Books in Browsers 2012 - collection of tweets

johntaube @johntaube

Great innovation at #bib12 in book delivery and (un) pkging but library issue of desirable content unresolved.

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45m ronmartinez @ronmartinez

Thanks to the #BiB12 speakers who participated in the realtime publishing experiment. View on web, or save to iBooks.http://aerbook.com/maker/webview.html?book_id=932&page_id=10375 …

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47m Peter Brantley @naypinya

my wife *and* kid are going into the city's Obama headquarters to do last weekend reporting, analytical support, while dadrecovers #bib12

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2h Liz Castro @lizcastro

Luxurious ride to DFW on AA with three seats to myself. Stretched out and slept the whole four hours. #BIB12 was brilliant andexhausting.

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@ronmartinez You all are doing some really interesting work. And it was so nice to see your waterfront! #bib12

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2h ronmartinez @ronmartinez

@Hadrien In the U.S., other territories soon to follow. E.g., text 'bib' to (415) 800-3815 for the #BiB12 book (made in realtime).




You see where we're going. “@Hadrien: You should be able to walk into a book store, buy an ebook and get a link as a SMS toload it #bib12”

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3h Rachel Z Cornell @ProNagger

@indiamos @booksquare IF any developer wants to watch me try and use their product, I'm in! #BiB12



3h Jack W Perry @38 enso

.@naypinya : thanks for the #bib12 tweets. Not able to attend but can see its a major show. Lots of value just following on twitter.



3h Peter Brantley @naypinya

catalonia and sun @lizcastro not a full fledged #bib12 in barcelona, but maybe something. might be in the works. wait for it ... :)

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thanks to everyone for BiB12! and engaging in a conversation about a new vision for publishing and storytelling. #bib12

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3h 薄墨　桜 @usuzumisakura

.@kzakza さんの「Books in Browsers 2012 その１(開始前、1日目と2日目)#bib12」をお気に入りにしました。



http://togetter.com/li/396239

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4h kazuhiro ando（かざかざ） @kzakza

Books in Browsers 2012 #bib12 をまとめました。開始前と1日目～2日目 http://togetter.com/li/396239 , 2日目終了直後から3日目 http://togetter.com/li/397137



5h Adam Gardefjord @gardefjord

What I could tell so far from #bib12 is that the bookindustry will look very different five years from now. Big players, watch out!

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7h Eoin Noble @eoinnoble

Catching up on #BiB12, never really considered what a stroke of genius the 'Send to @Readmill' button is, solving a real D2Cpain point.

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9h Rachel Oakes @RachelIndexer

Catching up on tweets from #pubwest (thanks @ryanindexing), #bib12, and #EFAChat this morning. Now, time to get back to#indexing.

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10h Pablo Defendini @pablod

I made a conscious decision at the beginning of the year: “No conferences this year, except for #bib12.” Glad I stuck toit—indispensable.

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+1 “@agwieckowski: The phrase "greatest minds of our generation" keeps bubbling up. Thank you @naypinya @KatMeyer!#bib12”

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10h Ania Wieckowski @agwieckowski

The phrase "greatest minds of our generation" keeps bubbling up. Thank you @naypinya @KatMeyer! #bib12

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10h Justo Hidalgo @justohidalgo

best quote ever ;)“@liza: #bib12: A conference I would _voluntarily attend_. (many thanks to @naypinya, @KatMeyer &conference team.)”

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10h Liza Daly @liza

#bib12: A conference I would _voluntarily attend_. (So many thanks to @naypinya, @KatMeyer & entire conference team.)



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10h Liza Daly @liza

YES. MT @gimsieke: We’ve changed our motto, revering @booksquare’s epic slide. http://www.le-tex.de/en/index.html #bib12#qaulity

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10h common style @commonstyle

.@kzakza さんの「Books in Browsers 2012 at the Internet Archive #bib12」をお気に入りにしました。 http://togetter.com/li/396239



11h Jean-Philippe Pastor @jppastor

“@belinlib: Chimie Terminale S Livre du prof http://dlvr.it/2NPWp7 ” #ecoter #bib12 #textbook #ebook

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11h coreycaitlin @coreycaitlin

All the lovely folks from #bib12 — thankyouthankyouthankyou for a lovely, inspiring, humbling, welcoming few days.

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12h Isabelle Aveline @_zazieweb

WoW ^^ @Hadrien: A European BiB ? Where would that be organized ? #bib12

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12h Sameer Verma @sameerverma

Thx @naypinya for letting me present the Bookberry Pi. It's running at the Archive right now. Will push the distro out next week.#BiB12

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Thx @naypinya @brewster_kahle @rajbot and @internetarchive gang for an awesome #BiB12

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12h OwnShelf @OwnShelf

I am new to the ebooks biz, and #BiB12 was a fantastic crash course. Thanks to the speakers and live tweeters.

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13h Thomas Minkus @tminkus

Returned from a very inspiring #bib12 Thank you @naypinya for putting together an awesome lineup of speakers. Will be backfor #bib13





15h Tim McCormick @tmccormick

thank you #bib12 organizers @naypinya @KatMeyer @jwikert, host @internetarchive @brewster_kahle, presenters & staff.2012 top event for me

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15h Booktrack @Booktrk

RT @tac_niso @indiamos: Books and games both are fundamentally pedagogic tools. -Simon Fox #bib12 Agreed, it's a bit liketheory vs practice

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15h Andrew Sealy-Bell @andrewreadcloud

Tweet your in-book annotations live as you read with the ReadCloud eReader #BiB12 - for iOS, Android & Windowshttp://readcloud.com

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15h Andrew Sealy-Bell @andrewreadcloud

Share your thoughts as you read with the ReadCloud eReading software http://readcloud.com #BiB12

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16h Andrew Savikas @andrewsavikas

@liza ebooks are not nearly as absorbent as print books #bib12




RT @arhomberg: Why is an ebook ever riddled with typos? http://vrge.co/Tkul9T via @tcarmody #bib12



16h Porter Anderson @Porter_Anderson

Prefect. MT @gimsieke: We’ve changed our motto, revering @booksquare’s epic slide. http://www.le-tex.de/en/index.html #bib12 #qaulity /cc @abdelazer

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Is there a preso for next year in this? MT @kirkbiglione: You’ve all learned a lesson about jumping into a strange stretch limo.#bib12.

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17h Top webtech @top_webtech

Top popular tags webtech: 1^ #Sandy 2^ #windows8 3^ #ghconf 4^ #Frankenstorm 5^ #bib12 http://webtech.twirus.com

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@LeMonde_Techno writeup of day one #bib12, with mise en lumière for @kinwong, @hughmcguire, others.http://lafeuille.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/10/25/des-livres-aux-navigateurs-des-liens-pour-faire-des-ponts/ …

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17h Kirk Biglione @kirkbiglione

I hope you’ve all learned a valuable lesson about jumping into a strange stretch limo. #bib12.

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@jmaxsfu Would say more that it assumes pagination, but in principle, yes. Allows for dynamic, scrollable elements, though.#bib12



18h Gerrit Imsieke @gimsieke

We’ve changed our Web site’s motto, revering @booksquare’s epic slide. http://www.le-tex.de/en/index.html #bib12 #qaulity/cc @abdelazer

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RT @nimblebooks @lz: Platform to write & publish print/digital books: Booktype http://ow.ly/eO5P2 #BiB12

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18h Say Books @saybooks

Precisely!! MT @anna_cn: Great talk from @booksquare at #bib12: it's all about readers, and what they want, and how variedthat can be.

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18h Mike Cane @mikecane

I have just ONE question for all the #bib12 people: How much of your shit runs on touchscreen tablets?

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18h Jellybooks Ltd. @Jellybooks

Strange thing about #BiB12 ? First you do a full working day 8-5 then a full conference day 5-1 - lack of sleep

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18h karl dubost @karlpro

I would love a European Bib in Tokyo #bib12 #dada :)

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18h Liana Holmberg @lianaholmberg

Post #BiB12 treat: Catch 38 Geary to Ocean Beach & sketch your next big idea in the sand. Sunset's going to be gorgeous.

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18h Todd Carpenter @TAC_NISO

Someone needs to provide the little people a beverage #bib12

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18h Sebastian Posth @sposth

@naypinya Thanks you so much! #bib12

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18h Hadrien Gardeur @Hadrien

A European BiB? Where would that be organized? #bib12

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18h alastair horne @pressfuturist

Now that *would* be good news! RT: @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @Naypinya and @katmeyer note there's a suggestion of aBiB in Europe next year.



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Post #bib12 beer before a red-eye anyone?

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18h Mike Simmons @simmons_m

live stream of #bib12 was great. look forward to the recorded sessions nice to see the relation between publishing, learning, &gaming

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Well done everyone here at #bib12 and all the speakers and organizers. So much going on, so many great ideas.

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18h ramblingjane @ramblingjane

So much brain candy from #BiB12 to process. Thank you, speakers, IA, organizers, fellow attendees!

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18h NYC Trending @nycTrend

How do you get ebooks into brick and mortar stores? http://bit.ly/Xwihnk Gift cards. #bib12

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#bib12 I want all of you guys here in Berlin. Would loooove it!

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18h ana @atelier7_ana

Thank you! @naypinya @KatMeyer #bib12 Thanks everyone.

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#BiB12 @Naypinya and @katmeyer Big thanks to speakers and attendees, and we're done here with Books in Browsers. Thanks,everyone!

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18h Martha Rotter @martharotter

Yay, possible European Books in Browsers next spring! #BiB12

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+1 “@sposth: #bib12 BERLIN!”

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18h Bilbary @bilbary

#BiB12 fin.

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Looking forward to taking #bib on the road next year, maybe.... #bib12

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#BiB12 @Naypinya and @katmeyer note that there's a suggestion of a BiB in Europe (good idea) + a hackathon for next year.

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18h Meagan Timney @mbtimney

Thank you to all of the incredibly talented, inspiring, and amazing people at #bib12! Especially @naypinya and @KatMeyer.Had a blast!



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18h ljndawson @ljndawson

ME TOO. RT @TAC_NISO: Will do this again next year.... Already looking forward to #bib13 #bib12

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#bib12 BERLIN!

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Will do this again next year.... Already looking forward to #bib13 #bib12

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@brewster_kahle Thanks! #bib12

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#BiB12 @Naypinya and @katmeyer are thanking everyone, including @Brewster_Kahle of the @InternetArchive &sponsors.

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And they get a cut! RT @ftoolan: sales in bookstores of @Enthrill gift cards are 3X that of the grocery channel@FRANCOMEDIA #bib12

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Bring on the caffeine impromptu hack-a-thon #bib12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA More about @EnthrillBooks and the PackaDRM system is in #Writing on the #Ether here:http://ow.ly/eOaJz

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Absolutely! RT @TAC_NISO: +1 RT @ljndawson: @naypinya IS amazingly talented. #bib12 => As is the wonderful@KatMeyer

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18h Patty Hartwell @Pishba

. @2ysur2ysub How do you get ebooks into brick and mortar stores? Gift cards. http://www.enthrillbooks.com/ #bib12 via@jenny8lee

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18h Erin McKean @emckean

The most Canadian slide of #BIB12, from @francomedia: pic.twitter.com/rtKmVqlc

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA Lots of scaling to come in the next year.

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+1 RT @ljndawson: @naypinya IS amazingly talented. #bib12 => As is the wonderful @KatMeyer

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Thank you, eh. @francomedia #bib12 #cdn =>Sorry mis-typed handle



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+1 RT @ljndawson: @naypinya IS amazingly talented. #bib12

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@naypinya IS amazingly talented. #bib12

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Thank you, eh. @frankomedia #bib12 #cdn

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA looks for moves into international markets including the US in the coming year for@EnthrillBooks

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18h Fran Toolan @ftoolan

sales in bookstores of @enthrill gift cards are 3X that of the grocery channel @FRANCOMEDIA #bib12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA #Bookstores outsold mass channel and grocery stores three times. (Not unexpected.)

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18h Владимир Харитонов @v_x

Открытка старику @falanster — http://www.enthrill.com/edistribution/ebook-distribution … - продажа открыток/ваучеров наэлектронные книжки в книжных магазинах #BiB12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA In traditional bookstores, distribution puts fiction at 22%, sales as %-age of dist., shows lessnonfiction focus.

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“@pressfuturist: I really can’t imagine plumbers have conferences where they liken what they do to metadata… #bib12”chuckle.

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18h Lance Ellisor @LanceEllisor

This has been tried before by Symtio/HarperCollins. See http://www.christianretailing.com/index.php/newsletter/latest/21560-zondervan-suspends-sells-symtio-e-book-program … I wish @francomedia luck this time! #bib12

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18h Susan Doerr @susanmpls

.@francomedia shows a picture of Enthrill's in-store display location in a grocery store which is between paper books anddiapers. #bib12

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18h Jana Faust @jfaustus

“@ljndawson: They just don't KNOW they do. #bib12” EXACTLY

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA Sales as percentage of distribution shows nonfiction very strong in the gifting model of@EntrhillBooks.

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18h Andrew Rhomberg @arhomberg

Nonfiction does very well for digital gifting #BiB12

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I really can’t imagine plumbers have conferences where they liken what they do to metadata… #bib12

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@arhomberg But voucher/gift cards also aid discoverability. #bib12




#BiB12 ebook gift card displays between books and diapers - so is there a correlation - people with young children read more?

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA The grocery channel (@Safeway) distribution by genre: 33% fiction. Sales 25% fiction, 23%nonfiction.

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I think Enthrill's book cards are absolutely brilliant. Getting ebooks into bricks and mortar stores. #bib12

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However Ebook voucher/gift cars mostly serve gift/present market #BiB12

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Spend time with vision-impaired readers, it will change your perspective -@booksquare Yes-see how much of your book/app isaccessible #bib12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA The redemption model prediction is 87% overall.

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19h Kate Pullinger @katepullinger

@FRANCOMEDIA Enthrill title specific ebook gift cards - such a great idea. #bib12






#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA @EnthrillBooks sees 39% redemption after five months, 15% on same day as purchase (suggestsimpulse buys for self).

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Nook is not in top 10 EReaders in Canada #BiB12

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19h Plympton @plympton

How do you get ebooks into brick and mortar stores? Gift cards! http://www.enthrillbooks.com at #bib12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA In Canada, 10% have e-readers, 10% tablets, 25% smartphones. "Canadians like the @Kobo,"@MTamblyn.

