Tools of Change for Publishing

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This year’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC) is titled Change/Forward/Fast. From their website:

O’Reilly’s TOC Conference is where the publishing and tech industries converge, as practitioners and executives from both camps share what they’ve learned from their successes and failures, explore ideas, and join together to navigate publishing’s ongoing transformation. TOC 2012 delivers a deft mix of the practical and the visionary to give attendees the tools and guidance they need to succeed—and the inspiration to lead change.

Expect coverage that’s both deep and wide, with a range of practical, in-depth sessions that cover the innovations rocking every aspect of the art, craft, and business of publishing in the 21st century. Create your own path through the conference, from exploring the design and implementation of profitable business models to the advanced technical aspects of creating digital books, agile publishing, and fostering collaborative environments that help ideas (and careers) to thrive.

Tickets:
$2045 for an All Access Pass
$1295 for a Conference Only Pass

For more information, visit the TOC website.
Pricing and Registration.

You can also follow the twitter hastag #toccon.

Giller Light Bash Vancouver

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The Scotiabank Giller Light Bash is a chance for people to come together to celebrate Canadian literature and raise money for Frontier College, Canada’s original literacy organization.

Vancouver’s first Giller Light Bash is being hosted by VIWF’s Hal Wake and local poet, actor and former Duthie Books bookseller, Dina Del Bucchia. There will be a live digital broadcast of the Giller award ceremony from Toronto, cocktails, door prizes, music and dancing. There will also be a shortened version of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series where amazing local writers will share their work.

Tickets are $25. Buy them here.

For more details visit the Giller Light Bash Vancouver website.

eBOUND Digital Workshop West

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eBOUND Canada’s Digital Workshop West is their second workshop in Vancouver to help develop your in-house ebook production skills. From their website:

Our hands-on digital workshop on November 1 & 2 will feature all-new content, including workshops on how to make fixed-layout and read-along EPUBs for tablets, and how to use tools like GREP and RegEx to improve your efficiency and support your efforts to produce beautiful, bespoke ebooks in house at a fraction of the time. BookNet will cover ebook specific metadata from production through distribution, and we’ll talk about how to find the balance between the digital workflow ideal, and what we can do with the tools and time we have right now.

The cost is $250 for eBOUND members, and $300 for the public. Travel and accomodation subsidies are available for members coming from outside Vancouver.

Access the registration form.

For more information, visit the eBOUND Canada website.

Tech Forum West

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BNC’s Tech Forum West 2011, Reboot the Book, focuses on redesigning an enhanced book. From the website:

Tech Forum West is a one-day conference for book industry professionals to discuss the successes and challenges of enhancing books. Apps and enhancements affect the entire supply chain, from acquisition to sales. So this day will cover the entire spectrum: we’ll talk about which enhancements are working, how the promotion of an enhanced book changes, and how sales reps and retailers can utilize apps and social media platforms to increase sales and retain customers.

Tickets: $100
Early Bird Tickets: $75 until Sept. 16, 2011

ABPBC members can register at a special rate. Contact ABPBC for details.

For more information, check out the Program.

Register here.

Marketing Through Social Media

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Taught by Haig Armen of LiFT Studios and Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting, this workshop will teach you how to use social media to engage more directly with your customers. From the SFU Publishing website:

The new model of web communication is a dialogue rather than a monologue. Successful public relations in this new era focus on listening and facilitating conversations between companies and their market communities.

Through case studies and group activities we will go behind the scenes of both company and product and follow the thread from conceptual development to market implementation, learning from the successes and challenges each company has experienced.

Topics include commonly used social networking features, a survey of the content management systems that make social media possible, and how to encourage the exchange of user-generated content about your brand or product.

The cost of the workshop is $225. 

Download the registration form.

For more information, visit the SFU Publishing website.

Digital Rebuild - Overhaul Your Digital Strategy

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This 2 day workshop will help you develop a viable digital publishing strategy. From the SFU Summer Publishing Workshop website:

We will help you figure what “viable” means in the context of your business, whether that viability is financial, relating to revenue and sales, or operational, relating to greater efficiencies in your publishing processes and lifecycles. We will work together to draw out your business strategy, tear it down, and rebuild it for the digital world.

Based on what we’ve uncovered during the rebuild, we’ll introduce you to some tools and techniques that will put your plans into action and keep them running smoothly.

The workshop is taught by Haig Armen of LiFT Studios, John Maxwell from SFU’s Master of Publishing Program and Kevin Shoesmith from Factory Interactive

Cost: $450
Download the registration form.
Visit the SFU Summer Publishing Workshop website for more information.

New Business Models in Book Publishing

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A part of the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops, spend an evening with two of the most interesting people in publishing, Dominique Raccah and Richard Nash.

