Registration Now Open for Book Business' Free Virtual Event: Digital Content Day @ Your Desk
Registration is now open for Book Business magazine's first-ever Publishing Business Virtual Conference & Expo—Digital Content Day @ Your Desk—which will be held on Thursday, Oct. 29. The virtual show is free to all registrants and will offer a full day of interactive conference programming, including live and on-demand educational sessions and audio and e-chats with industry-leading digital-content experts.
The event will be accessible from any computer. Attendees will find the virtual show resembling an actual trade show, including an auditorium for the keynote address, an exhibit hall and a networking lounge.
The show also offers attendees the opportunity to browse an expo featuring leading digital publishing services and solutions, as well as the ability to chat with knowledgeable experts from various solutions providers.
Conference programming will feature a full day of expert speakers exploring how publishers must adapt to succeed with their digital publishing strategies including sessions on:
• Shifting business models
• Print-on-demand
• Social media
• E-book pricing
• Digital rights management
• Online piracy
• The Book Rights Registry
… and more.
Speakers include:
• Daphne Ireland, Director of Intellectual Property and Documentary Publishing, Princeton University Press;
• Brian O’Leary, President, Magellan Media;
• Andrew Savikas, Vice President of Digital Initiatives, O’Reilly Media;
• Gigi Brienza, Vice President of Editing, Design, Production & Manufacturing, and Director, Stock Planning, Oxford University Press;
• Peter Balis, Director of Digital Content Sales, John Wiley & Sons;
• Peter Olson, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School, and former Random House CEO;
• Evan Schnittman, Vice President, Global Business Development, Oxford University Press;
• Cynthia Cleto, Global Manager of E-books, Springer Science+Business Media;
• Michael Healy, executive director, BISG, and forthcoming executive director, Book Rights Registry;
… among others.
"We're excited to be able to offer this important event to the industry—for free, and especially during a time when travel budgets have been cut significantly at many publishing companies. Executives don't even have to leave their desks to attend the sessions and hear from leading experts in digital strategy, or browse the exhibitor booths," says Noelle Skodzinski, Book Business editor-in-chief. "Plus, the networking features built in to the virtual-event platform enable attendees to chat with each other and with the exhibitors, as well as submit questions to many of the speakers, so you're getting many of the benefits of a live event."
