The Books in Browsers conference that met at the Internet Archive in San Francisco October 21 & 22 was a great experience for me and I’m sure for most of the approximately 100 attendees.

Follow-up: Conference reports & Commentaries – Most recent at the top

• Books in Browsers, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Chronicle of Higher Educ, Jan 18, 2011
• Conference photos, (now with names to faces!), by Andrys Basten (@kindleworld)
• Books in Browsers? Google, Amazon bring eBooks to the Masses, Carla King, PBS, Dec 17
• Andrys Basten (@kindleworld) comments on Bib10 in article on Google eBooks & Kindle/Web
• Mike Ang Previews New BookReader at BiB10, Eric Rumsey (@ericrumseytemp), Oct 29
• Thoughts on Innovation: My attempt at understanding BiB10, Fran Toolan (@ftoolan), Oct 29
• The Future of Reading: Books in Browsers, Patrick Brown (@patrickrbrown), Oct 29
• Books in Browsers 2010 – Summary, in Italian, Letizia Sechi (@letiziasechi), Oct 28
• Leaving the book behind, Eli James (@shadowsun7), Oct 27
• Books in Browsers: Recaps from the @internetarchive (IA blog post), Oct 26
• Post-BiB10 Thoughts: Mostly About User Experience, Kassia Krozser (@booksquare), Oct 26
• Giving Context to Digital Books: Google Book Search, Eric Rumsey (@ericrumseytemp), Oct 26
• Conference-related links from Resource Shelf, Oct 24
• Books in Browsers @ the Internet Archive – Report by SK Klein (@metasj), Oct 22
• BiB10-related links on Internet Archive site – Pictures, various videos: BiB10 home page? >> “Recently reviewed items (Search results)”
  .   .   .   Reports from Jeff Kaplan at IA blog, with pictures – Day 1 (longer) . .  Day 2 (shorter)
  .   .   .   Pictures (BookReader thumbnail view): Day 1 | Evening with Brewster | Day 2
• BiB10 attendees – All . . On Twitter
• BLAINE Cook’s Twitter List that gives a live feed of all Twittering attendees

Presentations – List is derived from the pre-conference Agenda. Twitter addresses are included for presenters who have them — For other attenders on Twitter see here.

Thursday, October 21

• Allen Noren (@allennoren), O’Reilly Media – Books in Browsers
• Bill McCoy, Webpaper – Browsers for Books: Formats and User Experiences for Digital Reading   [Slides]
• Dominique Raccah (@draccah), Sourcebooks – Immersion: What we actually know about adding media to books
• Waldo Jaquith (@jaquith), VQR – EPUB for website producers
• Keith Fahlgren (@abdelazer), Ibis Reader – Piercing the Clouds: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Web-based Reading   [Slides]
• Nicole Ozer, ACLU – Digital Books: A New Chapter for Reader Privacy
• Jason Schultz (@jason_schultz_), UC Berkeley – Using open licenses to ensure reader privacy
• SJ Klein (@metasj), OLPC – Rural uses of browser books   [Description: PPT Slides]
• Jim Fruchterman (@JRandomF), Benetech – Accessibility for browser based books
• Joseph Pearson (@josephpearson), Inventive Labs – How we’re using Monocle in the Labs
• Minh Truong (@minh_truong), Aldiko – Books and Apps
• Daihei Shiohama, Voyager Japan – From mobile comics to broad platform experiences
• Michael Ang (@mangbot), Internet Archive – Designing books for touch   [Slides in New version of BookReader | Old version]
• Keynote: Brian O’Leary (@brianoleary), Magellan Partners – A Unified Field Theory of Publishing   [Full-text]
• Evening Keynote: Books in Browsers – Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive   [Video & Text]

Friday, October 22

• Keynote: Bob Stein (@ifbook), If:Book – For publishers, working together to support an open-source platform for Social Reading is the key to taking the initiative back from Amazon, Apple and Google   [Background]
• Keynote: Richard Nash (@R_Nash), Cursor Books – Remember, the reader writes, too… On how discoverability begins with the writer.
• Kovid Goyal, Calibre – An Alexandria in every neighborhood
• Aaron Miller (@bookglutton), Bookglutton – A network of Books [Slides]
• Otis Chandler (@otown), GoodReads – Finding Shelf Space in a World Without Shelves   [Slides]
• Hadrien Gardeur (@Hadrien), Feedbooks – A Connected Bookshelf   [Slides]
• Michael Tamblyn (@mtamblyn), Kobo Books – Life Among the Freegans: The Co-Existence of Free Books, Paid Books, and the People Who Read Them
• Erin McKean (@emckean), Wordnik – Things are looking up for looking things up?
• Eli James (@shadowsun7), Novelr – Pandamian: A Publishing Support Layer   [Full-text]
• Kevin Franco (@FRANCOMEDIA), Francomedia – Thriller-based Transmedia and the reader experience
• Fran Toolan (@ftoolan), Firebrand – A Conversation: Rights in the Book Web
• Keynote: Matthew Bernius (@mattBernius), RIT – Returning to the Canon for Inspiration: Vannevar Bush, Walter Benjamin, and the future of reading   [Links]
• Pecha Kucha 7 …
  Blaine Cook (@blaine), Romeda
  Craig Mod (@craigmod), “Post Artifact Story Telling”
  Jacob Lewis (@jacoblewism), Figment
  Cart Reed (@Ebooq), Ebooq

Eric Rumsey is at: eric-rumseytemp AttSign uiowa dott edu and on Twitter @ericrumseytemp