Digital Book World 2014 Presentations

View the presentations shared by some of our Digital Book World speakers below. Click any of the session titles below to view or download the presentations.  Check back often for new additions to the page.

Launch Kids

Digital Design & Production Conference

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Monday, January 13, 2014 - Launch Kids

Including presentations from:
Stacey Matthias, Co-CEO, Insight Strategy Group (@InsightMuse)
Jonathan Nowell & Jo Henry, Nielsen Book (@NielsenBook)
Tara Catogge, Senior Vice President of Marketing, ReaderLink (@Readerlink)
Digital Book World & PlayCollective (@DigiBookWorld | @PlayScience)
Eric Huang, Development Director, Made in Me (@dinoboy89 | @hello_madeinme)
Shane Armstrong, EVP/President, International, Scholastic (@Scholastic)
Sarah Mlynowski, Author of Whatever After (Scholastic) and the upcoming Don’t Even Think About It (Random House) (@SarahMlynowski)
Kristen McLean, Founder & CEO, Bookigee.com (@BKGKristen | @Bookigee)
Marjan Ghara, Founder & CEO, BiblioNasium (@gharajm | @BiblioNasium)
Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks (@draccah | @Sourcebooks)
Jess Brallier, SVP and Publisher, Poptropica/Pearson (@pearson)

To view all of the Launch Kids presentations, click here.

Monday, January 13, 2014 - Digital Design & Production Conference

8:30 am - 10:00 am - Production Track: A Practical Introduction to ePub3

Joshua Tallent, Chief eBook Architect, Firebrand Technologies (@jtallent)

8:30 am - 10:00 am - Design Track: Ebook Design: Beyond Straight Test

Colleen Cunningham, Ebook Developer, F+W Media, Inc (@BookDesignGirl)

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Production Track: Advanced EPUB creation for iPad with Adobe InDesign CC

Chris Kitchener, Group Product Manager, Adobe Systems Inc.

Douglas Waterfall, Architect, InDesign Engineering, Adobe Systems Inc.

Monday, January 13, 2014 - Workshops 

Michael Healy, Executive Director (Author and Publisher Relations), Copyright Clearance Center (@MJHealy)
Skott Klebe, Product Evangelist, Copyright Clearance Center (@skottk)
Devereux Chatillon, Attorney, Chatillon Law
Bill Rosenblatt, President, GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies (@copyrightandtec)
Kimberly Potvin, Director of Content Acquisition and Intellectual Property Practices, Cengage Learning

9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Finding and Building an Audience: On Discovery and Discoverability

Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com (@arhomberg)
Ashleigh Gardner, Head of Content, Wattpad (@AshleighGardner)

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - Digital Book World

8:35 am - 8:50 am - The Past, Present, and Future of Publishing

Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company (@MikeShatzkin)

9:30 am - 9:45 am - Change is Good: How to Get Your Organization Moving Faster

Carolyn Pittis, Managing Director, Welman Digital LLC (@carolynpittis)

Mike Shatzkin, Conference Council Chair, Founder & CEO, The Idea Logical Company (@MikeShatzkin)

11:05 am - 11:20 am - Publishers in a Tech-Driven World - Partner or Perish

Andrew Rhomberg, Founder, Jellybooks.com (@arhomberg)

11:20 am - 11:30 am - Branded Authors: What Every Publisher Needs to Know

Peter Hildick-Smith, Founder & CEO, Codex Group

1:30 am - 2:20 pm - HTML5 is the Future of Book Authorship

Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc. (@timoreilly)
Sanders Kleinfeld, Publishing Technology Engineer, O'Reilly Media (@sandersk)

2:30 pm - 3:20 pm - New Opportunities with Common Core and Digital Content in the Classroom

Neal Goff, President, Egremont Associates, LLC (@nealgoff)
Roy Kaufman, Managing Director of New Ventures, Copyright Clearance Center (@copyrightclear)
Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, New Canaan High School (@mluhtala)
Jeff Livingston, SVP, Education Policy and Strategic Alliances, McGraw-Hill Education (@livingjeff)
Mary-Alice Moore, VP, Editorial Director, Book Publishing, Boyds Mills Press and Highlights For Children Inc. (@mambooks)

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - Case Study: DeMarque - The New Library Model

Marc Boutet, Co-Founder/President and CEO, De Marque (@De_Marque)

