TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Tools of change http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Feeling Rudderless with the Loss of O’Reilly’s TOC? Consider This http://www.teleread.com/events/feeling-rudderless-with-the-loss-of-oreillys-toc-consider-this/ http://www.teleread.com/events/feeling-rudderless-with-the-loss-of-oreillys-toc-consider-this/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 01:37:05 +0000 Lynn Rosen http://www.teleread.com/?p=84762 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-google-books-appeal-the-death-of-toc/feed/ 0 BREAKING: O’Reilly Media Retiring the Tools of Change Conference and TOC Blog http://www.teleread.com/toc/breaking-oreilly-media-retiring-the-toc-conference-and-toc-blog/ http://www.teleread.com/toc/breaking-oreilly-media-retiring-the-toc-conference-and-toc-blog/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 02:15:04 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=84312 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/toc/breaking-oreilly-media-retiring-the-toc-conference-and-toc-blog/feed/ 0 How to build you very own Little Free Library http://www.teleread.com/library/how-to-build-you-very-own-little-free-library/ http://www.teleread.com/library/how-to-build-you-very-own-little-free-library/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:12:29 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=82977 I vaguely remember seeing a few blog posts and photo-heavy features here and there in months past about tiny, DIY libraries. It always seemed to me like the sort of thing you might expect to see in one of those weird BuzzFeed roundups: 12 Oddball Book Lovers Who’ve Built Tiny Libraries On the Side of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/how-to-build-you-very-own-little-free-library/feed/ 0 At TOC, a Tempest of paradigm-challenging ideas on what an e-book can be and do http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/at-toc-a-tempest-of-paradigm-challenging-ideas-on-what-an-ebook-can-be-and-do/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/at-toc-a-tempest-of-paradigm-challenging-ideas-on-what-an-ebook-can-be-and-do/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:07:20 +0000 Lynn Rosen http://www.teleread.com/?p=79044 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/at-toc-a-tempest-of-paradigm-challenging-ideas-on-what-an-ebook-can-be-and-do/feed/ 0 Weekend Roundup — Tips for self-publishers, and other must-reads http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/weekend-roundup/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/weekend-roundup/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:28:49 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=77974 Tools of Change is Almost Here (Good E-Reader) Australian Bookseller Mary Ryan’s Opens New eBook Kiosk (The Digital Reader) How EBook Readers Shop and the Importance of Sampling (The Creative Penn) Dan Blank and Seth Godin on The Icarus Deception, Book Publishing, and Today’s Author (The Book Designer) Kindle Daily Deals: Beautiful Boy by David Sheff [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/weekend-roundup/feed/ 1 Buy Once, Sync Anywhere: Could it really be that simple? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/buy-once-sync-anywhere-is-it-really-that-simple/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/buy-once-sync-anywhere-is-it-really-that-simple/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:23:43 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=75301 The UK-based startup known as ValoBox has been in business for a little over a month now—it launched just a few days before Halloween of this year. To explain the basics of the company’s business model in layman’s terms, it essentially offers two different digital reading services that seem fairly compelling, at least at first glance: It [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/buy-once-sync-anywhere-is-it-really-that-simple/feed/ 1 Registration Now Open for O’Reilly’s 2013 TOC Conference http://www.teleread.com/events/registration-now-open-for-oreillys-2013-toc-conference/ http://www.teleread.com/events/registration-now-open-for-oreillys-2013-toc-conference/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:47:21 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=73191   It is a truth universally acknowledged that a publisher in possession of a rich future must want to attend TOC. Publishers and everyone who wants to master the forces transforming the publishing world can collaborate on the future of books and reading at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. TOC returns to New York City February 12-14, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/oreilly/first-mini-tools-of-change-conference-this-wednesday-in-portland/feed/ 0 New series of webcasts from Tools of Change http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/new-series-of-webcasts-from-tools-of-change/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/new-series-of-webcasts-from-tools-of-change/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 13:22:51 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=56585 Received the following email from O’Reilly and thought it would be of interest: We’re starting a series of TOC webcasts that I hope you’ll share with your readers. They start next week, andJoe wikert just announced them at http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/toc-webcasts-sneakpeek-tamblyn.html We’re calling this new TOC webcast series SneakPeeks, and they’ll offer a pre-release look at some of the best publishing [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/new-series-of-webcasts-from-tools-of-change/feed/ 0 Margaret Atwood’s TOC Keynote now live http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/margaret-atwoods-toc-keynote-now-live/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/margaret-atwoods-toc-keynote-now-live/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:03:01 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=53823 Atwood’s talk was funny and charming, as were her delightful hand-drawn illustrations. Recommended viewing.

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/screencast-of-brian-olearys-talk-at-toc-contest-first-a-unified-field-theory-of-publishing/feed/ 2 How Apple may inadvertently boost ebook linking, by Eric Hellman http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/how-apple-may-inadvertently-boost-ebook-linking-by-eric-hellman/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/how-apple-may-inadvertently-boost-ebook-linking-by-eric-hellman/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:06:04 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=53709 “The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore, 1993 The official word from Apple finally came out today, in their press release announcing in-app subscriptions. In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/how-apple-may-inadvertently-boost-ebook-linking-by-eric-hellman/feed/ 2 Editor’s Pick of the Week: Tools of Change edition http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/editors-pick-of-the-week-tools-of-change-edition/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/editors-pick-of-the-week-tools-of-change-edition/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 05:02:15 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=53669 Tools of Change: Workship – designing iPad apps Tools of Change: Workshop – Financial Modeling for Digital Products Tools of Change: Plenary – Context first: A unified field theory of publishing Tools of Change: Plenary – the cloud makes global local Tools of Change: Ereading survey findings and research Tools of Change: Bookselling in the [...]

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