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plumbing is important! MT @bilbary: #BiB12 frequent mentions - discoverability, metadata, content creation, deviceagnosticism, publishers..

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19h Jennifer 8. Lee @jenny8lee

How do you get ebooks into brick and mortar stores? Gift cards. http://www.enthrillbooks.com/ #bib12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA "We conducted store audits to check on display placement, appearance, inventory counts." Noshrink (cards have no value)

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19h Laura Zander @lz

Each ebook gift card scanned 7 times before it enters retail store. Title specific gift cards. @FRANCOMEDIA #bib12http://endpaperengine.com

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19h Jaume Balmes @jaumebalmes

Last speaker at #BiB12, @FRANCOMEDIA, uses Gill Sans Light at their slides, my favorite typeface.

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA Launched in 112 stores total in Canada in June. 97% is #ebook sales in retail stores.

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Yes! RT @ljndawson: @lizcastro Like...STOCKING STUFFERS! #bib12

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19h Kat Meyer @KatMeyer

.@emckean - if anyone can help us find a better word for bookish/techy/"content" - it would be you! #bib12

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19h dslessing @dslessing

customers and retailers already know how to deal with gift cards. Ebook gift cards are fast growing segment @francomedia#bib12

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#BiB12 frequent mentions throughout bib12 - discoverability, metadata, content creation, device agnosticism, publishers..

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@lizcastro Like...STOCKING STUFFERS! #bib12




#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA "In essence, we've created a new product the customers are already familiar with." (Free sampleshere for BiB.)

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@ljndawson @francomedia It's such a brilliant idea. #bib12




I am SO getting one. #bib12

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Incredible preso from @francomedia on ebook gift cards. #bib12

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA "We launched this new sales channel in June of this year." @EntrhillBooks uses #ebook gift cardsfor in-store display.

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PackaDRM i.e. packaderm Endpapers own DRM @francomedia #bib12

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@FRANCOMEDIA's story is very inspiring. the #bib12 crowd will be able to say "they knew him when" he was merely atransmedia publisher

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"We are device agnostic and have to be to appeal to a mass audience." @francomedia #bib12

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RT @porter_anderson: #BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA "We need to put #ebooks where people are."

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA @EnthrillBooks uses the "endpaper" engine and the "packaDRM" system is social-watermarking.

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA "We need to put #ebooks where people are. After 2 years... we launched a sales channel forpublishers."

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19h Katie Dunneback @younglibrarian

@ljndawson @booksquare they are why I have a job right now. #bib12






#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA What he learned from that was how deep the distribution problems are for all publishers.

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Funny moment when I had to explain to a Brit who was confused by "E-Zed Pass" #bib12 @Francomedia

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19h India @indiamos

On metadata: MT @TAC_NISO: Like plumbing, people might not care much, but they're not so happy when it's broken #bib12

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Shout out to Jay-Zed from @FRANCOMEDIA to kick off the last session of #bib12

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19h William Donohue @wdonohue

#bib12 Readers need metadata-driven services that provide the ambient info they get from being in a bookstore, browsingphysical books.

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19h Anna Lewis @anna_cn

Great talk from @booksquare at #bib12 reminding everyone that it's all about readers, and what they want, and how varied thatcan be.

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#BiB12 @FRANCOMEDIA on "Endpaper Endgame" -- Reminds us of being here in 2010 another project. "We really didn'treceive strong sales."

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ebook gift cards from with @francomedia-I've been waiting for this one. #bib12

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Certainly, more open-mindedly. RT: @agwieckowski: Ebook navigation needs to be treated differently - @booksquare #bib12 <Yes!

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19h john maxwell @jmaxsfu

Jay-Zed. Yes! #cdn #bib12

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Bring it home @francomedia #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare is finishing, and we switch over to @FRANCOMEDIA on "Endpaper Endgame."

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19h eBookNoir @eBookNoir

@TAC_NISO @tcarmody @ljndawson make it ingredients then, like making a cake.... people like cake, they pay attention#bib12




@tcarmody @ljndawson Like plumbing, people might not care much, but they're not so happy when it's broken #bib12






@booksquare Thanks! #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare shows us her niece. Our future reader. "And I'm excited about the things you will be rendering for her."

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19h Ron Hogan @RonHogan

Ooh, @booksquare just made an unannounced Diamond Age reference in one of her #bib12 slides! EXcellent.

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Кася Кроссер очень хорошо рассказывает про чтение/читателя/читателей - все бывает разным. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "One of the challenges with #ebooks is they're created like print...we need to access it the way it makessense to us."

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Ebook navigation needs to be treated differently - @booksquare #bib12 < Yes!

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RT @emckean: @booksquare had best slide of #BIB12 (yes was intentional) pic.twitter.com/zwgMLKfq




@booksquare had best slide of #BIB12 (yes was intentional) pic.twitter.com/niBPj7ya



19h Plympton @plympton

A commentary on ebook quality at #bib12 http://instagr.am/p/RQ3xN7KvNU/



19h India @indiamos

There has been improvement, “but I still find myself screaming when I encounter formatting errors in my books.”—@booksquare #BiB12

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19h Aaron Miller @vaporbook

@booksquare What font is that on the Qaulity slide? I like. #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare " Qaulity" -- her spelling. Big laugh. Readers "don't care if it's from a Bix Six house or self-published."

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@booksquared Kassia Kroszer on the importance of reader-friendly metadata. #bib12

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RT @KatMeyer: what readers want in books: "Qaulity" ~ @booksquare #bib12 =>Shocking news for some....

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19h Rachel Packman Chou @rachelchounyc

Ok folks at #bib12 you are making me sooo want to be there. On the calendar for next year.



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what readers want in books: "Qaulity" ~ @booksquare #bib12

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#bib12 describe books in terms readers are searching for - I guess it's called metaDATA for a reason (vs information)

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"How are you describing the book in *my* words?" @booksquare #readermetadata #bib12

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Yes yes yes, THAT kind of metadata is awesome. And we need much much more of it. #bib12 @booksquare

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#BiB12 @Booksquare Metadata surrounding a book needs to engage keywords that match what readers want. AND THEYWANT...

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19h BiblioCrunch @BiblioCrunch

Why aren't you? RT @pressfuturist: Sounds as though @booksquare is delivering an excellent talk at #bib12. Rather wish Iwere there!

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Sounds as though @booksquare is delivering an excellent talk at #bib12. Rather wish I were there!

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They just don't KNOW they do. #bib12

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readers don't say "hey give me some great metadata" @booksquare #bib12

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Shocked that the average reader isn't saying "Damn, give me some of that great metadata" @booksquare #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare Reading systems, "It's cool stuff, but how does it fit into my life?" (her example she is the controversial@Bookshout)

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Yes, the average reader DOES expect good metadata. #bib12 @booksquare

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re: innovations in pub, readers ask themselves: "how is this better than what i have?" "is this something i really want to do?"#bib12

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. @booksquare highlighting need of #accessibility for print disabled. Huge market 1 of reasons Kindle sells so well in 65+market #bib12

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19h Vook @vooktv

@booksquare Focus on verticals that work for publishing programs and works that deliver what they promise. #bib12

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okay. @booksquare's slides are awesome. #bib12

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19h India @indiamos

If you are a developer, spend time with someone who's visually impaired and watch them read using assistive technology.—@booksquare #BiB12

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#knitters! @booksquare #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare So what do readers want? "Useful content that solves a problem or fulfills a need."

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19h Liza Daly @liza

The publishing unicorn has been spotted. #bib12

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Yes. RT @ljndawson: Yes. Yes. The print-disabled read too. #bib12 @booksquare

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Outstanding! Thanks. great detail RT @naypinya: many thanks to IA musicians Jeff Kaplan and Ted Silverman, aka the PacketSniffers! #bib12

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Krozser discusses reader personas: vacation reader, beginning reader, audio-book reader, vision-impaired reader... #bib12

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Yes. Yes. The print-disabled read too. #bib12 @booksquare

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#BiB12 @Booksquare Who are we aiming for? The platonic reader? Vacation reader? Beginning reader? Audiobook reader?Vision-impaired reader?

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.@booksquare says readers aren’t waiting for someone to hand them content, they are going out & finding it themselves. #bib12

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19h India @indiamos

“Beginning readers are a huge market, and I'm surprised we don't focus more on it.” —@booksquare #BiB12

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19h Kathryn @concisekathryn

"[readers] are reading everything everywhere" #bib12 yes!!

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@booksquare's talk is so perfect. #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "They are reading everything everywhere without regard to traditional publishing genres...fulfilling theirneeds."

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19h Vook @vooktv

Who is the Platonic reader? @booksquare gets Socratic at #bib12 Readers trust friends AND strangers. People are all over theplace, people.

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+1 RT @naypinya: many thanks to IA musicians Jeff Kaplan and Ted Silverman, aka the Packet Sniffers! #bib12

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(as opposed to in marketing mtgs) "Out here in the real world, readers have messy, hard-to-categorize lives" - @booksquare#bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "The platonic reader...exists mostly in marketing meetings. Out here in the real world, readers have messylives."

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19h India @indiamos

“When the publishing industry talks about readers—and they don't talk about readers all that much— . . .” —@booksquare#BiB12

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many thanks to IA musicians Jeff Kaplan and Ted Silverman, aka the Packet Sniffers! #bib12

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rt @sabsky "There is no right way to read" @booksquare #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "The vast majority of reading I do is on the web..& the average reader does more digital than he or sherealizes."

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"The vast majority of my reading is done on the web." #bib12 @booksquare (me too)

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19h Sabrina Ricci @sabsky

"There is no right way to read" @booksquare #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "With my life schedule sometimes I go days without picking up my #Kindle." Kassia has analyzed howshe reads.

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@tcarmody why are you not here? you should be here. #bib12






RT @indiamos Readers: “We could be hanging by our fingernails from a cliff, but as long as we have a book, we are fine.”—@booksquare #BiB12

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19h India @indiamos

Readers: “We could be hanging by our fingernails from a cliff, but as long as we have a book, we are fine.” —@booksquare#BiB12

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19h Tim Carmody @tcarmody

Maybe it's the warmly glowing tweets on my screen or the toxic nitrogen bubbles in my brain, but #bib12 sounds like a whole lotof fun.

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "#Kindle devices are really great for the kind of reading I do...allow me to carry a #library in my hand."

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love this: @booksquare says, "Readers like me are afraid of...being caught without a book." #bib12

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Readers like me have one fear: being caught without a book. - @booksquare #bib12 < Yes! thank you, smartphones.

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19h Miral Sattar @miralsattar

RT @KatMeyer: up next: @booksquare to live demo 4-D digital storytelling. (get out your umbrellas) #bib12

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RT @KatMeyer: fyi: the little people's official moniker is "terracotta archivists" according to IA's Laura Milvy. #bib12

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19h Lance Ellisor @LanceEllisor

June tells me that the #bib12 attendee who took the spill down the stairs is recovering well at the hospital. Details in person onrequest.

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"remember all those articles that said nobody would ever read on a screen? i read every single 1 of them. on a screen." -@booksquare #bib12

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#BiB12 @Booksquare "The digital revolution was tailor-made for me. I was an early digital reader...books in a browser in theearly '90s."

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19h India @indiamos

Remember all the silly articles that said nobody wd ever read on a screen? I read every single one of them, on a screen.—@booksquare #BiB12

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@jmaxsfu Yeah, the world is safe from paper now! #bib12






No worries... Adam Hyde/BookType just demoed a Javascript, in-browser print typesetting system. #bib12

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@dvsch Here we go. Kassia Krozser up next at #bib12 discussing what readers want.

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fyi: the little people's official moniker is "terracotta archivists" according to IA's Laura Milvy. #bib12

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An idea to all that PDF web-composing tools: export from LaTeX (HTML -> LaTeX -> PDF). PDF will increase typographicquality a lot. #BiB12

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up next: @booksquare to live demo 4-D digital storytelling. (get out your umbrellas) #bib12

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19h Josh Bettinger @paperwerq

The little people. And yes, that one dude has a Mets hat on. #bib12 @ Internet Archive http://instagr.am/p/RQ1Xu1JEJx/




The little people and @pablod @andrewsavikas @ftoolan #bib12 pic.twitter.com/mYOfb2w5




+1 :) RT @Marco4623: The Internet Archive musicians are super #bib12

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19h Marco Ferrario @Marco4623

The Internet Archive musicians are super #bib12

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biggest problem at #BiB12: do I go out to the break and talk with cool people, or sit in beautiful room & listen to bluegrass?#hardchoices

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@selfpubbootcamp true, but sometimes they add links and images, and even embed video. So that might help? #Bib12




#BiB12 Home gamers, stay with us for @Booksquare and @FRANCOMEDIA at 4pPT / 7pET, two fine creatures of theconference. :)

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I also love the vibrant environment - people who come here want to DO things. #bib12

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19h eBookNoir @eBookNoir

1000+ RT @ePubPupil: Man, I love my job & my industry. I love ebooks! #eprdctn #bib12

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+1,000,000 RT @lizcastro: Thanks to to @Porter_Anderson who has done an amazing job of tweeting #bib12



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smart to put 2 of the most anticipated presentations at the end of #bib12 @booksquare and @FRANCOMEDIA

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#BiB12 Simon Fox / Playlab #London is finishing now and we're into our last break of the conference, back at 4pPT / 7pET with@Booksquare!

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Thanks to to @Porter_Anderson who has done an amazing job of tweeting #bib12

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#BiB12 Simon Fox / Playlab #London says he has seen it "both true and not true" here that publishing is "skittsh around newtechnology."

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#BiB12 Simon Fox / Playlab #London: "God-hero friendship" is a focus of the work in "The Written World"...relations in conflictareas.

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19h Vook @vooktv

Re books & games. I've always wondered why no one has ever recreated anything like House of Leaves digitally. That was pre-e!#bib12

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#BiB12 Simon Fox / Playlab #London "We've tested this in schools"...using characters in The Silver Sword "to create entirelynew...

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"books tell stories. games tell stories." see @jonathan_blow for more on gr8 storytelling via games http://bit.ly/PDRAsx #bib12

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#BiB12 good quote from simon fox - game used in schools - "i forgot i was supposed to be learning"

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19h Michael Kowalski @micycle

The Written World from @playlablondon looks pretty neat #bib12

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"It's impossible to play a game without learning something" #bib12

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19h Travis Alber @screenkapture

@playlablondon at #bib12 Simon says "Books tell stories," and "Games tell stories" (true!)