4:00 pm - 4:50 pm - Understanding and Reaching the YA Market

Sean Moss, Digital Marketing Officer, Walker Books  (@seanpmoss)
Marianna Ricciuto, Digital Commerce Manager & Online Marketer, Harlequin Teen (@HarlequinTEEN)
Alvina Ling, Executive Editorial Director, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (@planetalvina)
Jean Feiwel, Publisher, Swoon Reads, Macmillan (@SwoonReads)
Kristen McLean, Founder & CEO, Bookigee.com (@BKGKristen | @Bookigee)

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - Digital Book World

9:05 am - 9:15 am - Amazon's Growing Share of the Institutional Market

Joseph Esposito, Independent Management Consultant (@JosephJEsposito)

10:15 am - 10:30 am - What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information

Emanuel Rosen, Author, The Anatomy of Buzz/Absolute Value (@EmanuelRosen)

10:30 am - 10:45 am - What Authors Want: Understanding Author Priorities in the Self-Publishing Era

Phil Sexton, Publisher, Writer's Digest (@psexton1)

10:45 am - 11:00 am - Should Traditional Publishers Feel Threatened by the Potential of Self-Publishing?

Dana Beth Weinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research, Queens College - CUNY (@DBWeinberg)

11:25 am - 12:15 pm - Examining New Business Models

John Tayman, Founder and CEO, Byliner (@motormouths)
Karl Weber, Chairman, Editorial Board, LID Publishing (@kweberlit)
Chris Kenneally, Director, Business Development & Author Relations, Copyright Clearance Center (@copyrightclear)
Lyron Bennett, Business Development Manager, Sourcebooks (@PutMeInTheStory)
Brandi Larsen, Book Country Director, Penguin Random House (@brandilarsen)

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm - Case Study: Bowker - Metadata and Identifiers Driving New Business Models

Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker (@ljndawson)
Han Huang, Product Manager, Data Licensing, Bowker (@Bowker)
Patricia Payton, Senior Manager, Publisher Relations and Content Development, Bowker (@DiscoverBowker)

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm - Case Study: Qbend - Selling Direct and Building Your Community

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm - Case Study Datamatics - Tools for Seeing What's Next

Gordon Laws, Senior Vice President, Datamatics-PMG (@DGSL)

1:45 pm - 2:35 pm - Optimizing Metadata for Global Impact

Cameron Drew, Director, Global Content Acquisition, Kobo, Inc. (@kobo)
Len Vlahos, Executive Director, BISG (@LenVlahos)
Phil Madans, Director, Publishing Standards and Practices, Hachette Book Group (@philmadans)
Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker (@ljndawson)
Noah Genner, President & CEO, BookNet Canada (@BookNet_Canada)

1:45 pm - 2:35 pm - Agile Content: Developing Responsive Publishing Models

Michael Cairns, Chief Operating Officer - Online Division, Publishing Technology (@Personanondata)
Amanda D'Acierno, SVP, Publisher, Penguin Random House Audio, Fodor's and Living Language (@fodorstravel)
Pip Tannenbaum, Digital Product Development Director, Parragon Books (@parragonbooks)

2:45 pm - 3:35 pm - Publishers Building Vertical Communities

Randy Petway, Chief Operating Officer, Publishing Technology (@publishingtech)
Lucille Rettino, Vice President, Director of Marketing, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Jeanenne Ray, Senior Marketing Manager, John Wiley and Sons (@jeanenne)
Erin Cox, Business Development Director , Publishing Perspectives (@erinlcox)
Irene Gallo, Associate Publisher, Tor.com (@IreneGallo)

2:45 pm - 3:35 pm - Subscription Service Providers

Devereux Chatillon, Attorney, Chatillon Law
Bryan Batten, Founder, Entitlebooks.com (@bryanbatten)
Andrew Weinstein, Vice President, Content Acquisition, Scribd (@Scribd)
Matthew Shatz, Head of Strategy and Partnerships, Oyster (@mattschatz1)
Justo Hidalgo, Co-Founder, 24symbols (@justohidalgo)

4:20 pm - 4:35 pm - Rethinking Failure: Finding the Opportunities in Our Challenges

Dominique Raccah, CEO & Publisher, Sourcebooks (@draccah | @Sourcebooks)