2010 Speaker Lineup

Mike Shatzkin, Conference Chair, and founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company has been a leading industry spokesman and commentator on digital change for 20 years. And for more than 30 years, he has been a consultant to most major publishers, vendors and trading partners particularly in the area of new technology. Mike has created our program and selected these expert speakers based on his decades of experience across the industry and with direct input of our esteemed Advisory Board.

They’re the industry’s top insiders—all experts at the forefront of digital publishing—and they’ll hold in-depth discussions on driving new revenues and adapting current business models to thrive in the digital landscape.

You can’t afford to miss their sessions, which address the vital issues affecting publishers right now. They’ll help you overcome the challenges presented by the digital age and use its benefits to create a strategic business model that positions your company for immediate success and future growth.




Shiv Singh 
Razorfish
OPENING KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Shiv has been with Razorfish since 1999 and, he has worked in the Boston, New York, San Francisco and London offices. As the company's Global Social Media Lead, Shiv helps the agency introduce its clients such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Microsoft, Citibank, Ford Motor Company, Panasonic, Novartis and Starwood to social influence marketing- or, how to incorporate social media and social technologies to support marketing and business objectives. His role also includes capability development, developing strategic partnerships, leading thought leadership efforts and encouraging experimentation with social media across the agency... Read More




Mary Aarons 
Quayside Publishing Group 
Selling Direct to the Consumer: Risks and Rewards... What are Best Practices for Publishers?

Mary Aarons is director of Direct Sales & E-Marketing at the Quayside Publishing Group, a role that also includes setting the course for Quayside’s digital initiatives. Mary began as a trainee in the production department at Random House thirty years ago when the word digital was not even part of our vernacular. She has worked at a variety of New York, Los Angeles and Boston-area publishing companies ever since... Read More




Margo Baldwin 
Chelsea Green Publishing
Getting Comfortable in the Niches: Reports from Publishers Working Their Verticals

Margo Baldwin is the co-founder, along with her husband Ian, and President and Publisher of Chelsea Green. The company, now 25 years old, is considered the preeminent publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. Margo has been active in calling for greener practices in the publishing industry, including getting rid of returns, and Chelsea Green is a founding member of the Green Press Initiative... Read More




Peter Balis 

John Wiley and Sons
Getting On the Virtual Shelves: Untangling and Understanding the eBook Supply Chain

Peter Balis is responsible for the sales, distribution and business development of digital content for Wiley. Additionally, he is the co-chair of the AAP’s Digital Issues Working Group.




Angela Bole 
BISG
Today’s eBook Consumer: A Look at First-Round Data from BISG’s On-Going Survey of Consumer Attitudes Toward eBook Reading

Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both digital and physical products.




Rich Caccappolo 
ORCA
Winning and Retaining Customers: What Publishers Can Learn From Social Gaming

Richard Caccappolo spent his career building and improving businesses by designing and implementing technology applications and optimizing operations. He has focused on the internet areas of content publishing, eCommerce, interactive and community features and digital monetization since 1999... Read More




Michael Cairns 
Information Media Partners
Teach Them to Fish: Empowering Authors to Market Themselves
Getting Comfortable in the Niches: Reports from Publishers Working Their Verticals

Michael Cairns is Managing Partner of Information Media Partners a business strategy consulting firm and he is currently serving as Entrepreneur in Residence at a start-up content business named Mywire.com. His career spans a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his years spent as a line-operating executive have largely been with brand name publishing companies such as Macmillan, Inc, Berlitz International and R.R. Bowker... Read More




Scott Chambers 
Sesame Workshop
The Next Generation of eBooks: Invent It or Witness It!