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19h India @indiamos

Books and games both are fundamentally pedagogic tools. —Simon Fox #bib12

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#BiB12 Simon Fox / Playlab #London ...and a "cohesive piece of fiction, which reads well" should be the outcome of the



exercise.

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#BiB12 Simon Fox (has replaced Tobias Green, these gamers) / Playlab #London shows us metadata arrayed on the page...

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@booksquare ut oh - u r doing a live demo? will i want to move to a pew further away from the stage? #bib12



19h India @indiamos

A text-based game called Cotillion that's an Austen-style comedy of manners? GAME ON! By Richard Evans & Emily Short; perSimon Fox #BiB12

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W3C Workshop on Electronic Books + the Open Web Platform http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/ … 2/11-12/13#TOCCON #bib12

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19h Vook @vooktv

The Written Word looks curiously like a roguelike. Reminds me of Passage & Jason Rohrer: http://tig.wikia.com/wiki/Jason_Rohrer … #bib12

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19h Bess Sadler @eosadler

I want one of these! “@olpcsf: Bookberry Pi. A OPDS book server running on @raspberry_pi http://ur1.ca/aodli #BiB12#OLPC”

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19h Kassia Krozser @booksquare

gearing up for my #bib12 talk. have scrapped plan to dictate presentation. now planning live demo. anyone have a book?

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#BiB12 Tobias Green / Playlab #London "For us, storytelling is fundamentally a social act...you need a social space, a sharedcontext."

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19h kindoma @kindoma

Tobias Green (Playlab London): "games are stories that are fundamentally about explosions" #bib12

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around 85 percent of remaining attendees on friday afternoon of #bib12 voted for a hackfest day at /next/ BiB. nothing describeBiB better.

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19h Liza Daly @liza

Nice to see @emshort name-checked at the second #bib12 (and not even by me.)

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@pablod @ftoolan someone please take a picture #bib12




@Booktrk it already is - Toy Story app is one example #bib12






#BiB12 Tobias Green / Playlab #London "Books tell stories, games tell stories...narrative is an inevitable consequence of gamemechanics."

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RT @kevinmarks: 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived! http://bit.ly/RkULHT =>10 Petabytes Way to go @internetarchive#bib12




RT @miralsattar: If you're Disney you're making games in books #bib12 I hope this is true!

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Why is an ebook ever riddled with typos? http://vrge.co/Tkul9T via @tcarmody #bib12




Simon Fox from Playlab London says the reasons we read are often the same reasons we choose to play games, i.e. engage w/stories. #bib12

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Pew Research only 15% people read for "imaginative escapism" Surprised it's so few. Course, wish I could read more for thatreason #bib12

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20h Marc Jahjah @SoBookOnline

Le développement de Readium (lecture d'ePub dans le navigateur) renforce par ailleurs les rapprochements entre livre et web.#bib12

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Next books in browsers to feature a half-day hackday for folks to try out tools! Great idea, would love people to hack on@makewoopie #bib12

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20h India @indiamos

Games and books are fundamentally not as different as we might believe. —Simon Fox #BiB12

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Booktype тоже развивается - надо туда заглянуть. Может, они и обработку кириллицы починили #BiB12



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20h Bill Kendrick @billkendrick

Missing this year's #bib12

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#BiB12 Tobias Green of Playlab #London has a moment of Maslow here, with the pyramid and self-actualization at the top.(Keep reading.)

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Susurrus! Gotta love that word. #weefreemen #TobiasGreen #bib12

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Meeee toooo! RT @ePubPupil: Man, I love my job & my industry. I love ebooks! #eprdctn #bib12

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#BiB12 Tobias Green of Playlab #London quotes @PewResearch on 26% of people who read do so to learn, gain knowledge.

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Books vs games at #bib12 http://img.ly/oXAq

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If you're Disney you're making games in books #bib12

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#BiB12 Now, with "The Written World," Tobias Green of Playlab #London is here to speak.

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20h Iris Amelia @ePubPupil

Man, I love my job & my industry. I love ebooks! #eprdctn #bib12

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+1 RT @TAC_NISO: . @naypinya is suggesting that next time we get together there might be a hack-fest after #bib13 #bib12

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@TheLitPlatform met @charabbott at #bib12, v interesting on cultural importance of tagging and metadata that pubs aremissing out on.




DON’T LOOK NOW BUT I’M SITTING WITH THE LITTLE PEOPLE. #bib12

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@TAC_NISO Last year on the way home, I hit that crazy 2 foot fluke snowstorm. Think I might sneak in this time before Sandy.#bib12




Nothing encapsulates #bib12 more than the fact that 80% of participants want to join in BIBHackfest for #bib13



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Typographicly speaking these PDF web-created are terrific! #BiB12

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Yes!! Hack day! #bib12 @naypinya

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#BiB12 but... fundamentally... we're often still looking at ebooks as books.. interesting.

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde is finishing his preso that includes the "book sprint" concept (which will be at #TOC13 #TOCcon as aworkshop).

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MT @javiercelaya: Publishers should work with more startups to create alternatives that can compete with Amazon @gunzalis#BiB12

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. @naypinya is suggesting that next time we get together there might be a hack-fest after #bib13 #bib12

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20h Liana Holmberg @lianaholmberg

Next year: BiB barcamp. #bib12

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RT @porter_anderson #BiB12 Adam Hyde The tools are limited and there isn't always an environment conducive to orsupportive of...

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@dvsch @bilbary @mbtimney write a good story first, then test on beta readers #bib12

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@jmaxsfu Or was that just a pdf in the browser for the sake of viewing it? #bib12




+1 RT @javiercelaya: Las editoriales deberían trabajar más con start-ups para crear alternativas que puedan competir contraAmazon #BiB12

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20h India @indiamos

“I believe that the whole design process for *paper* book production is moving to the browser.” —Adam Hyde #BiB12

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Just realised a lot of interesting stuff coming out of #BiB12... Why aren't we there! Wish we could be there

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Is Adam Hyde talking about doing print formatting in the browser? #bib12

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So not pleased that #Sandy is projected to be directly over #Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon #bib12

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RT @katmeyer: Adam Hyde will be leading Book Sprints workshop at #TOCCON NYC in Feb. http://www.toccon.com/toc2013/public/schedule/detail/26756 … #bib12

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Me too, but I succumbed to the Napoleons. RT @pattychase919: Today I resisted the call of the cream puffs at #bib12.#superhumanstrength

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Sign me up! +1 RT @KatMeyer: Adam Hyde will be leading Book Sprints workshop at #TOCCON NYC in Feb. http://bit.ly/RkUiW2 #bib12

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RT @indiamos The collaborative open-source book-production tool Adam Hyde is showing: http://is.gd/YwXi57 #bib12

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Adam Hyde will be leading Book Sprints workshop at #TOCCON NYC in Feb. http://www.toccon.com/toc2013/public/schedule/detail/26756 … #bib12

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde's Booktype program has "book monitoring and managing tools" that let you "zoom in and see what's goingon" in-process.

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RT @indiamos: The collaborative open-source book-production tool Adam Hyde is showing: http://is.gd/YwXi57 #BiB12

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Ps male/female ratio a bit more balanced at #bib12 25/15 - slowly but surely changing the ratio :)



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20h India @indiamos

The collaborative open-source book-production tool Adam Hyde is showing: http://is.gd/YwXi57 #BiB12

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Booktype tool: http://bitly.com/TL3xLZ #BiB12

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RT @naypinya: "it's been developed outside the publishing industry" - seems to be mantra at #bib12 - adam hyde =>As it seemsto be each year

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Platform to write & publish print/ digital books: Booktype http://ow.ly/eO5P2 #BiB12

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RT @naypinya: "it's been developed outside the publishing industry" - seems to be mantra at #bib12 - adam hyde

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! RT @TAC_NISO: HTML is the hot metal typesetting of our time #bib12

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HTML is the hot metal typesetting of our time #bib12

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"it's been developed outside the publishing industry" - seems to be mantra at #bib12 - adam hyde

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20h Virginie Clayssen @v_clayssen

#ff #bib12 people - thank you for yout tweets @Porter_Anderson @NickRuffilo @ljndawson @abdelazer @billmccoy@naypinya @ftoolan @blaine

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20h Katherine Fletcher @kefletcher

#BiB12 Booksprints combine low tech social organization & high tech collab tools. More trying it @siyavula, @sourcefabric,@boundless

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Adam Hyde makes the straightforward case for HTML as a book production technology. #bib12

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20h India @indiamos

“Book sprint” collab group includes a representative *reader* to say whether they’re making s/t she wants and understands.—Adam Hyde #BiB12

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20h BiblioCrunch @BiblioCrunch

RT @booksquare: +1,000,000 “@TAC_NISO: Big shout out to @internetarchive for making #bib12 a smooth and excellentmeeting!”

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde Since 2007, the software has been downloadable - HTML base file format, standards based, open source.

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20h Patty Chase @pattychase919

Today I resisted the call of the cream puffs at #bib12. #superhumanstrength

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+10^999999999999999999999999 RT @TAC_NISO: Big shout out to @internetarchive for making #bib12 a smooth andexcellent meeting! #bib12

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde Those brought together for a #book sprint include experts & non-experts. (And many Post-Its, judging fromthe photos).

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‘Book sprint idea came out of floss, as a way to get documentation quickly for open source technology’ —great idea #bib12

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RT @Porter_Anderson #BiB12 Adam Hyde "book sprint" goes "from zero to book in 4 days," with ~6 people coming togetherfor express purpose

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20h Derrick Schultz @dvsch

.@bilbary @mbtimney should writers be more concerned about what *they* want? or what *their readers* want? #BiB12




+1 more RT @booksquare: +1,000,000 “@TAC_NISO: Big shout out to @internetarchive for making #bib12 a smooth andexcellent meeting!” #bib12

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20h Kassia Krozser @booksquare

+1,000,000 “@TAC_NISO: Big shout out to @internetarchive for making #bib12 a smooth and excellent meeting!”

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde "At the end of five days, you have a fully designed, proofed format ready" for publication.

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20h Bill McCoy @billmccoy

the most beautiful EPUB 3 cloud reader yet, from Voyager Japan: http://binb-store.com/binbReader.html?cid=18798 … #bib12#epub3

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@adamengst Yes, I believe O'Reilly will make the videos from #bib12 available soon. @naypinya @jwikert




#BiB12 Adam Hyde A "book sprint" goes "from zero to book in four days," with some six people coming together for the expresspurpose.

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"From zero to book in 4 days" - Adam Hyde #bib12

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde The tools are limited and there isn't always an environment conducive to or supportive of collaboration inpublishing.

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Love the idea of book sprints, how cool is that? #bib12

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde talks "One of the things we need is tools to facilitate collaboration...but the process (now) is far fromoptimal."

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Чувак из Floss Manual ссылается на Фуко и «смерть автора» — про коллаборативный онлайновый редактор ;) #BiB12

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+1 RT @TAC_NISO: Big shout out to @internetarchive for making #bib12 a smooth and excellent meeting!

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@micycle @bilbary Most authors already have word, manuscripts, or pdfs when we surveyed them #bib12



20h Tim Brandhorst @TimBrandhorst

A heartfelt thank you to @TOC @Katmeyer @jwikert & @naypinya for livesteaming #bib12. Truly wonderful to be able topeek in from afar.

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#BiB12 Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals on how "collaboration in book production is essential...what authorship is, is still amystery."

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@jellybooks The thing you don't see on the livestream is that in the breaks afterwards...the speakers get mobbed! #bib12



20h India @indiamos

“All books are…produced collaboratively.” —Adam Hyde #BiB12

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+1 RT @anna_cn: When I need to review the last two days, I'll just check out @Porter_Anderson's twitter stream :) #bib12

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"Collaboration in book production is essential." Adam Hyde of FLOSS discusses the social aspects of book production. #bib12

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#BiB12 Next up is Adam Hyde talking about collaboration in book production. He'll briefly point out our joint work on authoringtools.

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sure, now that more authors blog, it's familiar RT @bilbary: #BiB12 question - do authors *want* to create their books in a webenvironment?

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Energy level at #bib12 seems to be waning.... Brains are filling up

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook is finishing up his preso, and Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals is up for "Social BookProduction."

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@jaumebalmes Internal, industry mark-up already colliding with external HTML mark-up, few willing to attempt even partialsemantic. #bib12




When I need to review the last two days in a concise, informative way, I'll just check out @Porter_Anderson's twitter stream :)#bib12

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RT @nicolasbwulf: RT @Hadrien: You should be able to walk into a book store, buy an ebook and get a link as a SMS to load it#bib12

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Big shout out to @internetarchive for making #bib12 a smooth and excellent meeting!

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Vook явно развивается. Уже и читалку свою прикрутили к магазину. И экспорт в html5 и аппы делать собираются #BiB12

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20h Jellybooks Ltd. @Jellybooks

Do folks at #BiB12 ave no questions to ask? Must be the church setting and the hard pews :)

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RT @micycle: RT @bilbary: #BiB12 question - do authors *want* to create their books in a web environment? is it familiar tothem?

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RT @liza: Your engineers have names. #bib12



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Not really. Write first RT @bilbary: #BiB12 question - do authors *want* to create their books in a web environment? is itfamiliar to them?

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Kindle does tend to overwrite custom CSS files with its own global CSS standard #BiB12 so @vookwhat is your work around?

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook "The same compiler engine that runs on the back-end runs in our browser."

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#BiB12 question - do authors *want* to create their books in a web environment? is it familiar to them?

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Yay for Django publishing platforms! :D #bib12

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook "We allow you to build a style" that remains consistent on all your products.

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20h Liza Daly @liza

Your engineers have names. #bib12

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook "The CSS editing is key because if you're a media company, you want your ebook to lookunique."

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook "Text should be easy. We're focused on getting #ebooks right. Still too much pain and sufferingaround that."

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook "Everything is managed inside the tool (metadata, output control in the merchandising/retailenvironment)."

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RT @arhomberg: Oh the irony @Vook is building direct-to-consumer book stores for NON-publishers #BiB12

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Oh the irony @vook is building direct-to-consumer book stores for NON-publishers #BiB12

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner @Vook "At the end of the day, these people all have a P&L responsibility."

