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
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