O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change for Publishing (@ToC) (#toccon) was held in New York City Feb. 13-15. It’s the annual conference for professionals to discuss where digital publishing is headed.
Some sessions are available to watch on video; for example Andrew Savikas (@andrewsavikas), CEO at Safari Books Online (@safaribooks) gave a presentation on the growth of subscription-based access to books online.
Also see O’Reilly’s TOC 2012 YouTube channel.
In “TOC 2012: LeVar Burton, Libraries and The Bookstore of the Future,” Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) senior news editor Calvin Reid (@calreid) says,
Probably the most startling presentation of the day was “Kepler 2020,” a look at the efforts to transform the iconic independent bookstores into a new wave community owned bookstore that will embrace technology and a fairly breathtaking slate of new initiatives. Among them: split the store into for-profit sales and non-profit cultural foundation entities; diversify beyond the sale of print books to include services, subscriptions, memberships and corporate sponsorships, and aggressively adopt technology, including digital e-readers and e-books, perhaps even giveaway Kindles and Nooks!
Also see PW’s “TOC 2012: Executive Roundtable Debates the Way Ahead.”
Bob Young (@caretakerbob), founder and CEO of Lulu (@Luludotcom), spoke on “There Is No Such Thing As a Book, or Re-Thinking Publishing In The Age of the Internet.”
Other coverage can be seen at ePUBSecrets (@ePUBSecrets), “More ePUB Resources from Day 2 of TOC.”
Extensive TOC coverage is by Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) in “Writing on the Ether.” Also see his comprehensive Twitter stream aggregation.
Joe Wikert (@jwikert), general manager, publisher & chair of TOC conference, has coverage.
And see American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association (@amlibraries), coverage “Tools of Change Conference, Day 1” and “Tools of Change Conference, Day 2”
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