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#BiB12 Matthew Cavner of @Vook is talking to us about their format-solution functionality and storefront landing pages.

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I haven't saw any author tool that works with semantics markup. I don't understand why. Or sadly yes... #BiB12

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@awsamuel you should! (it will be archived, too) #TOCCON @haigarmen #bib12



20h bowerbird @bbirdiman

@PeterTurner @ljndawson #bib12 -- i watched macinnis (to hate) and martinez (to love). if anything else was worthy, please_do_ let me know.




Так и будет RT @Hadrien: You should be able to walk into a book store, buy an ebook and get a link as a SMS to load it #bib12

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20h AlexandraSamuel.com @awsamuel

Hey @haigarmen we should be looking at #bib12 stream from the Books in Browsers conference this week.

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You should be able to walk into a book store, buy an ebook and get a link as a SMS to load it #bib12

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Actually, SMS is a great way to share an OPDS callback #bib12

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20h Nellie McKesson @NellieMcKesson

Anyone have an eInk Kindle + usb cable on them that i can borrow for 60 seconds? free ebook in it for you! #bib12

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I have to go and live my other life now. Thanks #bib12 @katmeyer @napinya. Will catch up on @Porter_Anderson's and othertweets later.

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20h Ranti Junus @ranti

#bib12 I missed what Brewster Kahle said before the break. Could somebody tell me? Thx.

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Jeez. This conference is fantastic!!! #bib12 Acoustic old school musical instruments, breathtaking new tech. #greatcombination#bib12

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#BiB12 We're going into another break now, and will resume presos at 2:45pPT / 5:45pET, thanks.

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20h Javier Celaya @javiercelaya

Aerbook, plataforma de edición en la nube, permite la compra y descarga de #ebooks a través de un SMS http://bit.ly/RnXZZz #Bib12

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Thanks! RT @saybooks: Txt 'bib' to (415 800 3815) and @aerbook will get back to you. (I think I got that right?) @lizcastro#bib12

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@ljndawson Very true, I was just being annoying ;) Love the idea of a hack day tho /cc @naypina #bib12




#BiB12 @ronmartinez Text "bib" to 415-800-3815 for the WIP

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Txt 'bib' to (415 800 3815) and @aerbook will get back to you. (I think I got that right?) @lizcastro #bib12

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@lizcastro Text Bib to 415-800-3815 #bib12






+1 RT @FRANCOMEDIA: Send me a sample chapter through SMS - very cool! @ronmartinez #BIB12

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20h Nicole Jones @nicoleslaw

Teared up several times today. Books in browsers, people. #bib12

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OK, who got the number, I was too slow. #bib12 @ronmartinez

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AerBook's architecture is based on pagination, yes? #bib12

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@ljndawson Yes, but I'm not sure I can handle architected as a past participle. #bib12 #languagemajors







all this drops out of the architecture, good example of a good architecture! —@ronmartinez #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez [ More on @TheRogueReader is here on the #Ether: http://ow.ly/eO2q7 ]

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@NickRuffilo No! Not at all. I'm saying a well-architected book is a beautiful thing! Because it allows for SO MUCH. #bib12




How much does @aerbook cost? Subscription?Seems really well integrated #bib12

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RT @susanmpls: .@ronmartinez of @aerbook says there's no reason why SMS can’t be a delivery mechanism for books.#bib12



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Ooh! Sign me up! RT @pablod: @ljndawson @lizcastro now THAT would be an awesome ‘book camp,’ even worthy of thename. #bib12

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The ‘text a keyword to subscribe’ model & then have ability to read in iBooks or on web is pretty slick! #bib12

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@susanmpls Oh, @paperight knows all about that! #bib12




+1 RT @micycle: RT @ljndawson I wish we could all stay on and DO stuff together. #bib12 #letsplay < Next year with addedhack day?

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20h Kevin Franco @FRANCOMEDIA

Send me a sample chapter through SMS - very cool! @ronmartinez #BIB12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez is showing us @TheRogueReader (from Movable Type Mgt) material built on @hughmcguire's@PressBooks platform.

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.@ronmartinez of @aerbook says there's no reason why SMS can’t be a delivery mechanism for books. #bib12

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Ah, cool to see The Rogue Reader up on screen in @aerbook presentation @pressbooks #bib12

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+1 RT @ljndawson @lizcastro I'd just like for us all to hang around for a week and play w/each other's toys in real timeside-by-side #bib12

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@lizcastro A well-architected book is a beautiful thing. #bib12




Really liking @ronmartinez’s Aerbook, cool platform & ideas #bib12 pic.twitter.com/fG6R6pxp




#BiB12 @ronmartinez #Publishing to the web involves a reader "that's mostly done" and may spin off "social metadata" withshared reading.

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@studiowalrus @ronmartinez I dunno. there are some things that I don't need to do by hand. #bib12






RT @billmccoy: @ronmartinez is aerbook XML schema public? and, are there good reasons not to use native XHTML5/SVG +EPUB spine? #bib12

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very impressed by how far @ronmartinez has brought @Aerbook in the past year. #bib12

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RT @ljndawson I wish we could all stay on and DO stuff together. #bib12 #letsplay < Great idea! Next year with added hackday?

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21h Bruce Watermann @bruceww

RT @hughmcguire: crikey when was the last time any of you was inspired by a "digital books conference"? #bib12

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"It falls out of the architecture." @ronmartinez #bib12

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@lizcastro I'd just like for us all to hang around for a week and play w/each other's toys in real time side-by-side. #bib12




@ronmartinez @aerbook . is aerbook XML schema public? and, are there good reasons not to use native XHTML5/SVG +EPUB spine? #bib12

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@ljndawson I did that at a Mozilla conference once. Working on popcorn, actually. It was really neat. #bib12




Aerbook seems pretty sophisticated. Also has social sharing mechanism, with open graph metadata #bib12

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Мартинес из http://aerbook.com/site/ - облачный паблишинг. Правда, только для графики. #bib12

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Ahhh, need to get my comic to @ronmartinez! #bib12

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Ron Martinez. Shows how architecture underpins everything. Not just for web but for other formats and devices on press ofbutton. #bib12

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I wish we could all stay on and DO stuff together. #bib12 #letsplay

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Aerbook looks pretty cool! @ronmartinez #bib12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez talks of "making books in real time on your iPhone or iPad" via upload into the Maker. (#journalistic



applications)

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Aerbook Maker looks extremely comprehensive —@ronmartinez #BiB12

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Ron Martinez. Cool to see demonstration of mobile. #bib12

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@hughmcguire I know - I almost cried, actually. #bib12




RT @hughmcguire: crikey when was the last time any of you was inspired by a "digital books conference"? #bib12 = Last yearat #bib11

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21h Henrik Berggren @henrikberggren

@lz The cloud absolutely drives #bib12




Ron Martinez demonstrating Aerbook Maker. 'PDF the most uninteresting format in the world' Yep #bib12

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Aerbook Maker -interesting, amazing in fact - @dreamingmethods http://aerbook.com/site/ #bib12

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21h Hugh McGuire @hughmcguire

crikey when was the last time any of you was inspired by a "digital books conference"? #bib12

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21h thomas dunlap @spladow

.@seanbonner on a slide at #bib12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez In Aerbook Maker (launched July), book can be exported in all formats, followed by delivery and socialfor discovery.

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@henrikberggren everything is in the cloud-- will cars be next? Cloud-driving? #bib12




This one source, many formats is standard for business CM systems; still seems a stretch for many publishers. #bib12

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Ron Martinez 'Design premise: 'book' is an abstraction' at start of the process. XML underlies structure, export to multiple format.#bib12

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Voyager Jp BinB looks beautiful - http://binb-store.com/binbReader.html?cid=18798 … #bib12



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21h India @indiamos

“A book is sort of an abstraction at this point…it’s packaged paginated content.” —@ronmartinez #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez "Books in Clouds" -- "our design premise is that a book is an abstraction; packaged, paginated content."

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21h Henrik Berggren @henrikberggren

That cloud looks like a car #bib12

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+1 RT @Porter_Anderson #BiB12 @ronmartinez "Usually the best thing you can do is the only thing that will work.Architecture really matters"

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez "Usually the best thing you can do is the only thing that will work. Architecture really matters."

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Ron Martinez 'Have to make right architectural decisions'. YES again. Where art meets tech #bib12

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Ladies and gentlemen, RT @hughmcguire: it seems like there really will be books in browsers. #bib12

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El 30% de los libros publicados en papel contienen ilustraciones @ronmartinez #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez Ideal reqs include control (by designers), creation (all sources), formats (all), delivery (all means), cost(good).

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Ron Martinez. Deliver in every format that matters helps one get to the 'rational P&L' including Amazon. Exactly #bib12

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21h coreycaitlin @coreycaitlin

That Voyager talk blew my mind a little. <3 Look at how gorgeous this is: http://binb-store.com/binbReader.html?cid=18798 …#bib12

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Ron Martinez. YES!!!!!!!!!!! Control needs to be in hands of designers not coders #bib12

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21h Meghan MacDonald @meghanmac

RT @kinwong: Link to the Voyager JP book: http://binb-store.com/binbReader.html?cid=18798 … #bib12

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Ron Martinez, yes 'rational P&L' is key for publishers. Indeed #bib12



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#BiB12 @ronmartinez Problems of illustrated-to-e include multiple graphical formats, expense, originals made for print, etc.

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@ronmartinez "Rational P&L's are REALLY IMPORTANT to publishers." #bib12

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That choco-tequila recipe that went by on RonMartinez' slides: https://www.tcho.com/explore/bite-me/recipes/19-drinks/117-diablotcho … #bib12

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Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn => "The metrics monster" ... Now that's an accolade #bib12

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RT @hughmcguire: it seems like there really will be books in browsers. #bib12

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#BiB12 @ronmartinez cites @MTamblyn's observation that 30% of print books are illustrated but a fraction of them are#ebooks.

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HAHA, once again with all the writers turning tech. @ronmartinez #englishmajors #bib12

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@hughmcguire I know, I'm spending every moment almost fainting with joy. #bib12




'Interplanetary Spy' comic book opens Ron's talk. Okay, I'm sold! #bib12

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it seems like there really will be books in browsers. #bib12

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#BiB12 now turns to @ronmartinez with @aerbook: "Books in Clouds: Architecture Matters." See http://Facebook.com/aerbook

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Ron Martinez of @aerbook. Looking forward to this one. 'Books in Clouds' #bib12

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Have to say that the swapping out of everyone's computer has gone exceptionally smoothly by the tech staff at #bib12 =>Noteasily done well

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@ronmartinez up now. #bib12

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I really enjoyed Hagino's talk at #bib12 So smart, so inspiring.

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21h MissAdventuring @MissAdventuring

Catch the live stream now to see Ron Martinez of @aerbook rich media ebook creator #BIB12 http://bit.ly/TKXqHx

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@KatMeyer Hello, hello! Loving #bib12. Business model: charge small fee for people to sign up for livestreaming of all TOCconferences :)




Hey, @naypinya, could IA host that video? #bib12

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan -- this is a link to the book we have heard about in this impressive talk: http://ow.ly/eO0GD

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Tech issues de riguer at conferences. No biggie! #bib12

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"We don't have much time left, I think" #Hagino @VoyagerJapan #bib12

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RT @atelier7_ana: RT @kinwong: Link to the Voyager JP book: http://binb-store.com/binbReader.html?cid=18798 … #bib12

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thanks to all the contributors! RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Masaaki Hagino thanks @brianoleary @hughmcguire for"Futurist's Manifesto"

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@saybooks Hi Anna! #bib12




#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan While talking about the book, "I am also talking about 'gloss,' images sorted to uploadto the site."

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#selfpub authors catch live stream of Books in Browsers in 1/2 hr at14:45 to see Matthew Cavnar of Vook http://bit.ly/TKXqHx #BIB12

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RT @kinwong: Link to the Voyager JP book: http://bit.ly/PVrKnz #bib12

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan -- a couple of tech issues while we look at the versioning of text Voyager has done.

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21h Ricky Wong @kinwong

Link to the Voyager JP book: http://binb-store.com/binbReader.html?cid=18798 … #bib12

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21h John McAlester @johnmcalester

What a lose for the world and stunning lack of vision from major publishers. #BiB12

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21h Søren Peter Sørensen @sorenpsorensen

“@mogens_nielsen: Seeing all the BiB12 tweets make me wish I could have attended.” <— Totally agree. #BIB12

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan is talking about The Emporer and the Wolf http://ow.ly/eNZSl about the Tora! x3script.






Pubs stopped Google from indexing scanned content because Google was running ads against those results. #BiB12

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@lizcastro yes in japan it was dec 8 across the dateline. recognized date to start of pacific war in japan #bib12




MT @johnmcalester: Google wasn't able to integrate book content into search results bc of the lawsuits with publishers. #BiB12

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@lizcastro Right? #bib12




Wow, do the Japanese think about Pearl Harbor happening on Dec 8th? I guess it did for them. #bib12

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voyager jp brought back original kurosawa script for Tora! Tora! Tora! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tora!_Tora!_Tora …! #bib12

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@naypinya 'cus I know ownership is the most important thing to you! #bib12

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But then google wasn't able to integrate that content into the main results because of the lawsuits with publishers. #BiB12

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino / Voyager Japan thanks BiB, @brianoleary, @hughmcguire (@PressBooks) for "A Futurist'sManifesto" http://ow.ly/eNZHb




@naypinya Perhaps you should have (c) or TM bib #bib12 :)



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Masaaki Hagino thanking @hughmcguire and @brianoleary for "book: a futurist's manifesto" - so lovely #bib12

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan has launched a project inspired for him by Books in Browsers. It's called BinB.

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21h Julieta Lionetti @JulietaLionetti

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan: "Simpler means easy to use, smaller means low overheadcosts."

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan: "Simpler means easy to use, smaller means low overhead costs."

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@jmaxsfu @ftoolan Google Play has 52 books on "play ukulele" for purchase, probably more than I might need http://bit.ly/PVqHnI #bib12




#bib12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan: authors need simpler/smaller/stronger but current eBook production tools are notenough

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#BiB12 Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan: "We are focusing on simple text content...we are satisfied with #ePUB 3 for vertical#writing."

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RT @maxfenton: “We are old school digital publishers.” Masaaki Hagino / Voyager #bib12 :D #bib12

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All this talk of dinner, anybody interested in going out this evening? #bib12 last night in SF.

