Books In Browsers

Detailed Schedule

October 24-26, 2012

View attendees!
@ the Internet Archive
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA

… with major sponsorship from:
Safari Books Online and Kobo Books

… and further assistance from:
Pearson plc, Don Linn & Assoc., Firebrand Technologies, VitalSource Technologies, Voyager Japan, Goodreads, Enthrill Books, Frankfurter Buchmesse, and Green Apple Books!.

Wednesday evening

O’Reilly Media invites. @ The Kabuki Hotel.

Thursday

08:30-09:00. Initio
Kat Meyer (O’Reilly Media), Peter Brantley (Internet Archive). Introduction and Welcome.

09:00-10:00. Morning session 1.
Craig Mod – Why aren’t you publishing on Facebook?
Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media Partners) – The library within us.

10:00-10:15. Break

10:15-11:15. Morning session 2.
Adam Witwer (O’Reilly Media) – We’ve got the tools. Let’s start using them.
John Maxwell (Simon Fraser Univ.) – The Webby Future of Structured Markup: Not Your Father’s XML.
Laura Dawson (Bowker) – When a book is not a book.

11:15-11:30. Break

11:30-12:30. Morning session 3.
Miral Sattar (BiblioCrunch) – You’ve picked an authoring plaform. Now what?
Ricky Wong, Feng Hu (MobNotate) – Enabling Discovery through linking
Hugh McGuire (Pressbooks) – Authoring for Discoverability.

12:30-13:30. Lunch

13:30-14:30. Afternoon session 1.
Michael Tamblyn (Kobo Books) – /data lessons/
Chris Conley (ACLU) – Digital Books and dotRights.

14:30-14:45. Break

14:45-15:45. Afternoon session 2
Anna Lewis (ValoBox) – Books in browsers … what next?
Henrik Berggren (Readmill) – Learnings from a year of building a service for readers.
Peter Collingridge (Enhanced Editions) – Failure is an option.

15:45-16:00. Break

16:00-17:00. Afternoon session 3.
Stefanie Syman (The Atavist) – The Reader Experience.
Pablo Defendini (Safari Books Online) – Reading on the big screen.

17:00-17:30. end-of-day

Ben Moskowitz (Mozilla) – Making Popcorn.

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Evening:

17:30-18:30. Reception
18:30-19:30. Internet Archive presents

[Dinner on your own].

Friday

08:30-09:00. Re-engage
Mary Lou Jepson (Pixel Qi). Overworked Eyes: How can screens be easier on the eyes?

09:00-10:00. Morning session 1.
Liza Daly and Keith Fahlgren (Safari Books Online) – The self-publishing book.
Maureen Evans and Blaine Cook (Poeti.ca) – Dear Editor: conversation in an electronic age.

10:00-10:15. Break

10:15-11:15. Morning session 2.
Bill McCoy (IDPF) – Teaching the browser EPUB 3 (and learning on the way).
Daniel Buchner (Mozilla) – Custom Elements and <book /> – Returning the Web to Authorship.
Liz Castro (Pgs, Gourds, & Wikis) – Zen* and the art of the modular book.

11:15-11:30. Break

11:30-12:30. Morning session 3.
Nancy Ruenzel (Peachpit Press) – Lessons from the ebook foundry.
Ron Hogan (Beatrice) – Beatrice: My foray into self-publishing.
Kate Pullinger (author) – Having My Cake.

12:30-13:30. Lunch

13:30-14:30. Afternoon session 1.
Matt MacInnis (Inkling) – The Death of the Ten Dollar Text File
Masaaki Hagino (Voyager Japan) – Simpler, Smaller, Stronger.
Ron Martinez (Aerbook) – Books in Clouds.

14:30-14:45. Break

14:45-15:45. Afternoon session 2.
Matthew Cavnar (Vook) – Across devices.
Adam Hyde (FLOSS Manuals) – Social Book Production.
Tobias Green (Playlab London) – The Written World.

15:45-16:00. Break

16:00-16:45. Afternoon session 3.
Kassia Krozser (Booksquare) – What Do Readers Want? Books! How Do They Want Them? Every Way Possible!.
Kevin Franco (Enthrill) – Endpaper Engine.

16:45-17:00. Finale
Tschüss! Until next time!

Thank you!

… running …

Adam Hyde (FLOSS Manuals) – Social Book Production

Adam Witwer (O’Reilly Media) – We’ve got the tools. Let’s start using them.

Anna Lewis (ValoBox) – Books in browsers … what next?

Bill McCoy (IDPF) – Teaching the browser EPUB 3 (and learning on the way)

Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media Partners) – The library within us

Chris Conley (ACLU) – Digital Books and dotRights

Craig Mod – Why aren’t you publishing on Facebook?

