Schedule

Books in Browsers 2010 / October 21-22

Internet Archive / San Francisco, CA

(#bib10)

Sponsored by:

Internet Archive

O'Reilly Media

with support from:

Magellan Media

Copia Interactive

 
Day 1

8:30-9:00: Coffee / Light Breakfast

9:00-9:15: Opening Remarks – Peter Brantley, Internet Archive

9:15- 9:45: Allen Noren, O’Reilly Media – Books in Browsers

9:45- 10:00: BREAK

10:00- 10:20: Bill McCoy, Webpaper – Browsers for Books: Formats and User Experiences for Digital Reading
10:20- 10:40: Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks – Immersion: What we actually know about adding media to books.
10:40- 11:00 Waldo Jaquith, VQR – EPUB for website producers

11:00- 11:15: BREAK

11:15 - 11:35: Keith Fahlgren, Ibis Reader - Piercing the Clouds: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Web-based Reading
11:35: - 11:55: Nicole Ozer, ACLU – Digital Books: A New Chapter for Reader Privacy
11:55 - 12:15: Jason Schultz, UC Berkeley – Using open licenses to ensure reader privacy
12:15 - 12:30: Panel discussion - Reader privacy

12:30- 1:30: LUNCH

1:30 - 1:50: SJ Klein, OLPC – Rural uses of browser books
1:50: - 2:10: Jim Fruchterman, Benetech – Accessibility for browser based books
2:10 - 2:30: Joseph Pearson, Inventive Labs – How we're using Monocle in the Labs

2:30 - 3:00: BREAK

3:00 - 3:20: Minh Truong, Aldiko – Books and Apps
3:20 - 3:40: Daihei Shiohama, Voyager Japan – From mobile comics to broad platform experiences
3:40 - 4:00: Michael Ang, Internet Archive – Designing books for touch

4:00 - 4:15: BREAK

Keynote:
4:15- 4:45: Brian O’Leary, Magellan Partners – A Unified Field Theory of Publishing

4:45- 5:00: Evening Logistics - Peter Brantley, Internet Archive

Evening Event:
6:30- 9:00: Books in Browsers - Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive

Day 2

8:30-9:00: Coffee / Light Breakfast

 8:50- 9:00: General Housekeeping

Keynotes:
9:00- 9:30: Bob Stein, If:Book – For publishers, working together to support an open-source platform for Social Reading is the key to taking the initiative back from Amazon, Apple and Google

9:30-10:00: Richard Nash, Cursor Books – Remember, the reader writes, too... On how discoverability begins with the writer.  

10:00- 10:15: BREAK

10:15 - 10:35: Kovid Goyal, Calibre – An Alexandria in every neighborhood
10:35 - 10:55: Aaron Miller, Bookglutton – A network of Books
10:55- 11:15: Otis Chandler, GoodReads – Finding Shelf Space in a World Without Shelves

11:15- 11:30: BREAK

11:30- 12:00: Hadrien Gardeur, Feedbooks – A Connected Bookshelf
12:00- 12:30: Michael Tamblyn, Kobo Books - Life Among the Freegans: The Co-Existence of Free Books, Paid Books, and the People Who Read Them

12:30- 1:30: LUNCH

1:30- 1:50: Erin McKean, Wordnik – Things are looking up for looking things up?
1:50- 2:10: Eli James, Novelr – Pandamian: A Publishing Support Layer
2:10 - 2:40: Kevin Franco, Francomedia – Thriller-based Transmedia and the reader experience
 
2:40 - 2:55: BREAK

2:55- 3:15: Fran Toolan, Firebrand – A Conversation: Rights in the Book Web
 
Keynote -
3:15- 3:45: Matthew Bernius, RIT – Returning to the Canon for Inspiration: Vannevar Bush, Walter Benjamin, and the future of reading

3:45- 4:00: BREAK

4:00- 4:35: Pecha Kucha 7

  Blaine Cook, Romeda
 Craig Mod, "Post Artifact Story Telling"
Jacob Lewis, Figment
Cart Reed, Ebooq