Scott Chambers is Senior Vice President, Worldwide Media Distribution for Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street and other educational programs for children. Chambers is responsible for supervising all aspects of the publishing, home video & audio businesses worldwide, domestic & international TV Sales, and digital media business development... Read More



Ryan Chapman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Get Noticed! How to Earn Attention for Every Book

Ryan Chapman has recently transitioned to Farrar, Straus and Giroux as Online Marketing Manager after a few years in Macmillan’s Online Marketing department. He’s privileged to have collaborated on digital campaigns for Thomas L. Friedman, Alex Ross and Naomi Klein... Read More




Devereux Chatillon 
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Tomorrow's Book Contract: New Language and Provisions to Reflect New Conditions

Devereux Chatillon is a media and commercial litigator in the Litigation Practice of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. During her career, Ms. Chatillon has worked in all facets of the media and entertainment industry, including most recently as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Scholastic Corporation, the global children's publishing, education and media company... Read More




Rachel Chou 
Open Road Integrated Media
Fundamentals of an Email List Management Strategy:
Capturing and Utilizing Today's Biggest Free Asset

Rachel Chou is the Chief Marketing Officer for Open Road Integrated Media. In this role she bridges the traditional world of book marketing with the dynamic, fast-paced world of digital media. Chou is guiding the development of the company's web marketing platform, which fuels Open Road's content syndication and publishing presence on the web and on mobile devices... Read More




Ginger Clark 
Curtis Brown Ltd.
eBook Pricing: What They Should Cost, and Why

Ginger Clark is a literary agent at Curtis Brown Ltd. She represents adult genre fiction (such as fantasy, SF and paranormal romance) and children's books (middle grade and young adult). In addition to representing her own clients, she also represents British rights for the entire agency’s children’s list... Read More




Peter Clifton 
Filedby
Teach Them to Fish: Empowering Authors to Market Themselves

Peter Clifton, the Founder, President and CEO of FiledBy, has more than 25 years experience in the publishing, media and technology industries. Most recently, Peter was President and CEO of several Ingram Book Group companies including Ingram International, Ingram Library Services, Ingram Periodicals and Tennessee Book Company. Prior to Ingram, he was the founding CEO of PubEasy.com, the book industry customer service and transaction portal... Read More




Roger Cooper 
Vanguard Press/The Perseus Books Group
Back-Loaded Book Deals: No (and Low) Advance Contracts, Profit-Sharing and Other Innovative Business Models

Roger Cooper started in book publishing as a clerk typist at Pyramid Books in 1968. He was editor and then Executive Editor at Bantam from 1971 to 1979; Editor in Chief of Berkley Books from 1979 to 1982; Publisher of Berkley Books from 1982 to 1993; VP and Publisher of the Mass Market Division of St. Martins Press from 1993 to 1995... Read More




Hillel Cooperman 
Jackson Fish Market
Synergizing the Book and Web: Books Plus in the 21st Century

Hillel Cooperman founded Jackson Fish Market with his two partners Walter Smith and Jenny Lam in late 2006. The team were all formerly of the Microsoft Corporation where Cooperman headed up the Windows User Interface team and applied for 14 patents on various user experience inventions. Since 2006, Jackson Fish Market, a bootstrapped startup, has shipped 7 separate applications for the web as well as a series of applications for the iPhone... Read More




Peter Costanzo 
Perseus Books Group
Get Noticed! How to Earn Attention for Every Book

Peter Costanzo began his online career by selling autographed books via the World Wide Web in 1996. In 1998 he was the Online Retail Marketing Manager for HarperCollins’ Online Sales department. In 2000 he worked at Random House as the Online Marketing Manager for the Audiobooks division and in 2001 became Director of Online Merchandising for Steve Brill's Contentville.com... Read More




Richard Curtis 
Richard Curtis Associates, Inc.
Tomorrow's Book Contract: New Language and Provisions to Reflect New Conditions

Richard Curtis, president of Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., is a leading New York literary agent; founder of E-Reads, an electronic book publisher; and a well-known author advocate. He is also the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction including several books about the publishing industry... Read More




Liza Daly 
Threepress Consulting
All About eBooks

Liza Daly is the president of Threepress Consulting and an experienced software engineer in digital publishing. In 2008 she developed Bookworm, one of the first open source epub readers, which is now hosted and sponsored by O'Reilly Media... Read More

 

