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Feeling Rudderless with the Loss of O’Reilly’s TOC? Consider This

Lynn Rosen — Sat, 11 May 2013 01:37:05 +0000

Much conversation and virtual space has been devoted over the last week to the announcement by O’Reilly that they are discontinuing the Tools of Change conference. The announcement stunned many, and lamentation abounded at the loss of what had been, for many, a forum for hearing new ideas and, equally important, an arena for networking [...]

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BREAKING: O’Reilly Media Retiring the Tools of Change Conference and TOC Blog

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:15:04 +0000

Earlier today, O’Reilly Media founder Tim O’Reilly announced in a blog post that after seven years of hosting the Tools of Change for Publishing conference, a digital publishing event attended annually by many of the biggest names and most important members of the industry, the conference is being officially retired. Also folding along with the [...]

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At TOC, a Tempest of paradigm-challenging ideas on what an e-book can be and do

Lynn Rosen — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:07:20 +0000

O wonder! How many goodly books are there here! How beauteous publishing is! I attended the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) conference this past Tuesday and learned about a topic that captivates me: new forms that books are able to take when they are conceived as e-books. There is so much creative work being done [...]

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Morning Links — New ideas from TOC 2013, and more

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:00:43 +0000

Five Slightly Unexpected Tips For Self-Published Authors to Find Success (DBW) The Crazy Plan to Save Barnes & Noble (DBW) “Used Ebooks” Hurts My Brain (Book Riot) Little, Brown’s NOVL Approach to Reaching Readers Online (Publisher’s Weekly) Is “Discoverability” Even A Problem? (Brett Sandusky) Kindle Daily Deals: The Informationist by Taylor Stevens (and 3 others)

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Our upcoming TOC 2013 coverage

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:39:06 +0000

O’Reilly’s annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference just got underway this morning at the New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. And while we unfortunately weren’t able to make it New York for the event’s first day, we will be on the scene, tweeting and reporting live, throughout days two and three. Today’s big TOC [...]

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PDF is most popular format, PC is most popular reader for O’Reilly e-book customers

Chris Meadows — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:15:00 +0000

O’Reilly TOC general manager and occasional TeleRead contributor Joe Wilkert has a piece up on O’Reilly Radar looking at a survey O’Reilly recently conducted of its e-book customers, asking on what devices and in which formats they planned to do most of their e-book reading. Wilkert reports that the most popular non-PC e-reading device, with [...]

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First “Mini Tools of Change” conference this Wednesday in Portland

Chris Walters — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:14:24 +0000

O’Reilly Media is trying out a new smaller, traveling version of its hugely popular Tools of Change conferences, called miniTOC. The first one takes place in Portland, Oregon this Wednesday the 27th, and will explore current trends in digital publishing from a local perspective: miniTOC Portland provides an opportunity for Portland’s publishing and tech luminaries [...]

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Metadata, not ebooks, can save publishing

Paul Biba — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:40:07 +0000

Here’s another one from Tools of Change. It’s an important subject and I hear over and over at seminars, and read over and over in articles, that publishers are not paying enough attention to the interrelationship between metadata and digital publishing. This is from an article by Nick Ruffilo: Why won’t ebooks save publishing? E-books [...]

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Ricoh Innovations adds e-footnotes without QR codes

Chris Meadows — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:08:57 +0000

Last month, I mentioned Ubimark’s publication of a print edition of Around the World in 80 Days with “e-footnotes”—QR codes that can be scanned by a free iPhone app to turn into links to webpages with additional content. Now Tools of Change reports that Ricoh Innovations is set to allow publishers to do the same [...]

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Publishing books with WordPress

Chris Meadows — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:58:36 +0000

On O’Reilly’s Tools of Change blog, Hugh McGuire—the co-developer of the Book Oven on-line content management system for publishing, among other things—explains why a better publishing platform might actually be made from WordPress, of all things. McGuire started Book Oven with the goal of building books “in the cloud”, so that online collaboration would be [...]

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Kassia Kroszer’s observations on Tools of Change

Chris Meadows — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:15:00 +0000

Kassia Kroszer at Booksquare has a great wrap-up of the Tools of Change conference, in which she talks about her own and others’ presentations, links to interesting blog articles, and shares some general thoughts on the state of the e-publishing industry at this point. There are far too many interesting observations to summarize, so I’ll [...]

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Richard Nash discusses ‘Publishing 2.0’

Chris Meadows — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I saw a post on O’Reilly’s Tools of Change website that I wanted to cover, but it was so long that I never actually got around to looking at it in the detail I needed, until now. Fortunately, the article is still no less timely. This piece is an interview [...]

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TOC Report: my thoughts on how TOC went this year

Paul Biba — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:35:24 +0000

I’m back from an exhausting time of trying to cover TOC for you guys and here are a few thoughts about my overall impression of the conference. TOC is a rather odd duck in that I don’t think it quite knows who is eating its eggs. It is a mixture of low level, in the [...]

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Final TOC Report: Keynote, The future of digital distribution and ebook marketing

Paul Biba — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:04:56 +0000

Tim O”Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly media. Challenge is not to build the coolest and most enhanced ebooks. The publisher will never be a winner in a technology race. Innovations do come from publishers, but that’s not the heart of what publishers do. Publishers’ job is to do for authors those things that authors [...]

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TOC Report: Keynote, 1,001 Arabian rights; digital publishing and its role in exposing non-English languages

Paul Biba — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:24 +0000

Ramy Habeeb, established first Arabic language ebook house. Arab publishing market behind western publishing, and its lessons also applicable to other emerging economies. 60,000 titles published every year. Arabic market is the size of the US. Problems: distribution is still very primitive, In Egypt, 80% of books only available within 5 kilometers of publishing house. [...]

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