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#BiB12 follows @stanine's preso on @inkling with Masaaki Hagino of Voyager Japan: "Simpler, Smaller, Stronger."

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21h Jon Simpson @simjon

@ePubPupil #bib12 Kinda what I meant by the rainbows, following from afar. So much further from my daily world.



21h Max Fenton @maxfenton

“We are old school digital publishers.” Masaaki Hagino / Voyager #bib12 :D

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Nifty photos from #bib12 - including close-ups of Bookberry Pi: http://bit.ly/RnVuX0 #OLPC #bookserver



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@TAC_NISO @ftoolan -- You're right. When I search How to Play Ukelele on Google Books, I get some pretty solid content.Visible too. #bib12



21h Walrus Ebooks @studiowalrus

@LauraB7 @arhomberg @lizcastro Just had diner here in Berlin. #bib12



21h OLPC San Francisco @olpcsf

Bookberry Pi: Pathagar running on a @Raspberry_Pi #OLPC #BiB12 http://ur1.ca/aodnp

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@stanine did I understand correctly that Inkling is going to allow export to EPUB? Will that be EPUB 3? #bib12 #eprdctn

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Выступил Inkling. И - новть - опять пообещал запустить Habitat. Один раз уже «запускал» в феврале #BiB12

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@simjon Indeed #bib12




@jmaxsfu That's true of the content that they make available, but not necessarily what Google has scanned. #bib12




@arhomberg This is good. I knew very little about Inkling, it's nice to hear its CEO speak. Even for 15mn. #bib12




@ePubPupil Reality Distortion Field? #bib12






21h jennybullough @jennybullough

RT @ljndawson: SEARCH IS THE NEW STOREFRONT #bib12

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@booksquare @ljndawson - plus, it's an adorable name. #bookberrypie #bib12




Lifestream/livestream tomato/tomato #BIB12

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@TAC_NISO @ftoolan I wondered if he's making a comment on Google books skew toward old library-scanned stuff instead ofthe new? #bib12




This is true for digital & physical. #discoverability MT @ljndawson: YES EXACTLY SEARCH IS THE NEW STOREFRONT#bib12



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Más allá de Google: Inkling apuesta firmemente por facilitar el descubrimiento de #ebooks @stanine #BiB12

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Books are where important,expensive, valuable content lives and Google doesn't index it. This is why Google started scanningbooks. #BiB12

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@joycecroft yer boss (@stanine) is blowing our minds @ #bib12 @inkling

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@ftoolan Isn't Google Books full of many millions of books worth of content? #bib12






Il modello di @inkling èdi essere il Google del contenuto dei libri in commercio - not bad! @stanine #bib12

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to the people talking at #bib12 prezi is just a bad tool for showing your content. It gives motion sickness. ;)

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#BiB12 @stanine is "launching hundreds of new trade & pro titles this quarter." #Publishers can use the @inkling discoveryplatform.

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21h jason clark @jaclark

@griffey "RT Cool! @sameerverma just walked in with his Bookberry Pi ebook server!" #bib12 http://flic.kr/p/do2NrH




Gonna be honest; I feel like I'm in an RDF right now. #bib12

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BookBerry Pi is what I want for every house & school that has networked screens, so that library is persistent and can beorganized. #bib12

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@stanine talking about the importance of structured data to search engine indexes. #bib12

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@TAC_NISO BAHAHAHAHA, probably true of most industries. #bib12




#BiB12 @stanine "When content can be discovered directly from @Google...@Amazon won't get as many frustrated Googleusers."

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do we need a fact checker for #bib12 presos? speaker giving some very misleading info about finding books on google

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@ljndawson We might be better off with a reduction in the number of lawyers in our industry #bib12



21h marcoghezzi @marcoghezzi

there is almost no commercial book content in google search index" @stanine #bib12

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So many people doing SUCH GOOD WORK at #bib12

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#BiB12 @stanine "The computer needs to know how to interpret the structure of content" for search to access and render a bookin results.

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@TAC_NISO That's only part of it. But it's a big part. #bib12




There is a lack of book content in google search, might have something to do with the many lawsuits in our space #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: SEARCH IS THE NEW STOREFRONT #bib12

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@arhomberg Are you in #bib12, I mean physically?




#BiB12 @stanine shows us a search: "The reality is there is no commercial #book content in @Google's index."

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21h Julieta Lionetti @JulietaLionetti

Smart! RT @ljndawson: YES EXACTLY SEARCH IS THE NEW STOREFRONT #bib12

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@stanine is talking about EXACTLY what @brianoleary was talking about in Opportunity in Abundance. #bib12

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hi @stanine I know you are squeezing 45 min prezo into 15 min, but it's too fast for some foreigners, like poor @studiowalrus#BiB12






YES EXACTLY SEARCH IS THE NEW STOREFRONT #bib12

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Content discovery is the real problem at the moment in digital book distribution #bib12 =>Better metadata, might help.

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#BiB12 @stanine of @inkling on discovery. "The problem for us is not about finding a book in a store or at @Amazon but infoin the world."

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21h Sally Wilson @swilson416

Interesting - Small footprint book server - Bookberry Pi from OLPC #bib12

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21h India @indiamos

“We think that fixed layout is cheating…“ ”No one builds books alone…” —@stanine on iBooks Author #bib12

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21h OLPC San Francisco @olpcsf

Bookberry Pi. A OPDS book server running on @raspberry_pi http://ur1.ca/aodli #BiB12 #OLPC

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#BiB12 @stanine of @inkling "At @inkling, we've been busy building Habitat, but I'm not spending a lot of time on that today."

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21h Nick Ruffilo @NickRuffilo

Inkling things fixed-layout is cheating - really? #bib12

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RT @mbtimney: "The ebook revolution is just beginning." @stanine #bib12 =>A mere 2.1 billion of a global $130 billionindustry

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iBooks Author - "Keynote for Books!" @stanine #bib12

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@arhomberg This guy right now on stage is speaking REAAALLY fast for me. #bib12




"The ebook revolution is just beginning." @stanine #bib12

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#BiB12 @stanine of @inkling "The #ebook revolution is still just beginning. So why do we think of ebooks as synonymous with#Kindle files?"

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21h Vook @vooktv

"The broader consumer audience thinks about an eBook as a kindle file." #bib12

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Publishers more proud of their print products than their digital products. - @stanine #bib12



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#BiB12 Now back, with @stanine shows us a two-minute effort to find multiple errors in Ukelele for Dummies. http://ow.ly/eNXKA

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21h Vook @vooktv

@inkling digging into text rendering errors and pain of scale conversion. #bib12

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21h India @indiamos

This current slide is my life. #BiB12 #eprdctn

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Ahhhh, @nickruffilo, THERE'S your ukelele #bib12 #boom

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"Scale over substance" #bib12 @stanine

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#BiB12 Now back, with @stanine of @inkling "But scale (as in @Amazon's) doesn't always solve meaningful problems."

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#BiB12 Now back, with @stanine of @inkling And distribution? He shows us @Amazon. And use? Swipe and swipe and swipe.

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RT @meghanmac: Possibly my favourite thing today. RT @jmaxsfu: OLPC BookBerry Pi portable, solar-powered book server.Whoa. #bib12

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Every product needs a way to be distributed... So, here's Amazon.... #bib12

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Nice picture of smiling XML jockeys. #bib12

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#BiB12 Now back, with @stanine of @inkling We're all familiar with the #ebook file. Matt shows us the XML build on a book.

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Mind blown YET AGAIN. #bookberrypi #bib12

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Me too. RT @meghanmac: Possibly my favourite thing today. RT @jmaxsfu: OLPC BookBerry Pi portable, solar-powered bookserver. Whoa. #bib12

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#BiB12 Now back, with @stanine of @inkling "Every product needs a way to build, distribute, and use it."



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#BiB12 fame at last - bottom right corner, that's my legs! http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/8125518818/ …




Yeah, the google search for #bookberrypie won't stop correcting it to blueberry.... mmmm, dessert (Yes, I know how to fix it)#bib12

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Bookberry Pi here: http://flic.kr/p/do2NrH #bib12



21h thomas dunlap @spladow

I just saw a solar powered Raspberry Pie book server that can run in the middle of nowhere. Amazing! #bib12

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RT @wdonohue: #bib12 Bookberry Pi: OLPC devs built light-weight bookserver based on Internet Archive, SD card, RaspberryPi

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Every product needs a way to be built, distributed, and used. - @stanine #bib12

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Possibly my favourite thing today. RT @jmaxsfu: OLPC BookBerry Pi portable, solar-powered book server. Whoa. #bib12

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#BiB12 Now back, with @stanine of @inkling, a 3-year-old startup here in San Francisco, about 100 people. Speaking today ondiscovery.

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#bib12 Bookberry Pi: OLPC devs built light-weight bookserver based on Internet Archive, SD card, Raspberry Pi cc/@Raspberry_Pi @adafruit

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Battery powered? Solar powered? Solar charged? Have I mashed up my power details from this morning? #bib12

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Thanks for the interesting tweets and questions: #bib12. Very glad my talk is done. Now I can lower my shoulders and breath.

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OLPC BookBerry Pi portable, solar-powered book server. Whoa. #bib12

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Ummmmm, THIS IS AMAZING. #bib12 Serving books in a TINY SERVER that is BATTERY POWERED. #bookberrypie

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#BiB12 OLPC speaker holding up a Raspberry Pi - the Bookberry Pi! Interesting concept.



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Bookberry Pi #BiB12

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#BiB12 Now back, with @Stanine of @Inkling speaking on "The Death of the Ten Dollar Text File." stream: http://ow.ly/eKnf3 #TOCcon

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An afternoon of authoring tools about to kick off in the warm afternoon glow of the Internet Archive #bib12

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Those guys rock! #bib12

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@NickRuffilo Lunch!!! #bib12




I want to watch #bib12 but it seems that a folk band has taken the stage in hostage! :D (nice music by the way)

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Hey #bib12, wasn't the train robbed last break?

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#bib12 the dualing guitar/eukalele make me think of the "happier than ghalleger at a farmer's market" commercials

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@NickRuffilo And you know what you can do with your opportunity cost. ;) #bib12







@NickRuffilo Even visionaries need feeding. Also! It's Middle Eastern food. #hummus! #bib12




@NickRuffilo Because we are at lunch. #bib12




#bib12 feed is down. Anyone know why (hows pretty colors then OFFLINE centered on screen)

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22h writers' web @writers_web

@blaine thank YOU for your inspiring words! #bib12



22h Tim McCormick @tmccormick

idea: #Safetexting / Voice Texting: txt by saying letters - precise, robust, safe, hands- and eyes-free while driving, walking, etc.#bib12



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22h Peter Turner @PeterTurner

@bbirdiman Did you get a chance to check out #bib12? Video to come. @ljndawson



22h susan neuhaus @neustudio

RT @billmccoy: #BiB12 @lizcastro "with my EPUB book I created a community" - no doubt about that! and many thanks forit!! #eprdctn

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following #bib12 after #sgdl (france) is at the same time: wonderful and depressing. Huge creativity gap.

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22h Shannon @mazarines

All that & @mkirschenbaum isn't there? MT @footage: #bib12 resolves back to a discourse we never had on word processing &its possibilities

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You #BiB12 & #eprdctn with your modrun ideas! Thinking of the cust. exp. w/ e-book before print. What color is the sky in yourworld? :)

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22h Pubfluence.Info @aramanc

RT @footage Lunch. #bib12 pic.twitter.com/KtmqGHMc Nice lunch. #cold&darkhereintheik



22h Pubfluence.Info @aramanc

Brilliant two days following all the presentations at #bib12 from the UK. More to come & time for another glass of NZ CloudyBay me thinks.

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Пока @vilianov в Пало-Альто кормят шоколадом в очереди за Surface, на #bib12 в Сан-Франциско кормят national am.couisin - фалафель+хумус ;)

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22h Rick Prelinger @footage

Lunch. #bib12 pic.twitter.com/skKX5Yk4






Appreciate lifestream from #BIB12 but it's hard to fit it together with domestic chores and sleep. Missed important sessions againtoday!

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22h One Laptop per Child @OLPC

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson (co-founder of @OLPC) "The screen is the central component of thesedevices today"

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22h OLPC MéXicO @OLPC_MeXicO

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson (co-founder of @OLPC) "The screen is the central component of thesedevices today"

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22h Vook @vooktv

Internet Archive has penultimate John Burdett Bangkok book sitting on table. Book serendipity you still can't experience indigital. #bib12

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Another musical interlude, 'Moon from Kentucky' at #bib12. I'm harmonising from NZ. You think of everything. @naypinya@KatMeyer

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22h Charlotte Abbott @charabbott

RT @kindoma: Fascinating example of a new form of digital fiction from Kate Pullinger: http://www.digitalfiction.com.uk/prototype #bib12

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#BiB12 Lunch now, breaking until 1:30pPT / 4:30pET -- join us afterward for more.

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22h kindoma @kindoma

Fascinating example of a new form of digital fiction from Kate Pullinger: http://www.digitalfiction.com.uk/prototype #bib12

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@jmaxsfu No, agreed. It's different and awesome, but different experience and how it's different #bib12






.@KAtePullinger questions whether it's her responsibility to archive her work. Very interesting question re: art. #bib12

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Reflecting on Nick Montfort's #nisoebooks point "In vid games, you choose door to go through in books you get to choose door'scolor" #bib12

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#BiB12 #author @katepullinger - Our Stuff and Our Things, a digital fiction project. She's taking questions now.

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I really enjoyed @katepullinger's presentation. Something different. #bib12

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Publishers, there are authors thinking trade publishers can do a lot for their digital projects @katepullinger #bib12 http://bit.ly/Se4Tmg

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Wow, I hope @katepullinger shares the link to the prototype of Duel with us. I want to see how it goes! #bib12

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@jmaxsfu Yeah, I thought it was beautiful. @tac_niso #bib12 Just different.




@TAC_NISO Really? I find it super evocative. #bib12




Not sure about a whole book like this, but great for a trailer @katepullinger #bib12

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23h bowerbird @bbirdiman

@hughmcguire @liza @abdelazer #bib2012 #bib12 -- the "amazing" part is that if you're making an audio-recording, make_that,_ not an e-book.