Pablo Defendini 
Tor.com
How Publishers Can Build Their Own Communities: Using Social Media Tools

Pablo Defendini is the producer/showrunner of Tor.com, and a general rabble-rouser. He was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico (one of the most SFnal places on Earth). He worked in advertising and media production before becoming Mass Market Designer for Tor Books, from which he made the jump to his current position... Read More




Neil De Young 
Hachette Book Group
Getting On the Virtual Shelves: Untangling and Understanding the eBook Supply Chain

Neil De Young is responsible for managing the eBook program at large for the Hachette Book Group; overseeing the account management of the digital supply chain, developing enriched content, reviewing new business opportunities, and coordinating digital strategy R&D. In addition, he coordinates the development of HBGUSA.com with the various content, marketing, and IT stake holders within the company... Read More




Sara Domville 
F+W Media, Inc. 
Selling Direct to the Consumer: Risks and Rewards... What are Best Practices for Publishers?

Sara joined F+W in October 2005 as President of the Book Division responsible for North Light Books, Writers Digest Books, Adams Media, David & Charles, and Krause Books. Prior to this appointment she served as Managing Director of the David & Charles Group Limited including the extensive direct to consumer business, Readers Union Limited. With a background in sales, Sara has spent over 24 years in the publishing industry, serving at Reed Consumer Books, HarperCollins... Read More




Eleanor Elliott 
Harlequin
Fundamentals of an Email List Management Strategy:
Capturing and Utilizing Today's Biggest Free Asset

Eleanor Elliott is the Director of Digital Commerce for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. Eleanor has been working in the digital space for 14 years, the last 10 of which have been at Harlequin, and is responsible for the marketing and promotion of print and eBooks on eHarlequin.com.... Read More




Eric Freese 
Aptara
Optimizing eBooks: Cost-Effective Enhancements, Updates, and Multimedia Options

Eric Freese is a veteran of publishing production optimization. From the early days of SGML, he has worked in roles as varied as consultant, software developer, content architect and semantic web technologist in industries including technical publishing, defense, commercial software and legal publishing... Read More




Kelly Gallagher 
RR Bowker
Today’s eBook Consumer: A Look at First-Round Data from BISG’s On-Going Survey of Consumer Attitudes Toward eBook Reading

Kelly Gallagher serves as VP of Publishing Services at RR Bowker. In this role he manages the implementation of a host of Bowker business intelligence services, including a newly launched consumer research panel surveying over 30,000 consumers on media behaviors and purchasing trends. Prior to joining Bowker, Mr. Gallagher served as VP of Business Development at the Christian Publishers Association for six years... Read More




Noah Genner 
BookNet Canada
Digital Tools: How the Sales and Marketing Process is Changing

A product of independent bookselling, software and business development, with a weakness for techie-tools, Noah has found himself among like-minded people at BookNet Canada. His software and business development skills were honed at the consumer analytics firm Compusense, while his project management and leadership skills were further developed on software projects... Read More

 Ryan Chapman

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez 
F+W Media, Inc.
How Publishers Can Build Their Own Communities: Using Social Media Tools

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is the Director of Audience Development for Digital Book World; a published poet and writer; and an active blogger since 2003. In 1998, he founded and led a thriving poetry slam community in NYC (a little bit louder) that has since evolved into the non-profit literary arts organization, louderARTS... Read More




Raelene Gorlinsky 
Ellora's Cave
Ellora's Cave: A Case History of a Different Publishing Model

Raelene Gorlinsky spent twenty-five years in the computer information communication profession, as technical writer, editor and manager. She started editing part-time for Ellora’s Cave because it was an interesting variation from her day job in a computer department. It was a lot more fun to work on “He caressed her body with his gaze” than “Key in the serial number and press Enter.”... Read More




Robert Gottlieb 
Trident Media Group
eBook Challenges: Competing with Free and Getting the Timing Right

Robert Gottlieb was born and raised in New York City. After graduating in 1976 from Elmira College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he began his illustrious career in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency. In 1977, Mr. Gottlieb became a department assistant in WMA’s literary department and shortly thereafter began working with the head of the division, Owen Laster. Five years later he became a literary agent and discovered author Tom Clancy... Read More