Henrik Berggren (Readmill) – Learnings from a year of building a service for readers

Hugh McGuire (Pressbooks) – Authoring for Discoverability

John Maxwell (Simon Fraser Univ.) – The Webby Future of Structured Markup: Not Your Father’s XML.

Kassia Krozser (Booksquare) – What Do Readers Want? Books! How Do They Want Them? Every Way Possible!

Kate Pullinger (author) – Having My Cake

Kevin Franco (Enthrill) – Endpaper Engine

Laura Dawson (Bowker) – When a book is not a book.

Liz Castro (Pgs, Gourds, & Wikis) – Zen* and the art of the modular book

Liza Daly (Safari Books Online) – The self-publishing book

Masaaki Hagino (Voyager Japan) – Enhancement of the Book

Matt MacInnis (Inkling) – /multimedia ebooks/

Matthew Cavnar (Vook) – Reading across devices

Maureen Evans and Blaine Cook (Poeti.ca) – Dear Editor: conversation in an electronic age

Michael Tamblyn (Kobo Books) – /data lessons/

Miral Sattar (BiblioCrunch) – You’ve picked your authoring plaform. Now what?

Nancy Ruenzel (Peachpit Press) – Lessons from the ebook foundry

Pablo Defendini (Safari Books Online) – Reading on the big screen.

Peter Collingridge (Enhanced Editions) – Failure is an option

Ron Hogan (Beatrice) – Beatrice: My foray into self-publishing

Ron Martinez (Aerbook) – Books in Clouds

Stephanie Syman (Atavist) – The Reader Experience

Tobias Green (Playlab London) – The Written World

We already have some exciting preliminary speakers lined up for BiB in October!
Much can change between here and then, but so far we have:

• Henrik Berggren, Readmill
• Baldur Bjarnason
• Liz Castro, Cookwood Press
• Matt Cavnar, Vook
• Peter Collingridge, Enhanced Editions
• Chris Conley, ACLU Northern California
• Blaine Cook and Maureen Evans, Poeti.ca
• Liza Daly et al., Safari Books Online
• Pablo Defendini, Safari Books Online
• Kevin Franco, Enthrill
• Tobias Green, Playlab London
• Masaaki Hagino, Voyager Japan
• Adam Hyde, Floss Manuals
• Mary Lou Jepson, Pixel Qi
• Kassia Krozser, Booksquare
• Anna Lewis, ValoBox
• Ron Martinez, Aerbook
• John Maxwell, Simon Fraser Univ.
• Hugh McGuire, Pressbooks
• Bill McCoy, IDPF
• Matt McInnis, Inkling
• Craig Mod
• Brian O’Leary, Magellan Media Partners
• Kate Pullinger, writer
• Nancy Ruenzel, Peachpit Press
• Miral Sattar, BiblioCrunch
• Bob Stein, SocialBook
• Stefanie Syman, Atavist
• Michael Tamblyn, Kobo Books
• Clive Thompson, Wired
• Adam Witwer, O’Reilly Media
• Laura Dawson, Bowker

Books in Browsers 2012 will return to the Internet Archive!

We will be in the upstairs pews area, not downstairs, for those who are familiar with our facility.

Sponsoring options are now available; please contact me for more information.

We will require registration fees this year for the first time to offset our costs; however, I expect the attendance will be slightly larger. Registration costs will be partially offset for not-for-profits, educational, early-stage startups, and invited independent professionals. As before, special attention will be provided international attendees.

More information will be available soon.

Books in Browsers 2012 will focus on authoring platforms, portability of the reading experience, and open ebook standards. Stay tuned for more!

Please hold the Dates: October 25-26, 2012, in San Francisco!

Save the date!

October 25-26, 2012

Books in Browsers 2012 will be held on Thursday – Friday, October 25-26, 2012 in San Francisco, with an RSVP event on Wednesday night, October 24.

We look forward to seeing you!

The Internet Archive and O’Reilly Media

welcome our attendees and sponsors!

With major support from Safari Books Online:

Sponsorship gift from Ingram VitalSource:

Accessories from Ibis Reader:

Official bookstore is Green Apple Books:

Join the Internet Archive, O’Reilly Media, and 150 of the most exciting and innovative leaders in publishing on Thursday night, October 27 for BiB: Ignite! The program will run from 18:30-19:30 (6:30-7:30 pm), at the Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue in San Francisco. Reception starts at 17:30 (5:30 pm).

Ignite talks are special format where each speaker has just five minutes to share their personal and professional visions in 20 slides, auto-advancing every 15 seconds.

The Ignite program will bring the latest news from the Archive’s Open Library project plus 10 of the hottest new companies from around the world, many of them just emerging from stealth, that are defining the future of reading and publishing. Several of these startups will be presenting their work for the very first time.