From the Canada Arts Connect website:

The publishing industry is evolving at a rapid pace. Learn how both Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks) and Richard Nash (Cursor and Red Lemonade) have not only embraced this change, but have utilized it to create cutting-edge solutions. From developing digital partnerships to destroying the traditional notion of gate-keeping, these speakers are will make you reconsider everything that you thought you knew about the publishing industry.

Tickets are $10 at the door. Seating is limited, to reserve call 778-782-5241 or 778-782-5229 or email pubworks@sfu.ca

For more information, visit Canada Arts Connect.

London Book Fair

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From the website:

The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels.Taking place every spring in the world’s premier publishing and cultural capital, it’s a unique opportunity to explore, understand and capitalise on the innovations shaping the publishing world of the future.

Register here.

Publishing Business Conference & Expo

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From the website:

The Publishing Business Conference & Expo is the nation’s largest event for book and magazine publishing executives. The leading-edge program addresses pressing issues facing book and magazine publishing executives today. As an attendee, you will walk away with strategies, tips and tactics to help you and your company thrive.

Full Registration is $1175. Buy a full conference pass before March 31 and it includes a free iPad.

Register here.

BNC Technology Forum 2011

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This year’s Technology Forum is titled Implementing Digital: Putting the Plan into Practice. From their website:

We’ve all had our digital debuts.
Now’s the time to become digital sophisticates.

The BNC Technology Forum 2011 will showcase experts and visionaries from the international publishing and bookselling scene whose practical insights on the digital space will empower us to embrace technology, refine our approaches and get the results we need. Join hundreds of book industry professionals from across Canada for an invaluable opportunity to learn, interact, debate, network and glimpse the future of our industry.

Cost: Early Bird Tickets are $125; after January 14th tickets are $150

This year’s themes include:

• Know the Reader
• Measure Success
• Expand Across Platforms
• Refine Approaches

Here’s the list of speakers (Monique’s one of them!)

Register here.

Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2011

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This year’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC) is titled Publishing Without Boundaries From their website:

Today’s publishing world is a diverse and multifaceted content-sharing world. It’s a world where digital and analog and everything in between co-exist, blurring the lines and defying boundaries. It’s a world where the roles of consumers and creators refuse to be rigidly defined. It’s a world where formerly passive readers are demanding to read what, how, when, and where they choose. Above all, for anyone who is passionate about the business of publishing and reading, it’s a world where the challenges and opportunities are at once exhilarating and daunting.

We’ll explore this new world of “Publishing Without Boundaries” at the fifth annual O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, happening February 14-16, 2011 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. This premiere event provides an unparalleled opportunity for stakeholders from across the book publishing and tech industries to network, share ideas, engage in lively debate, and consider the many issues we face individually and collectively.

TOC is soldout but you can watch the TOC keynotes livestreamed on Feb 15 and 16 on the TOC website.

Follow the twitter hastag #toccon.

BookCamp Vancouver 2010

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Now in its 2nd year, BookCamp Vancouver is an annual unconference that brings publishers, educators, community builders and the tech community together - for free! - to explore the future of books and book-like technologies.

Join us on October 1 at SFU Harbourcentre for a day of talking and doing. We’ll discuss digital publishing, digital reading experiences, the Book’s evolving role and how publishers can leverage themselves for success in the digital age.

We want to bring together technologists, book publishers, marketers, writers, librarians, media, and anyone else interested in reading, writing, publishing and gadget geekery.

Register here.

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For up to date information, visit the BookCamp Vancouver wiki.

Digital Strategy: Editors’ Intensive

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A part of SFU’s Summer Publishing Workshops, Digital Strategy: Editors’ Intensive is a four-day intensive workshop. Participants will work collaboratively to conceive and develop editorial strategy, decision-making, and process organization. Lectures will cover strategies, tactics, techniques, and tools for streamlining the publishing process.

August 6th to 9th
9am to 6pm
$600 CDN

Apply for this workshop.

Marketing Through Social Media

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A part of SFU’s Summer Publishing Workshops, Marketing through Social Media will teach strategies to leverage social media to market brands and products.  Topics include commonly used social networking features, a survey of the content management systems that make social media possible, and how to encourage the exchange of user-generated content about your brand or product.

July 11
9am to 5pm
$225 CDN

Register for this workshop.

CanWrite! 2010 Conference: Applying Technology to Your Writing

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Harbour Towers Hotel
345 Quebec St
Victoria, BC
June 24-27, 2010
Each year, Canadian Authors Association holds a national CanWrite! Conference, and this year’s conference is being held in Victoria, BC.

Tickets for CAA Members are $325 for the full conference. Get more information on rates or download a list of free events for the public (PDF).

BookCamp Toronto

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University of Toronto iSchool
140 St George St
Toronto
May 15,  9am - 5pm

Now in it’s second year, BookCamp Toronto’s 2010 theme is “Book Publishing Is Going Digital, Now What?” Tickets are free. Unfortunately, the event is already sold out but you can add yourself to the wait list.