 

Jennifer Hart 
HarperCollins
How Publishers Can Build Their Own Communities: Using Social Media Tools

Jennifer Hart is VP, Associate Publisher of the trade paperback imprints of HarperCollins Publishers -- Harper Perennial, Harper paperbacks and Avon Books -- and has worked with bestselling authors Garth Stein, Barbara Kingsolver and Ann Patchett, among many others. She started the blog Book Club Girl in 2007 as a way to promote great books for book clubs from all publishing houses... Read More




Ted Hill 
THA Consulting
Digital Tools: How the Sales and Marketing Process Is Changing
Selling Direct to the Consumer: Risks and Rewards... What are the Best Practices for Publishers?

With over 25 years experience in the publishing industry, Ted has launched dozens of new businesses and business initiatives. He has held business development positions at leading companies including Pearson, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Vista (now Publishing Technology), and About.com. As a business development consultant with deep knowledge of the publishing and information industries... Read More




Lisa Holton 
Fourth Story Media
Synergizing the Book and Web: Books Plus in the 21st Century

Lisa Holton founded Fourth Story Media in January 2008 to explore the intersection between traditional children's book publishing and digital media. Prior to launching the new media start-up, Holton was President, Scholastic Trade Publishing and Book Fairs. During her tenure at Scholastic, Holton managed the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling and initiated and oversaw development of The 39 Clues... Read More




Leslie Hulse 
HarperCollins
Getting On the Virtual Shelves: Untangling and Understanding the eBook Supply Chain

Leslie Hulse is Vice President, Digital Business Development for HarperCollins Publishers which is one of the largest English-language publishers in the world and a subsidiary of News Corporation. Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups around the world including in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and India, as well as a business development office in China. ... Read More




Rick Hunt 
SharedBook 
Selling Direct to the Consumer: Risks and Rewards... What are Best Practices for Publishers?

Rick Hunt joined SharedBook as Vice President, Marketing in November, 2005. Mr. Hunt brings over 20 years of consumer marketing experience to the company from roles of increasing responsibility in Packaged Goods, Publishing, Advertising, Entertainment, and Online Retailing... Read More




Brad Inman 

Vook
Optimizing eBooks: Cost-Effective Enhancements, Updates, and Multimedia Options

Bradley Inman is the founder of several successful companies including HomeGain, which he sold to Classified Ventures in 2005; the thriving online video company TurnHere; and Inman News, a real estate publishing company... Read More




Angela James 
Carina Press
New Business Models: Changing the Commercial Rules of Publishing

Executive editor of Carina Press, Harlequin's digital-only press, and veteran of the digital publishing industry, Angela James is a well-known advocate for digital publishing. James has enjoyed a long and varied publishing career that has included ownership of an independent editorial services business, work as a copy editor for electronic book and small press publisher, Ellora’s Cave... Read More




Samir Kakar 
Aptara
Leveling the Production Playing Field: Print, Web, eReaders, SmartPhones and Beyond!

As Chief Technology Officer, Samir Kakar is responsible for Aptara's technology vision, its Content Technology Solutions practice, and oversees the company's global IT infrastructure. Since joining in 1993, Samir has been instrumental in developing Aptara's technology portfolio technology and processes in support of key customers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Amazon, and Random House... Read More




Christina Katz 
Author
Teach Them to Fish: Empowering Authors to Market Themselves

Christina Katz is the author of Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform and Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids for Writer’s Digest Books. She has written hundreds of articles for national, regional, and online publications, presents at literary and publishing events around the country... Read More




Wendy Keller 
Keller Media, Inc.
The Changing Agent-Author Relationship: How It Will Affect the Business Model

In 1989, Ms. Keller envisioned ForthWrite Literary Agency, founded in integrity, honesty and compassion for the writer. She made a strong commitment to teach writers the invaluable skills of how to market and promote themselves and their message, not just get a mere book deal. "Getting the book deal is the easy part," Ms. Keller tells new writers. "The talent part is what you do before, during and after publication to turn it into your own empire."... Read More