Join us for a couple of hours on a Thursday night, and get a peek at the future of books!
Press are welcome. Please RSVP at RSVP@archive.org.

1. Brewster Kahle: An Introduction
2. Brewster Kahle: Open Library
3. Rochelle Grayson : BookRiff
4. Henrik Berggren : Readmill
5. Eli James : Pandamian
6. Hugh McGuire : Pressbooks
7. Mogens Nielsen : Flatleaf
8. Miral Sattar : BiblioCrunch
9. Ricky Wong : Mobnotate
10. Justo Hidalgo : 24Symbols
11. Mikkel Ricky : Systime iBogen

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Detailed Schedule

October 26-28, 2011

@ the Internet Archive
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA

… with major sponsorship from Safari Books Online

Videos of many of these talks are available on O’Reilly Media at YouTube.

Wednesday evening

O’Reilly Media invites. @ The Kabuki Hotel.

Thursday

08:30-09:00. Initio
Introduction and Welcome. Kat Meyer (O’Reilly Media), Peter Brantley (Internet Archive)

09:00-10:00. Morning session 1.
EPUB — out of the box. Bill McCoy (IDPF).
Elegantly On- and Offline. Blaine Cook (Programmer), Maureen Evans (Author).

10:00-10:15. Break

10:15-11:15. Morning session 2.
The Network is Overrated. Eric Hellman (Gluejar).
The Ebook’s Ambit. Joseph Pearson (Inventive Labs).

11:15-11:30. Break

11:30-12:30. Morning session 3.
Books in Browsers, 1994-2004. Michael Jensen (NAS).
The Future Now: The Social Book. Bob Stein (SocialBook).

12:30-13:30. Lunch

13:30-14:30. Afternoon session 1.
Electric Incunabula: progressive interactive book design. Corey Pressman (Exprima Media).
Beautiful Books. Craig Mod (Flipboard).
The Infinite Canvas. Peter Meyers (Author).

14:30-14:45. Break

14:45-15:45. Afternoon session 2: Standards
Bookmarks: reports. Todd Carpenter (NISO), Rob Sanderson (LANL), James Bridle (Booktwo).
OPDS v1.1+. Hadrien Gardeur (Feedbooks).

15:45-16:00. Break

16:00-16:45. Afternoon session 3.
First Draft of the Revolution: discoverable narratives in digital works. Liza Daly (Threepress).
Findings: Preliminary Days. Corey Menscher (Findings).

16:45-17:00. Lagniappe
Libros sin fronteras. Javier Celaya (Dos Doce).

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17:00-18:00. Optional Round Tables:
EPUB4: Engineering the networked experience. Bill McCoy (IDPF).

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Evening:

17:30-18:30. Reception.
18:30-19:30. Books in Browsers: Ignite.  Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive).

Friday

08:30-09:00. Re-engage
Networked books and networked reading. Kevin Kelly (Wired).

09:00-10:00. Morning session 1.
Honey to Bees. Eli James (Pandamian).
The Beauty of Web-first Workflows. Hugh McGuire (Bookoven).
Sly Mongoose: A Responsive Comic. Pablo Defendini (Open Road Media).

10:00-10:15. Break

10:15-11:15. Morning session 2.
Self Publishing Tools and APIs. Miral Sattar (BiblioCrunch).
It may be a mob, but it’s my mob. Richard Nash (Cursor Books).
(Smart) social reading. Ricky Wong (Mobnotate).

11:15-11:30. Break

11:30-12:30. Morning session 3. Privacy and Accessibility
Digital books: a new chapter for reader privacy. Nicole Ozer (ACLU)
Readers and Accessibility. Mary Lou Jepsen (Pixel Qi)

12:30-13:30. Lunch

13:30-14:30. Afternoon session 1.
Books as Data. James Bridle (Booktwo/STML).
To the end, Lew. Valla Vakili (Smalldemons).
Beyond the Encyclopedia: Non-linear reference works. Gordon Mohr (Infinithree).

14:30-14:45. Break

14:45-15:45. Afternoon session 2.
COMA Voyager. Toshiaki Koike, Daihei Shiohama (Voyager Japan).
Shared Canvas. Rob Sanderson (LANL) and Benjamin Albritton (Stanford Univ.)
Beautiful Art (Books) [epub]. Greg Albers (Hol Art Books).

15:45-16:15. Break

16:15-16:55. Afternoon session 3. Business
Competing in an Unpredictable World. Kassia Krozser (Booksquare).
Personalization in Transmedia Storytelling. Kevin Franco (Enthrill).

17:00-17:30. Finale
The opportunity in Abundance. Brian O’Leary (Magellan Media Partners).

Thank you!