RT @indiamos: “You can’t do the lowest common denominator and expect to be able to support your brand.” - Nancy Ruenzel,@Peachpit #BiB12

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I am totally excited about @KatePullinger 's rich media storytelling. #travel #authors take note. http://ow.ly/eNPtF #BIB12

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#BiB12 #author @katepullinger is showing us a trailer ...

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.@KatePullinger's magic, live at #bib12

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As cool as this demo is, It's worth considering the loss of imagination necessary to engage with multimedia versus text. #bib12

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Loving prototyp. Simple combination of eery sounds, simple visuals, minimal text. Atmosphere excellent! Well done@katepullinger #bib12

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"Spreadable media" ...breaking books out of their silos # containerlesscontent #BiB12 @KatePullinger

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#BiB12 @KatePullinger -- here is her page meant to explain her digital fiction to publishers: http://ow.ly/eNPtF

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Kate Pullinger trying mainstream publisher although she could easily self-publish it. Publishers, sign her up!! #bib12

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23h Esben M. Nielsen @esbenmn

Authors helping publishers understanding them and their work #finally #bib12 #thereisstillhope

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“Seems kind of a weird thing for a writer to have to create a website to explain my project to publishers”—@katepullinger at#bib12 mmm hm.

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23h Editora con carrito @editora

Mientras @jaumebalmes aprende y se inspira en #BiB12 yo he dejado el streaming por mi preocupación actual más mundana:encontrar autoescuela

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#authors run over to http://bit.ly/RnP62a to see @KatePullinger 's digital storytelling. Also her home page http://bit.ly/PVg4kC #BIB12

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger has created a web page to help #publishers grasp her digital fiction. (Flight Paths, LandingGear, Duel).

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.@katepullinger created a website to try and educate publishers about her digital work! #bib12

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Newest project: novel at its heart (Landing Gear); digital fiction epilogue. Website created to help publishers to understand proj.#bib12

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger "What would it take to #publish a book to make the audience talk back" as happened in herdigi-fiction?

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@micycle Don't make me go to People or National Enquirer to lower my intelligence even MORE, so I can make room for more



smarts. #bib12




#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger speaks of the silo effect in books, the way they aren't "spreadable," as digital fiction is.

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"as a book, it's over" @katepullinger #bib12 "How do you break books like that out of these silos?"

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Ah also influenced by Henry Jenkins and @hughmcguire. YES!!! This all speaks to my very interests (@katepullinger #bib12

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#BiB12 @KatePullinger "Spreadable media," she sees as a key to success in digital fiction, but "how to make my #books morespreadable?"

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"Under the influence of Henry Jenkins and Hugh McGuire" re spreadable media - @katePullinger #bib12

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger "Will my book #publisher ever be interested in my digital fiction?" @R_Nash counseled herit's not possible.

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@jmaxsfu Yes, I have been hopping over to Gawker b/c I need to leak a little intelligence out of my brain periodically to makeroom. #bib12



23h Peachpit @Peachpit

RT @selfpubbootcamp: @Peachpit offers EPUB MOBI PDF all for the price of one Ruenzel #BIB12

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Lunch is soon. Maybe there will be wine. RT @ljndawson: My brain is full. #bib12

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Ooh, can't miss this one. Kate Pullinger. The sweet spot: Digital trade publishing, experimentation, community #bib12

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Listening to author @katepullinger at #BIB12 her creative storytelling written, digital - inspiring! @motoSFO@HorizonsUnlimit

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger has been working to pull together the trade publishing and "digital fiction" parts of her career.

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23h Peachpit @Peachpit

Glad you liked it! =) We'll be sure to let her know! RT @arhomberg: @Peachpit that was an impressive #BiB12 presentation byNancy!

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23h Nicole Hennig @nic221



#bib12 is of interest to the students in my Book as iPad App course, thanks! http://j.mp/NySfxR Our reading list: http://j.mp/RRxCL1

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RT @ashfeldt: @katepullinger @micycle so looks like you are in the church of technology #bib12 http://img.ly/oXhIkatepullinger … [Indeed we are!]

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@javiercelaya y si no me paso, también hay "De InDesign CS 5.5 a EPUB y Kindle" :) http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=6FHNX_LIVE&page=SCSS55&lang=es … #bib12

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My brain is full. #bib12

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23h woop.ie @makewoopie

Loving poeti.ca & looking forward to hopefully being able to incorporate it as an editing tool for Woopie publishers #bib12

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RT @jmaxsfu: If you could effectively link in and amongst ebooks, @lizcastro's vision would be complete #bib12 [We couldhelp with that!]

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23h Lane Ashfeldt @Ashfeldt

@katepullinger @micycle so looks like you are in the church of technology #bib12 http://img.ly/oXhIkatepullinger …




Vandalism during 1M Penguin group book by user "bananaman" turning all nouns into "banana" @KatePullinger http://ow.ly/eNOiz #BiB12

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#BiB12 @KatePullinger "Inanimate Alice" is another digital fiction project: "In 2009, its audience began to talk back to me."

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RT @dsearls: Appreciate @brianoleary citing Intention Economy http://amzn.to/UHO8BS #bib12 His text: http://bit.ly/RL6rl5 HT @tac_niso #vrm






At the Books in Browsers 12 at the Internet Archive. #bib12 pic.twitter.com/tKuLXJ8i




Oh digital fiction, my favourite. Collaborative writing, creative vandalism, unbounded! #BiB12 Kate Pullingerhttp://www.katepullinger.com

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Hazards of collaborative publishing: banana man might log in and change all nouns to the word banana #bib12

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Here's @katepullinger on stage at #bib12 http://img.ly/oXhI

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Sadly, ”A Million Penguins” has been inhabited by spam ads of the garden variety. http://bit.ly/SG32Ec #bib12

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Have to love challenges of community involvement: @katepullinger describing "BananaMan" who changed every noun to"banana" on site #bib12

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Banana. Heh. #bib12

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"We had a lot of debates about whether to block bananaman because we were rather entertained by him" @katepullinger #bib12

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger "Penguin wanted to ask the question, 'Can a community write a novel." This was Flight Paths.

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Kate Pullinger says they asked the question, "Can a community write a novel?" and the result is Flight Paths: A Networked Novel.#bib12

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Reference: http://bit.ly/SG2qP8 — a networked novel. #bib12

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23h Ricky Wong @kinwong

The person who did the 1M Penguins is speaking at #bib12!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_fiction#A_Million_Penguins …

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger Text is always central to her work, she says, though the hybrid brings in other elements.

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#BiB12 #author @KatePullinger has "been heavily involved in new forms of literature, 'digital fiction,' hybrid forms, to tell astory."

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Aside: would definitely recommend @katepullinger's book The MIstress of Nothing... it's excellent. #bib12

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23h Rick Prelinger @footage

.@KatePullinger on how her 15-year old son got the hang of a turntable but didn't realize for a day that he could turn record over#bib12

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@katepullinger up now, talking about authorship in digital world. #bib12

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Taking a break now. Tweet from #bib12 asking for recs for food reminded me that I need some. Back later.

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So true! RT @kevingashley Depressing we still need to design products for device/platform. So much of last 30 yrs spentavoiding this #bib12

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23h Kevin Ashley @kevingashley

@TAC_NISO It's depressing that we still need to design products for device/platform. So much of last 30 years spent avoidingthis #bib12




#BiB12 Kate Pullinger now on stage http://www.katepullinger.com

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Ron Hogan addresses the issue of discoverability... #bib12

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Ron Hogan's main purpose: a way to share books and writers with audience. Connection. (Particular tech a means to an end)#bib12

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23h Ned Rote @BookishNed

We need to simplify between books and books as apps. #bib12

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#BiB12 @RonHogan of http://Beatrice.com "It's about sharing the #books and #writers I'm most passionate about, on theInternet."

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Versión en castellano de libro "Creación de eBooks en formato EPUB" de @lizcastro http://bit.ly/RkFDu2 #BiB12

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Ron Hogan thinking of approaching Publishers to promote their authors in this way. Different business models, experimentation#bib12

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#BiB12 Looking for recommendations asap for drinks/snacks/food between 149 New Montgomery and 1600 Post San Francisco.Ideas?

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#BiB12 @RonHogan of http://Beatrice.com bundles interview transcripts and video clips from interviews with authors. Bundlespriced $2.99.

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Ron Hogan Initial issue in iBookstore was free, and now selling new issue for small amount. #bib12

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Tree of nodes/book structure analysis won't always work, some works won't fit or are too complex, but it's a place to start. #bib12

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+1 RT @jmaxsfu: @micycle True. Fundamental ?? is where & in what ways new opportunities outweigh old costs. It changesover time. #bib12

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@TheFutureBook will FutureBook conference be published, too' a la #BiB12 ;)

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Ron Hogan Used iBook author instead of website. Lost audience capture in some ways, but able to gain in other ways. #bib12

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Awesome use of iBook author to make enhanced ebooks with author interviews @ronhogan #beatrice #bib12

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#BiB12 @RonHogan of http://Beatrice.com - He used @Kickstarter to raise funds for developing an app approach. Took it toiBooks.

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Print/PDF/EPUB/Device/Print: Need to work out what the book's structure is - tree of nodes, how to present on each platform.#bib12



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RT @arhomberg: Peachpit now FIRST designs Ebook, then print book WOW #bib12 the future is now

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@TAC_NISO @micycle True. Fundamental question is where and in what ways new opportunities outweigh old costs. It changesover time. #bib12




@saybooks I think they'll put up the videos later… #bib12




Ron Hogan. Question was how to make a business by engaging readers and writers. Looked outside the website idea #bib12

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RT @arhomberg: Peachpit now FIRST designs Ebook, then print book WOW #bib12 the future is now

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#BiB12 @RonHogan of http://Beatrice.com . To save time, he changed Beatrice to a blog format (from Q&As primarily) butliked interviews.

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@micycle Short term fix to get content on specific devices, just causes some challenges down the line (fine if you have to, but...)#bib12




#BiB12 @RonHogan of http://Beatrice.com - started it in 1995, working in a bookstore. He'd intvu #authors on book tours.(Remember those?)

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@ronhogan discovering that blogging is more time-intensive than regular website maintenance. #bib12

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Ron Hogan on now. (http://Beatrice.com one of the earliest literary websites where readers and writers could interact) #bib12

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@javiercelaya Gracias! Por cierto, hay versión de EPUB Straight to the Point ahora en castellano:http://www.anayamultimedia.es/cgigeneral/ficha.pl?id_sello_editorial_web=23&codigo_comercial=2315732 … #bib12




@micycle My feeling is that this is 1 of the reasons where @jmaxsfu presentation runs into challenges in some instances (sorryJohn) #bib12




@ronhogan talking about http://Beatrice.com . On the web since 1995. #bib12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel finishes up now and we're setting up for @RonHogan of http://Beatrice.com Stream: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ

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RT @arhomberg: @peachpit that was an impressive #BiB12 presentation by Nancy! [yes! thanks, Nancy!]

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@micycle Absolutely!!! Couldn't agree more, especially for books where design is critical element of experience #bib12




@TAC_NISO All true. But we have to find ways not to throw out the beautiful design baby with the per device bathwater #bib12




@peachpit that was an impressive #BiB12 presentation by Nancy!

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@lizcastro Yeah! Buyers of your miniguides could purchase the bits they need from the big book - w direct links between thebooks too #bib12



23h Vook @vooktv

Peachpit has APIs for developers. Check 'em out: http://developer.pearson.com/api/peachpit-visual-quickstart-guides-api/apimethod/get-article-0/190/overview … #bib12

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Cool! Pearson Tech exposing their api to developers in highly structured, tagged way #bib12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press shows us examples now. One is @LizCastro's HTML5 and CSS3 sold per-chapter.http://ow.ly/eNLfV




FYI quite a number of @lizcastro's books are in http://creativeedge.com (and http://safaribooksonline.com ) #bib12

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23h Jennifer Omner @JenniferOmner

Nancy Ruenzel of Peachpit Press: For best ebook reading experience they recommend font, font size, mode. How many see that?#bib12

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Interested in the latest book technology? Livestream of Books in Browsers conference is here: http://ht.ly/eNKVk (via@anna_cn) #bib12

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Lesson #5 Nancy Ruenzel: QA is equally important for digital. #bib12 (Yep. Pity it took so long for publishers to realise this)

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Device-specific production problems: preservation, future-proof redesign costs, inefficient production, device dependency #bib12

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23h Ned Rote @BookishNed



Build-it-once is taking a hit. There should be a happy medium. #bib12 #reeducation

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press - Lesson Five: QA (quality assurance) is important. (Example: How pullquotes workon an e-page.)

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“QA matters.” —Nancy Ruenzel / @peachpit — “We had to build a whole new guideline for proofing [ebooks.]” #bib12

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23h India @indiamos

“QA matters.” @peachpit were trusting conversion house to QA files; had to build in their own proofing phase, with ownguidelines. #BiB12

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#BiB12 it seems that sometimes design/appearance is being considered more important than being able to READ a title

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If you are interested in the latest book technology - livestream of Books in Browsers conference is here: http://ht.ly/eNKVk Tag is#bib12

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23h Vook @vooktv

Readers control eBook experience. Why it's crucial to start w/ content, make sure it goes cross device. Also#whydesignershateeBooks #bib12

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Spanish big 3 too RT @arhomberg: Ah #BiB12 confirms: BIG 6 supply Amazon EBooks as ePubs and Amazon itselftransmogrifies to .mobi

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press "Lesson Four" -- they're trying to instruct the reader on the optimal settings for eachtitle.

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So need to guide the authors to the best viewing experience. Recommend, but don't force it #bib12



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"Best viewed in Netscape 3" #bib12

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23h Stefan Glaenzer @StefanGlaenzer

My boys "@dslessing: wf love 2 c my girls creative writing class use poeti.ca to combine traditional editing in onlinecollaboration #bib12"

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Such a warm audience. Your encouraging faces pulled me through my crazy nervousness. Thanks for kind words and attention.#bib12

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Lesson #4 Nancy Ruenzel: Readers design their own experience #bib12

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Нэнси Рюнцель из Pearson/Peachpit: 35% продаж в цифре. Верстают сачала в цифре, потом для печати #BiB12

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“It’s a very complicated world for readers—too many formats. Too complicated.” Truth. #bib12

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23h Kathryn @concisekathryn

"it's a complicated world for the average reader" #bib12

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23h Daniel Buchner @csuwldcat

I just gave a talk at #BiB12 on an older Mac and I'm a Windows guy - w/o 2 finger right click, I couldn't find View Source, hilarityensued.