Josh Koppel 
ScrollMotion
Optimizing eBooks: Cost-Effective Enhancements, Updates, and Multimedia Options

Josh believes digital should be fun and thinks all media experiences could be better and more productive. His extensive background in video, in print, and in mobile combined with his experiments in large-screen and small-screen media, are the basis for ScrollMotion’s innovative work... Read More




Miriam Kriss 
Irene Goodman Literary Agency 
Tomorrow's Book Contract: New Language and Provisions to Reflect New Conditions

Miriam Kriss joined the Irene Goodman Literary Agency just as she was finishing her master's degree in Fine Arts at New York University in early 2004, and quickly became one of the hottest young agents in town. Going from Michelangelo to Nora Roberts was not as great a leap as it might seem, as Miriam had been obsessively reading commercial fiction since she found a copy of Judith McNaught's classic Whitney, My Love in a rented lakeside cabin when she was thirteen... Read More




Kassia Krozser 
Booksquare
eBook Pricing: What They Should Cost, and Why

Kassia Krozser has seen the future and it is good: more people are reading and writing than ever before. She knows that, unlike the dinosaurs, smart people in the publishing business can adapt to changing economics and reader behavior... Read More




Jesse McDougall 
Catalyst Webworks
How Publishers Can Build Their Own Communities: Using Social Media Tools

Jesse is a social media consultant and web programming geek living in the woods of Vermont because he can't bring himself to leave the gardens and swimming holes. Currently, Jesse is co-owner of Catalyst Webworks—a web development and social media consulting firm in White River Junction, VT. Jesse travels the country teaching businesses... Read More




Andrew Malkin 
Zinio
Optimizing eBooks: Cost-Effective Enhancements, Updates, and Multimedia Options

Andrew Malkin is Vice President, Book Content, responsible for overseeing business development and digital strategy for Zinio’s book publisher content initiatives. This role includes identifying and collaborating with specialty and general trade and professional publishers globally on the aggregation, distribution and marketing of their traditional, illustrated or enhanced content. Partner publishers include McGraw-Hill, Thomas Nelson, Sourcebooks, F+W Media, Sterling, among others... Read More




Jack McKeown 
Verso Digital
Book-Buying Behavior in Vertical Channels: Results of Verso Ad Network's 2009 Consumer Book Survey

Jack McKeown is the former co-founder and CEO of the Perseus Books Group, and past president of the Adult Trade Group at HarperCollins. Currently he serves as Director of Business Development for Verso Digital, the first vertical ad network for book publishers, and as president of Conemarra Partners, a media consultancy.

 

Robert Miller 
HarperCollins
Back-Loaded Book Deals: No (and Low) Advance Contracts, Profit-Sharing and Other Innovative Business Models

In April 2008, Robert S. Miller joined HarperCollins Publishers as president of HarperStudio. This new division intends to address some of the more vexing issues facing the book industry today including author advances, returns, and online readership. The new unit will publish books in multiple physical and digital formats, combining best practices of trade publishing while leveraging internet-based strategies for sales, marketing and distribution purposes... Read More




Chris Morrow 
Northshire Books
New Business Models: Changing the Commercial Rules of Publishing

Chris Morrow, President of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, VT, is the beneficiary of nepotism and spends most of his time trying not to screw things up. The vagaries of the book business keep him busy. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and U of Michigan (Natural Resources)... Read More




Brian Napack 
Macmillan
Digital Book Piracy: It's Here. Let's Deal With It

Brian Napack is the President of Macmillan, a group of America’s leading book and educational publishing companies. Macmillan’s operations in the US include St. Martin’s Press, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Henry Holt, Picador, Tor, Macmillan Audio, Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishers, i>clicker, and Hayden McNeil... Read More




Mary Ann Naples 
The Creative Culture
Back-Loaded Book Deals: No (and Low) Advance Contracts, Profit-Sharing and Other Innovative Business Models

