Google’s Jim Gerber to Keynote 2007 Book Business Conference
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Book Business magazine proudly announces Google’s Jim Gerber as keynote speaker for the upcoming 2007 Book Business Conference and Expo, scheduled for March 5-7, 2007, at the New York Marriott Marquis, Times Square.
Gerber, director of content partnerships at Google, will present the Keynote Address on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 9:15 a.m. The Keynote Address is open to all registered attendees.
“We are thrilled to have Jim give the keynote address at the Book Business Conference and Expo. There are few companies that have as profound an influence on publishing today as Google, so it’s a major boon for our audience of publishing executives to be able to hear Jim speak in person,” says Noelle Skodzinski, Book Business Conference director and editor in chief of Book Business magazine. “I don’t know any publishing executives who will want to miss this.”
Gerber is in charge of partner recruitment and management for Google’s content acquisition initiatives for published content, including books, journals, magazines and newspapers. This corresponds to Google products such as Google Book Search, Google Scholar and Google News Archive Search, among others. His team is responsible for the many hundreds of partners participating in these initiatives. Gerber has over 18 years of sales, business development and product marketing experience in technology related businesses.
ABOUT BOOK BUSINESS CONFERENCE & EXPO 2007
The Book Business Conference & Expo is produced by North American Publishing Comapny (NAPCO), publisher of Book Business, Publishing Executive, Target Marketing, In-Plant Graphics, Printing Impressions, and several other leading trade periodicals.
The Book Business Conference and Expo 2007 is held concurrently with NAPCO’s annual Publishing Executive Conference and Expo.
In addition to the robust conference program, Book Business Conference & Expo will be hosting an expo complete with over 100 of the industry’s top technology and service providers, including confirmed exhibitors such as: Banta Book Group, Courier Corp., Glatfelter, International Paper, Timsons, Univenture, Inc., Webcrafters, Inc., Xerox Corporation and many more. The event is North America’s largest exhibition of publishing and production technology and services.
Publishing professionals should REGISTER NOW to guarantee availability, and to take advantage of special pre-show advance order discount pricing. Publishing industry professionals can receive a FREE Exhibit Hall and Keynote Address Pass by using DISCOUNT CODE: PR-25, SAVE $100 on the Full Conference Pass with DISCOUNT CODE: PR-100 or SAVE $50 on a One Day Pass (Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday Only) with DISCOUNT CODE: PR-50. For complete registration, conference and exhibit information, go to www.BookBusinessExpo.coms
ABOUT GOOGLE
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
ABOUT BOOK BUSINESS MAGAZINE
For almost a decade, Book Business magazine has provided executives in the book publishing market with the practical information, strategies, tactics, technologies and techniques to succeed in these dynamic and changing times. Subscribe now at www.BookBusinessMag.com
ABOUT NAPCO
Philadelphia-based North American Publishing Company offers more than 15 information-based print, digital, and Internet products, and produces leading trade expositions. NAPCO builds on 50 years of service to existing and emerging new markets in commercial printing and graphic arts, direct marketing, publishing, consumer electronics, and broadcasting.