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press developed info-graphic instructions for each format and putting them everywhere forreaders to find.

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23h Vook @vooktv

We're intermittently, spasmodically live tweeting from excellent Books in Browsers in SF. Live stream it here! http://oreil.ly/QGlg98 #bib12

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@TAC_NISO Exactly. I worry about this. #bib12




RT @arhomberg: Peachpit now FIRST designs Ebook, then print book WOW #bib12 the future is now =>Kudos to @peachpit

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel "Lesson Three: Show and Tell, then Show and Tell." Initially, they got 30% of buyers complaining aboutusing formats.

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23h Tobias Buckell @tobiasbuckell



Eww RT @arhomberg: Ah #BiB12 confirms what I always suspected, BIG 6 supply Amazon EBooks as ePubs and Amazonitself transmogrifies to .mobi

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“Now we think about the ebook experience before we think about the print.” —Nancy Ruenzel (@peachpit) #bib12

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23h Peter Richardson @meetar

At #bib12, @pearson recounts recapitulating "mobile first" while publishing books. Same problem = same solution

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Nancy Ruenzel: Now ebook design comes before print. Because numerous distribution channels require different requirements.#bib12

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23h Vook @vooktv

Content comes first at Peachpit, then devices. It's excellent strategy, echoes @arockely #bib12

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Peachpit now FIRST designs Ebook, then print book WOW #bib12 the future is now

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(Know this is reality today, but) Designing product for the device creates so many problems down the road #bib12

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Nancy Ruenzel talking about how EPUB has moved to the first position in production process, before print. Right on! #BiB12

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23h India @indiamos

“We think about the e-book experience & the customer experience with that e-book before we think about print.” —NancyRuenzel #BiB12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel "In the old days (5 years ago), we would think print book, then e-. Now, the #ebook goes to the front ofthe line."

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I know that this is necessary, but it is absolutely not efficient #standards #bib12

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23h Vook @vooktv

@selfpubbootcamp Absolutely I'm Matt and I am here. You can just text me at 718 916 0953. #andihaveputmyphoneontwiitter#bib12




Having to do many different production processes to redesign for screen vs print vs other platforms is NOT a good idea#standards #bib12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel shows us the difference in a fixed-layout EPUB page with image and a redesign of the same page for PDF.

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23h Mike Lee @curiouslee



Cool! @sameerverma just walked in with his Bookberry Pi ebook server! #bib12 http://flic.kr/p/do2NrH




@lizcastro @anna_cn @valobox #bib12 real time deal!




La editorial @Peachpit Press de Pearson ofrece a los lectores todos los formatos (Mobi, ePub y PDF) de sus libros. Excelenteservicio #bib12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel shows us a parallel layout they did for a photography book (parallel to the page layout) for an illustratedtitle.

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23h India @indiamos

Majority of @peachpit's creative professional audience read their e-books on the iPad. #BiB12

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23h Vook @vooktv

Majority of creative professionals read on the iPad says Peachpit. Not Kindle, etc. #bib12

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Nancy Ruenzel says you can't produce the lowest common denominator (for ebks) and support the value of your brand. #bib12

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Lesson #2 Nancy Ruenzel: Have to think outside the page. As she says 'Stupidly obvious now, but then the page was sacrosant'True #bib12

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23h India @indiamos

“You can’t do the lowest common denominator [in e-production] and expect to be able to support your brand.” —Nancy Ruenzel,@peachpit #BiB12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press "Lesson Two - You can't do the lowest common denominator - you have to linkoutside the page."

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23h Vook @vooktv

Peachpit finds that ePub purchasers need all three different formats -- ePub, mobi, PDF. I'll +1 that. #bib12

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Lesson #1 from Nancy Ruenzel: One size doesn't fit all. #bib12

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press "Lesson One - One size doesn't fit all." She refers to "three flavors" - EPUB, MOBI,PDF.

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23h India @indiamos

How many pub professionals does it take to make e-book of a design title? 3: 1 to do it, one each to hold down designer & author.#BiB12

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It takes 3 designers to publish design books: one to do the work, one to restrain the author and one to restrain the designer #BiB12

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23h Vook @vooktv

Peachpit's battle scars similar to what we know well in eBooks/ePub. "Learning through suffering" one of my themes too! #bib12

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#BiB12 apparently authors and designers don't understand the 'limitations' of epub (pearson)

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Tech, authors and creative designers work together. (Yes, this is the real pain point for many publishers.) #bib12 Nancy Ruenzel

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It seems like it could really go together, right? RT @anna_cn: Really want to have @lizcastro's books on @valobox! #bib12

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+1 RT @jmaxsfu: If you could effectively link in and amongst ebooks, @lizcastro's vision would be complete #bib12

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Nancy Ruenzel. They need to scale, so discipline and efficiency important. 500 books and other digital per year #bib12

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35% of Peachpit sales (Pearson imprint) are EBooks #BiB12

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press "We're never too old to learn something really stupid" (Asin stupidly obvious)

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@ePubPupil Yes! You can do it. That's the lesson of the web. #bib12


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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press "We publish about 500 #ebooks a year." (Pearson Technology Group). 35% of salesas #ebook alone.

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#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press "We're never too old to learn something really stupid." (As in stupidly obvious.)

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Nancy Ruenzel of Pearson, Peachpit talking about Lessons from ebook foundry' #bib12

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23h Raymond Yee @rdhyee

.@lizcastro has inspired me to think about writing modular ebook updates to my own mashup book. #BiB12

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#BiB12 pearson on stage



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#BiB12 is back now, and Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press is up, to talk to us on "Lessons from the ebook foundry."

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Wakey, wakey NZ. Cutting edge publishing conference being livestreamed. Books in Browsers http://toc.oreilly.com #bib12

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I wonder how many #BiB12 brought cushions to sit on. Those benches look pretty hard

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@julietalionetti Thanks much for the tweet, wish you were here with us at #BiB12!



23h One Laptop per Child @OLPC



RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi shows us the XO, which upped screen power efficiency.

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23h Peter Richardson @meetar

#bib12 musical interlude: "The Coming Storm" followed by: "This is a song I wrote for our coffee machine."

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23h OLPC MéXicO @OLPC_MeXicO

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi shows us the XO, which upped screen power efficiency.

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Livestreaming from #bib12 means we can all be part of the United Nations of Digital Publishing. Love it! @KatMeyerhttp://toc.oreilly.com/

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26 Oct epublishing @epublishing

toc: Day two of #BiB12 has begun. Tune in here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon http://ow.ly/2sSYg6

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26 Oct Porter Anderson @Porter_Anderson

#BiB12 Nancy Ruenzel of @Peachpit Press will be up next, speaking on: "Lessons from the ebook foundry."

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#BiB12 Here is the preso we saw from @csuwldcat of @Mozilla on “Custom Elements and <book /> – Returning the Web toAuthorship"

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26 Oct Say Books @saybooks

Very Nashville:) Lost the video sadly #bib12

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26 Oct Ron Hogan @RonHogan

FUN FACT: My #bib12 talk is about to start! I'm in the 2:30pm EDT/11:30 am PDT block, livestreamed at: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ




Livestreaming back on at #bib12. Enjoy seeing the BTS footage. And yay I see a guitar. Entertainment too!

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#BiB12-goers break reading: @JaneFriedman's essay today from #Berlin's @LitFlow has some bearing on @Gunzalis' talk:http://ow.ly/eNHF6

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26 Oct Editora con carrito @editora

Estoy viendo el streaming del #BiB12 (están en el descanso) a ver si veo a @jaumebalmes por ahí sentado, pero no...http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc



26 Oct Ania Wieckowski @agwieckowski

RT @ljndawson: YES! RT @jmaxsfu: If you could effectively link in and amongst ebooks, @lizcastro's vision would becomplete #bib12

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26 Oct William Donohue @wdonohue

Self pubs/Trad pubs who pay attention to their customers/analytics can learn same lessons as @LizCastro - need to see value,invest. #bib12

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26 Oct Frances Duncan @frangrit

Oh, @lizcastro, do keep spending time with those butterflies! Lovely image. (Listening online from the Berkshires. Hi! Greattalk.) #bib12

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It's a pity I came late to @lizcastro's talk at #bib12. I love a good narrative combined with useful info. (Early Sat morning here inNZ!)

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#BiB12 @LizCastro is finishing her talk now ("follow a random car" she says), and we're in a 15-minute break. Back 11:30aPT /2:30pET

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26 Oct Todd Carpenter @TAC_NISO

RT @jmaxsfu: If you could effectively link in and amongst ebooks, @lizcastro's vision would be complete #bib12 => No smalltask

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26 Oct Anna Lewis @anna_cn

Really want to have @lizcastro's books on @valobox! #bib12



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26 Oct ljndawson @ljndawson

YES!!!!! RT @jmaxsfu: If you could effectively link in and amongst ebooks, @lizcastro's vision would be complete #bib12

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From Douglas Adams to Barcelona to modular ebooks to monarch butterflies. #bib12 @lizcastro

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26 Oct john maxwell @jmaxsfu

If you could effectively link in and amongst ebooks, @lizcastro's vision would be complete #bib12

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26 Oct Kate Pullinger @katepullinger

@lizcastro explains her publishing journey from books to modular ebooks - very clear and interesting. #bib12

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#BiB12 @LizCastro packages #ebooks around topics but sees some customers confused by the "modules," the standalonesupplemental books.

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26 Oct Max Fenton @maxfenton

,@lizcastro is telling a terrific story about the evolution of books from desktop publishing to modular ebooks. #bib12

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26 Oct Mozilla Labs @mozlabs

Daniel Buchner @csuwldcat from Mozilla shows http://x-tags.org aka Web Components now - at #BiB12 - livestream:http://bit.ly/VNBB1r



26 Oct Ben Firshman @bfirsh

.@blaine and @maureen just presented it at #bib12 (very excited!)

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26 Oct Michael Kowalski @micycle

Then can do bundling & upsells - nice #bib12 #modularpublishingftw

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RT @agwieckowski: Modular ebooks solve the problem sof updates, of narrow topics, downward pricing forces, bundling, etc -@lizcastro #bib12

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Live on #bib12 now: @lizcastro telling a good story about building a digital business and a community livestream:http://toc.oreilly.com/

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26 Oct Iris Amelia @ePubPupil

.@lizcastro's talk is tempting me to throw myself into the ring & see what happens (putting my digital content out there for sale)#bib12

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Yes! Modular ebooks solve the problem sof updates, of narrow topics, downward pricing forces, bundling, etc. - @lizcastro#bib12

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26 Oct Sabrina Ricci @sabsky

"Modular ebooks solve the issue of pricing" #bib12 @lizcastro



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#BiB12 @LizCastro describes the economy of bundle-able modular books to supplement a larger work. Such as: http://ow.ly/eNGGr




.@lizcastro publishes updates as separate miniguides rather than updating original - think this is a good model for lots of content#bib12

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26 Oct Jennifer Omner @JenniferOmner

@lizcastro "...publish your ideas with no gatekeepers..." Love your talk and learning about your background! #bib12

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#BiB12 @LizCastro Working with Matthew Tree's Barcelona, Catalonia ( http://ow.ly/eNGqL ) helped Liz get to POD on hernext books.






#bib12 @LizCastro discovering new models for her own work, driven by her own needs, needs of her publishers, needs of heraudience.

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26 Oct Javier Celaya @javiercelaya

Si quieres publicar un ebook en formato ePub, te recomiendo leer "Epub straight to the point" de @lizcastro http://bit.ly/Y45704 #BiB12

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26 Oct ana @atelier7_ana

Liz is intruiging @LizCastro #bib12

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Alternative to a revised edition: a miniguide that is just the update. Then orig isn't out of date. Amazingly successful - @lizcastro#bib12

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26 Oct Sara Hunt @SarabandBooks

Live on the #BiB12 streaming now: @LizCastro

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26 Oct Bill McCoy @billmccoy

#BiB12 @lizcastro "with my EPUB book I created a community" - no doubt about that! and many thanks for it!! #eprdctn

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#BiB12 @LizCastro asked permission to sell her EPUB Straight to the Point online, "and I kind of created a community."http://ow.ly/eNFYY

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26 Oct Bobby @bobtung

RT @rdhyee: RT @lizcastro: Need the URL for the EPUB Suite Test Suite @BillMcCoy #epub3 #readium #bib12

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I need to be better about embracing the new destination when I'm handed a detour. (Inspired by @lizcastro at #bib12)

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Thinking that being able to bolt custom bits onto HTML may lead to the same multiplying-schema jungle that XML has wanderedinto. #bib12

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26 Oct Charlotte Abbott @charabbott

RT @katepullinger: #bib12 format is so good, single stream, short talks, lots of breaks & food, great speakers. @naypinya +@KatMeyer #bib12

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#BiB12 @lizcastro's HTML for the World Wide Web became a "golden limousine" of endless revisions. http://ow.ly/eNFNx



26 Oct Toolbelt @ToolbeIt

@TAC_NISO Not explained as such, no. But theoretically they could be presented in a transparent way. #bib12




RT @agwieckowski Yay, Visual QuickStart! How I first learned HTML in the '90s, thanks to @lizcastro #bib12 < me too!

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26 Oct Mike Lee @curiouslee

Morning session at Books in Browsers #bib12 http://flic.kr/p/do2pE3



26 Oct Владимир Харитонов @v_x

Mozilla предлагает использовать web components для заворачивания книг в вебе. <book>book</book>. Диковато. #BiB12

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26 Oct Carissa @CWhoa

Really neat to hear @lizcastro speaking about publishing and tech in Spain, working in 2 languages. #BiB12

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Yay, Visual QuickStart! How I first learned HTML in the '90s, thanks to @lizcastro #bib12

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#BiB12 @lizcastro Working on "La Biblia del Macintosh" was "where I learned that books are really heavy and a pain to carryaround."