Mary Ann Naples is the co-owner with Debra Goldstein of The Creative Culture, Inc., a boutique literary agency they founded in 1998, and have since expanded to include literary agents Laura Nolan, Matthew Elblonk, and Karen Gerwin. The agency is known for its emphasis on lifestyle books and strong, branded nonfiction as well as a small list of quality fiction... Read More




Diane Naughton 
HarperCollins Children's Books
Digital Content and Marketing for the Born Digital Generation: What Juvie and Young Adult Publishers are Doing in the New Marketplace

Since joining HarperCollins Children's Books seven years ago, Diane has experienced the shifting of marketing emphasis and dollars from offline to online programs. She spent the last year and a half re-directing responsibilities as well as budgets to reflect the huge online growth including the kid, teen, parent and educator communities... Read More




Alison Norrington 
Bestselling Author
Synergizing the Book and Web: Books Plus in the 21st Century

Bestselling chick-lit novelist and practice-based PhD researcher, Alison is studying the concept of "story" and ways to fragment and channel narratives across a series of platforms and media, focussing on Emerging Platforms for Writers, Fragmented Interaction & Pervasive Media. She is writing a romcom "digi novel"—a transmedia print, video, web, gps and gaming story that interconnects whilst also standing alone... Read More




Chad Phelps 
F+W Media, Inc.
Fundamentals of an Email List Management Strategy:
Capturing and Utilizing Today's Biggest Free Asset
As Executive Vice President, Phelps sets the strategic direction for the Company's entire emedia division, including development, content sales, SEO, SEM, web/e-newsletter/direct marketing integration, and eCommerce. Under his direction, eCommerce for the Company has grown to 20 vertical ecommerce stores, generating revenue growth of more than 140% in the prior 12-month period.... Read More




Eoin Purcell 
Green Lamp Media
New Business Models: Changing the Commercial Rules of Publishing

Eoin Purcell lives and works in Dublin, Ireland where he runs Green Lamp Media, a publishing, publishing services and content company. Green Lamp works with authors and publishers and will begin publishing eBooks and pbooks in 2010. He was formerly commissioning editor with one of Ireland's oldest independent publishers Mercier Press.... Read More




Dominique Raccah 
Sourcebooks, Inc.
PoetrySpeaks.com: 90 Days In

Dominique Raccah is the publisher of Sourcebooks, the company she founded in 1987. From that small start, Raccah has directed a continuously growing entrepreneurial creative organization that morphed into a general trade house which happily produces everything from bestsellers in fiction, children’s books and poetry, to number one titles in both baby names and college guides, eleven New York Times Bestsellers and more than twenty national bestsellers... Read More




Kate Rados 
Chelsea Green Publishing
Get Noticed! How to Earn Attention for Every Book

Kate Rados created Sterling Publishing’s digital presence by rolling up her sleeves to implement their eBook program, executing the relaunch of multiple business and consumer websites, defining their digital marketing strategy, and effectively taking a traditional publishing house into the digital age... Read More




Steve Ross 
Formerly of Harpercollins, Random House, Delacorte Press,
Putnam's Sons and John Wiley & Sons
eBook Challenges: Competing with Free and Getting the Timing Right

Steve Ross has edited or overseen the publication of hundreds of New York Times Bestsellers, working with public figures ranging from Barack Obama and Arianna Huffington to Derek Jeter and Michael Jordan to Joni Mitchell and Gene Simmons; and a range of writers from Erik Larson, Michael Cunningham and James McPherson to Dave Barry, Christopher Buckley and Roy Blount, Jr. He has been President and Group Publisher of the Collins Division at HarperCollins... Read More




John Rubin 
Above the Treeline, LLC
Digital Tools: How the Sales and Marketing Process is Changing

John Rubin is the founder and current President and CEO of Above the Treeline, LLC. John founded in Above the Treeline in 2001 after spending 10 years as a strategy consultant for A.T. Kearney, Inc. He holds a Masters in Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University... Read More




