Google Senior Copyright Counsel Bill Patry, who will be one of our keynote speakers at TOC 2010, delivered a great lecture at Duke last month dissecting the “moral panic” approach to copyright debate, as exemplified by the late Jack Valenti, former CEO of the MPAA. His talk is just under 30 minutes, and then he goes into Q&A with…
Agree with this summary of why Posterous makes posting dead simple
via broadcast.oreilly.com Mark Sigal's spot on in his assessment of micro-blogging service Posterous. It bridges the gap between Tweeting and Blogging and makes posting effortless. Posted via web from TOC Posterous…
Qwitter: Accessible Twitter client (uses TTS) (via @doctorow)
Just make sure not to follow anyone who's a member of the Author's Guild … "The Qwitter client enables blind individuals to interface with the Twitter service globally, regardless of application focus. Based off of revolutionary concepts pioneered in The Jawter Jaws Scripts, Qwitter, with full support for the three major comercial screen readers and sapi speech, provides you instant…
"Web-based ePub validator adds Preflight and API" (via @liza)
From @liza at Threepress:"EpubCheck's lesser-known companion checks for additional issues like content documents that exceed 300K, which can't be loaded on the Sony Reader."http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/04/epub-validator-updates/(ps — thanks to @liza for making my day with the pointer to http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock) Posted via email from TOC Posterous…
Despite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman)
O'Reilly's Ben Lorica slices and dices current app trends for iPhone and Android (nice data points on price stabilization too): "While it might be true that the number of Book apps is growing at a faster rate, Games continue to dominate the list of popular U.S. iTunes Apps. Games accounted for about a fifth of all iTunes apps over the…
Despite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman)
O'Reilly's Ben Lorica slices and dices current app trends for iPhone and Android (nice data points on price stabilization too): "While it might be true that the number of Book apps is growing at a faster rate, Games continue to dominate the list of popular U.S. iTunes Apps. Games accounted for about a fifth of all iTunes apps over the…
Early Registration Now Open for TOC 2010 New York
Early registration is now open for the 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing Conference returning to the Marriott Marquis Feb. 22-24 2010.The program for TOC 2010 reflects how quickly the landscape is changing for publishers — digital can no longer be thought of as a separate topic; digital creation, delivery, distribution, consumption, and communication are permeating every layer of the…
Gizmodo smells a rat (well, they smell *something*) when it comes to iPhone ebook sales
John Herrman has nice counterpoint on the rise of ebook apps, underscoring that quantity is not the same as quality: Treasure Island, a free, public domain book, is available for purchase as a standalone app from over a dozen different developers, in all kinds of containers, at all kinds of prices. And why not! the content is free, so once…