Mitch Rubin 
Applied Information Group
Fundamentals of an Email List Management Strategy:
Capturing and Utilizing Today’s Most Cost-Effective Asset

Mitch Rubin Applied Information Group Mitch Rubin is the President and founder of Applied Information Group, which specializes in email marketing services and database development. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in direct marketing, email marketing, database and software development... Read More




Will Schwalbe 
Cookstr.com
Synergizing the Book and Web: Books Plus in the 21st Century

Will Schwalbe is the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com, a recipe website that brings together recipes from the world's great chefs and cookbook authors. The site features recipes from hundreds of chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Julia Child, and Tony Bourdain, to name just a few. Cookstr was nominated for two Webby Awards and received a Webby honor... Read More




Matt Schwartz

Random House Publishing Group
Teach Them to Fish: Empowering Authors to Market Themselves

Matt Schwartz is the director of digital strategy and business development for Random House Publishing Group. He has spent more than 12 years working in the publishing industry with a focus on e-commerce, online merchandising, and online marketing, both viral and traditional. In addition to having been editorial director for BarnesandNoble.com and director of online marketing for Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing... Read More




Lorraine Shanley 
Market Partners International
Back-Loaded Book Deals: No (and Low) Advance Contracts, Profit-Sharing and Other Innovative Business Models
Synergizing the Book and Web: Books Plus in the 21st Century

Lorraine Shanley is a noted authority and expert in all aspects of traditional and digital book publishing in the US and internationally. A principal of Market Partners International (MPI), a consulting firm she co-founded in 1990 to cater to the rapidly changing needs of the book publishing business, she has experience and expertise in strategic planning, market research, content development, multi-channel marketing, sales and fulfillment, and executive search... Read More




Sameer Shariff 
Impelsys, Inc.
The Next Generation of eBooks: Invent It or Witness It!

Sameer Shariff is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for turning ideas into real businesses. As the founder and CEO of Impelsys Inc., Sameer drives Impelsys' business vision, strategy, value and growth. Impelsys is his second start up and he has grown the company into a leader in online content delivery for the global publishing market... Read More



Ira Silverberg 
Sterling Lord
Back-Loaded Book Deals: No (and Low) Advance Contracts, Profit-Sharing and Other Innovative Business Models

Ira Silverberg joined SLL in 2008. He has worked in publishing since 1984 and has held various positions including Editor-in-Chief of Grove Press and Publisher of Serpent’s Tail/High Risk Books. He began agenting in 1998 and represents, among others, New York Times best-sellers Neil Strauss, Erica Kennedy, and Ishmael Beah; National Book Award Nominees Adam Haslett...Read More




Rebecca Smart 
Osprey Publishing
Getting Comfortable in the Niches: Reports from Publishers Working Their Verticals

Rebecca Smart is President and Managing Director of Osprey Publishing, the largest specialist military history publisher in the world. After 40 years in business, Osprey has a strong brand among military history enthusiasts and is known for its collectable, illustrated works covering ancient times to the modern day... Read More




Debbie Stier 

HarperCollins
Get Noticed! How to Earn Attention for Every Book

Debbie Stier currently has two roles at HarperCollins: Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher for HarperStudio and Director of Digital Marketing for the rest of HarperCollins. Her duties at HarperStudio range from assessing and acquiring projects, to devising and executing marketing plans, as well as making sure the trains are all running smoothly with the sales, art and production departments... Read More





Mindy Stockfield 
Hyperion Books
eBook Challenges: Competing with Free and Getting the Timing Right

As Vice President, Marketing and Digital Media for Hyperion, Mindy Stockfield is responsible for the overall marketing and promotion of Hyperion and Voice imprint titles. In addition, she oversees the digital media direction for Hyperion, which includes driving new platform development and outreach utilizing web, mobile, and emerging technologies. She also manages partnership opportunities for Hyperion... Read More




Michael Tamblyn 
Kobo
eBook Pricing: What They Should Cost, and Why
eBook Challenges: Competing with Free and Getting the Timing Right

From a start in independent bookselling as a magazine and small press buyer, in 1996 he co-founded Bookshelf.ca, one of Canada’s first online bookstores, in partnership with Bell Sympatico. Indigo Books & Music purchased Bookshelf.ca in 1998, and Michael moved to the chain as vice-president of online operations... Read More




Cecilia Tan 
Circlet Press 
Teach Them to Fish: Empowering Authors to Market Themselves

Cecilia Tan writes about her many passions, from erotic fantasy to baseball, from her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the founder of Circlet Press, Inc. in 1992, she was a pioneer in the realm of independent publishing in the 90s, and after surviving the bankruptcies of more than once distributor, the returns crisis, and the stranglehold of Barnes & Noble/Borders on the print book business, has remade Circlet Press into a Web 2.0 and eBook publishing concern. Her writing career has followed the same path... Read More

Maja Thomas 
Hachette Book Group
Optimizing eBooks: Cost-Effective Enhancements, Updates, and Multimedia Options

Maja Thomas is Senior Vice President, Hachette Digital for Hachette Book Group in the US, and Vice President, Digital Publishing for Hachette Group Livre, headquartered in Paris. She heads Hachette Digital and works across divisions on digital strategy, investment, and the pursuit of new digital publishing businesses. She has been the co-chair of the Digital Working Group at the Association of American Publishers, and chair of Hachette Livre’s International Board for Digital Issues... Read More




Tom Thompson 
Verso Digital
Book-Buying Behavior in Vertical Channels: Results of Verso Ad Network's 2009 Consumer Book Survey

Tom Thompson is VP, Group Director, Verso Digital. With 15 years experience in online, print, broadcast, and outdoor advertising, he has worked on campaigns for every major publishing company as well as several small to mid-size publishers... Read More




Reid Tracy 
Hay House, Inc.
Getting Comfortable in the Niches:
Reports from Publishers Working Their Verticals

Reid Tracy is currently president and CEO of Hay House, Inc., the largest and most influential self-empowerment publishing company in the world, headquartered in Carlsbad, California. He has worked for the company for 21 years, and was instrumental in helping founder Louise L. Hay build Hay House from a small publisher with just three books into the powerhouse it is today. Acquiring hundreds of prominent authors over the years, Reid has played a crucial role in the strategic development... Read More




Kamalpreet Virdi
Aequor
IT Co-Sourcing: An Innovative Approach at a Leading Publishing House

Kamalpreet S. Virdi, is a partner, Board member and President for Aequor Group of Companies. Kamal worked in the corporate environment in a technical field for few years with companies like Embassy CES & Home Box Office (HBO), at the start of his career. A graduate of Rutgers University with a B.S. in Biochemistry, he pursued and graduated with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey... Read More




Steve Walker
SBS Worldwide
The Cash Cow That Isn't Milked!

Steve Walker has spend over 35 years working in the freight industry, and in starting SBS Worldwide in 1983 has seen the company grow on three continents. Over the last 5 years his personal focus has been on developing the company’s strength in shipping books around the world... Read More




Scott Waxman 
Waxman Literary Agency
The Changing Agent-Author Relationship: How It Will Affect the Business Model

Scott Waxman runs the Waxman Literary Agency, a mid-sized agency with a roster of more than 200 authors, including many national bestsellers in a variety of fiction and non-fiction categories. Scott founded the agency in 1997 and has since expanded the company to include literary agents Farley Chase, Holly Root and Byrd Leavell... Read More




Andrew Weinstein 
Ingram Digital
Getting On the Virtual Shelves: Untangling and Understanding the eBook Supply Chain

Andrew Weinstein joined Ingram Digital Ventures, the predecessor company to Ingram Digital, in September 2005. Previously, he spent five years at Lightning Source Inc., most recently as Vice President of Channel and Publisher Development. In that role he had responsibility for all aspects of Lightning Source's e-book business. In addition, he managed the business development and operational relationships for Lightning Source's key print-on-demand distribution customers, including Amazon, B&N, Ingram Book Group, NACSCORP and Baker & Taylor... Read More
 

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