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26 Oct widescript @widescript

Alas we couldn't make it to #BiB12 - following closely through Twitter

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26 Oct Jaume Balmes @jaumebalmes

I think i'm the only catalan person in this room, the people @lizcastro is talking about :$ #BiB12

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26 Oct BiblioCrunch @BiblioCrunch

woot woot! Yahoo @lizcastro! #bib12

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@lizcastro is just fascinating. And she tells a damn good story. #bib12

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26 Oct Tim McCormick @tmccormick

"I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be." --Douglas Adams. quoted by@lizcastro #bib12



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RT @grimmelm: CC: "Ebook medium on its own is inconsistent with the requirements of research." #inrebooks #bib12

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#BiB12 @LizCastro reads from The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams: http://ow.ly/eNF0w




@lizcastro explaining her journey - how Catalan and ebooks converge. #bib12

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I think that relying on Douglas Adams for life advice is a good idea. Favorite take-away from #bib12 @lizcastro

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26 Oct Editora con carrito @editora



RT @jaumebalmes: BTW i'm saving my favorite links from #BiB12 stage at Delicious: http://bitly.com/TH718e

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26 Oct havi hoffman @freshelectrons

.@csuwldcat Good show presenting Web Components aka http://x-tags.org at #BiB12 - recording available soon!

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26 Oct Jason Allen Ashlock @jasonashlock

#bib12 and #inrebooks happening simultaneously, making it difficult to do anything besides favorite tweets.

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#BiB12 @LizCastro Zen* and the art of the modular book | "There's an asterisk in the title because I don't really know what zenis."

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Interesante reflexión de @csuwldcat sobre la necesidad de democratizar la creación online de contenidos enriquecidos #BiB12

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26 Oct Plympton @plympton

Amazing new "x tags" in HTML will let you create a book that can flip pages in a browser http://bit.ly/S0QeY7 . #bib12

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#BiB12 @csuwldcat of @Mozilla has done some Q&A, and now @LizCastro is up, on "Zen* and the art of the modular book."

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Yay, @lizcastro on at #bib12

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Web Components may provide some encapsulation into web development... not a bad idea. http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/ … #bib12

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Not terribly convinced by Web Components. Not sure solves any problem that js libs aren't already solving #bib12

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"Shims" and "polyfills" are really horrible metaphors, because the vehicles themselves are obscure/ambiguous. #bib12

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+1 RT @markarms: Congrats to @blaine on the new online editing tool http://Poetica.com #BiB12

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26 Oct Mark Armstrong @markarms

Congrats to @blaine on the new online editing tool http://Poetica.com #BiB12

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26 Oct India @indiamos

Daniel Buchner's demo: http://is.gd/NNJTRb #BiB12 View source. I could live without the page-turn animation…

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The format for #bib12 is so good, single stream, short talks, lots of breaks, lots of food, great range of speakers. @naypinya +@KatMeyer



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26 Oct VitalSource @vitalsource

Thanks to Bill McCoy of IDPF for the shout out at #BIB12 on EPUB3

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#BiB12 @csuwldcat of @Mozilla sees X-Tag ease as a democratizer that will return the web to pre-rich-content simplicity.

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Some detail on Web Components: http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/ … #bib12

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@TAC_NISO This might be a dumb question, but what's the difference between this & XML? Following specific DTDs? #bib12






+1 RT @jmaxsfu: Adding new tags to HTML reminds me of the 1990s. Can't shake the memory of <blink> #bib12

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#BiB12 @csuwldcat of @Mozilla "The X-Tag is available to use today...everything is baked into the tag. A map tag. One tag."

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Web components democratize the creation of rich media, allowing us to use our own html tags and still be understood!@csuwldcat #bib12

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I am not sure that the casual user will understand that value of any <X-tags> #bib12

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26 Oct Raymond Yee @rdhyee

https://air.mozilla.org/x-tags/ -- web components presentation by Mozilla #BiB12

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26 Oct Martha Rotter @martharotter

One of the coolest products I learned about at #bib12 is Kindoma -http://kindoma.com Wanted this for my parents for a longtime.

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26 Oct Katherine Fletcher @kefletcher

#BiB12 Daniel Buchner @mozilla working w google to make custom HTML elements a reality: "bringing the nouns from yourlife into the browser"

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26 Oct Susan Doerr @susanmpls

RT @rdhyee Interesting...just learning about web components for the first time: http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/ …#bib12

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Adding new tags to HTML reminds me of the 1990s. Can't shake the memory of <blink> #bib12

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26 Oct Jennifer 8. Lee @jenny8lee

Huge news for publishers. HTML tags that let you declare something is a "book" or a "map", presentation by @csuwldcat of@Mozilla at #bib12



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I wonder how he'll address the "nobody will learn your markup" mantra that's been repeated this week #bib12

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Huge news for publishers. HTML tags that let you declare something is a "book" or a "map", presentation by @csuwldcat of@Mozilla at #bib12

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import __future__ #bib12

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@TAC_NISO Oh, absolutely. I think they go hand-in-hand. #bib12






More tags? what about developing standards? only for Firefox? Sony Betacam again? I think i'm not understanding that Mozillaguy #BiB12

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26 Oct Bilbary @bilbary

#BiB12 a lot of the ideas presented here are great - but the problem is that it needs content providers to USE them - will thathappen?

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@TAC_NISO I don't know - I think the effective ones will win out. You can always "view source" and see what u like. #bib12




Really appreciate democratizing experience perspective, but there are skills & value that publishers (& libraries) add to theprocess #bib12

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Interesting...just learning about web components for the first time: http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/ … #BiB12

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Readium can support rich fixed as well as flowing content. http://redium.org by @BillMcCoy of IDPF of #bib12

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@billmccoy My mistake, thanks for the correction! Great job, by the way #epub3 #bib12 @lizcastro




"We need to return authorship to the web," says @csuwldcat, that we need tools for those w/o deep tech skills. #bib12

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+1 RT @jmaxsfu: Not sure about this "zero knowledge" claim. #bib12

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#BiB12 mozilla want to build a standard set of web components to 'democratize' rich content creation



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Not sure about this "zero knowledge" claim. #bib12

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hmm, tagging for everyone, sounds good, but I'm guessing that implementation will be far too messy to be really useful #bib12

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#BiB12 @csuwldcat of @Mozilla <x-authorship> -- A more powerful set of HTML tags democratizes rich content creation.

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26 Oct Fran Toolan @ftoolan

browser technology changing… will it obsolete a lot of pre-existing software? #bib12

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OMG, Daniel Buchner of Mozilla is talking about incredible things. New HTML tags. #bib12

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Да, и Readium будет мобильным тоже. Ок. #BiB12

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26 Oct katetravers @katetravers

feeling blue to not make it to #bib12 but enjoying tweet, slideshares and trash talk from tweeps

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@blaine. The poetica beta invite thingy isn't working for me? You hit the button, and it doesn't...do anything #bib12

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26 Oct kindoma @kindoma

Readium is the jquery for ebooks. Impressive work in progress at http://readium.org #bib12

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#BiB12 @csuwldcat of @Mozilla "In the beginning was the web. That led to some pretty interesting things, but it was prettysimple."

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#BiB12 Next preso is @csuwldcat of @Mozilla on “Custom Elements and <book /> Returning the Web to Authorship" | Stream:http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ




Маккой сказал, что Readium будет native. Хм. Значит, бодрее #BiB12

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26 Oct Liz Castro @lizcastro

Excellent: EPUB 3 Test Suite from IDPF RT @ePubPupil: @lizcastro This? http://code.google.com/p/epub-conform/ #bib12@billmccoy #eprdctn

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26 Oct Smuuks.it @Smuuks

McCoy at #BiB12 announces Readium 2 optimized for mobile devices. #eprdctn

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.@billmccoy: open web platform is the environment, includes epubs, web apps, and good old websites. I like it. #bib12

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#BiB12 @billmccoy A second version of Readium is in the works, and the open web platform is Bill's interest going forward.

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@lizcastro This? http://code.google.com/p/epub-conform/ #bib12




I do agree with the idea of books as open web content. #bib12

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What's the URL for the EPUB conformance testing site? Is it http://code.google.com/p/epub-conform/ ? #BiB12



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EPUB Reading System conformance test suite project kicks off http://bit.ly/Xuz3Ds #bib12 @billmccoy #IDPF

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RT @ePubPupil "Nobody is going to learn markup." Yep. #bib12

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26 Oct AnneMarie Concepcion @amarie

@liza rofl ... I thought it was FANTASTIC!!! I added a comment to the GoogleDoc early on. Lots of fun. #bib12




Need the URL for the EPUB Suite Test Suite @BillMcCoy #epub3 #readium #bib12

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Follow @Porter_Anderson and @charabbott for fantastic live reporting from #BIB12

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26 Oct Julieta Lionetti @JulietaLionetti

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @Gunzalis has referred to this controversial post from @fakebaldur at @TheFutureBook:http://ow.ly/eMdAM

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#BiB12 @billmccoy "We need teams that work together -- app-developer teams for each title won't scale."

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26 Oct Huub van de Pol @huwie

No problem, have fun! Following Books in Browsers is also interesting :-) RT @ljndawson: #ISBNhour is not happening today -I am at #bib12

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"Nobody is going to learn markup." Yep. #bib12

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Anyone up on all the 100+ specifications that comprise the "open web" #bib12 => Authors need tools to make production moreefficient #bib12

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26 Oct Liza Daly @liza

For people who want their own Github Pages denial-of-service system, we'll post the source for the slides+Google Drive codesoon #bib12

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#BiB12 @billmccoy "Solution providers need an EPUB 3 SDK...and a unified architecture has benefits."

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RT @forrester RT @stevefurman: 44% of site users leave because they don't like or understand the privacy policy #forrforum@fatemehx2 #bib12

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I think IDPF has a good strategy to implement ePub3 easier and everywhere #BiB12 We all need this.

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Go Benetech for integrating Readium in their service! #bib12

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26 Oct Blaine @blaine

Thank you all so, so much for all your kind words. I'm dizzy and excited. #bib12

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Good to see http://github.readium.org/ and https://github.com/readium/readium #BiB12

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RT @RonHogan: I'm never going to find out how this "10 Fingers on My Hands" song ends & in the end it will drive me mad.#butnottoday #bib12

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#BiB12 @BillMcCoy of IDPF Here's where to get more about Readium, which Bill is showing us: http://readium.org/

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I'm never going to find out how this "Ten Fingers on My Hands" song ends, and in the end it will drive me mad. #butnottoday#bib12

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@lynnemthomas Watching #bib12 stream, question about preservation problems w/videos embedded in books. Any experiencew/this yet? Thanks.

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26 Oct Shelli (srjohannes) @srjohannes

aw u r so sweet! thk u! :) RT @miralsattar: @thecreativepenn @srjohannes @sabsky featured ur awesome bks #bib12http://slidesha.re/UITc94





26 Oct Ricky Wong @kinwong

Does #bib12 have more demos than #bib11?

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That song is going to be stuck in my head all day. Readium is still cool, though. #bib12

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Is there an up-to-date list of what clients support EPUB 3? Does http://readium.org/ provide full support for EPUB 3? #BiB12

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#BiB12 @BillMcCoy of IDPF "Readium was kicked off at @TOC in Feburary." It can support rich fixed as well as flowingcontent.

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26 Oct Miral Sattar @miralsattar

@thecreativepenn @srjohannes @sabsky @orbooks featured your awesome books and strategies for my #bib12 preso ->http://slidesha.re/UITc94




VitalSource e-textbooks UK based ...working with epub3 standard... a rich media text book, more like an app. #bib12

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Bill McCoy at #BiB12 : tablet, demand of interactivity and accessibility as a drive for EPUB 3 #eprdctn #idpf #readium

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RT @footage: Remarkable how much work at #bib12 resolves back to a discourse we never had on word processing and itspossibilities

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@Porter_Anderson thank you for the kind words! @thecreativepenn you can check out the #bib12 preso here! http://slidesha.re/UITc94






Will embedding video into books ruin them for preservation purposes? #bib12 => Something we need to consider as interactivebooks develop

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#BiB12 readium demo - ten fingers on my hands - trivia from me - all thumbs are fingers, but not all fingers are thumbs

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RT @footage Remarkable how much work at #bib12 resolves back to a discourse we never had on word processing and itspossibilities.

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I agree, I'd trust @billmccoy with my EPUB files, but not sure I'd want him working on my eyes! #bib12

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#BiB12 @BillMcCoy of IDPF Accessibility is one of the key elements of ePUB 3 for @VitalSource. Bill demos drag-and-dropillustrations.

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I can't wait till @lizcastro presents! #bib12

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26 Oct Rick Prelinger @footage

Remarkable how much work at #bib12 resolves back to a discourse we never had on word processing and its possibilities#mediaarchaeolgy

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Delighted that @blaine & @maureen showed a white rectangle can still be a compelling, artful, innovative writing UI. Greatrejoinder. #bib12

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@arhomberg Yes, KF8 is based on HTML5, just as EPUB3, so conversion isn't huge deal #BiB12





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#BiB12 @BillMcCoy of IDPF notes that @VitalSource Bookshelf has 2.5 million users, adding 10,000 per week.

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26 Oct Meghan MacDonald @meghanmac

EPUB3 being "supported" is a stretch #BiB12

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26 Oct Peter Richardson @meetar

That has included @jetblue, the taxi rides, the hotel, and #bib12 itself. People just trying to do right by each other.

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RT @arhomberg: Ah #BiB12 confirms what I always suspected, BIG 6 supply Amazon EBooks as ePubs and Amazon itselftransmogrifies to .mobi

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EUB3 is a huge upgrade from EPUB2 => But are publishers really taking advantage of the capabilities? #bib12

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26 Oct Andrew Rhomberg @arhomberg

Ah #BiB12 confirms what I always suspected, BIG 6 supply Amazon EBooks as ePubs and Amazon itself transmogrifies to .mobi

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26 Oct Heather McCormack @HuisceBeatha

So glad #bib12 is held on Left coast, far away from Manhattan. Healthy to get out of the moldering vertical idea silo. Though Isee progress

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Nearly every aspect of my #bib12 trip has had an undercurrent of de-fetishizing tech and process, and returning the focus topeople.

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#BiB12 @BillMcCoy of IDPF says he has three demos in his presentation on Readium. "EPUB has been very successful for trade#ebooks."

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Looking forward to @billmccoy's talk now. EPUB goodness. #bib12

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RT @billmccoy: W3C, with IDPF & BISG, organizing workshop on E-Books & Open Web Feb 11-12 NYC at TOC http://bit.ly/WNocph #epub3 #bib12

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Билл Маккой из IDPF про Readium #BiB12

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IDPF on the stage, let's talk about Readium #BiB12

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Next up @billmccoy discussing Readium #bib12

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Bill McCoy talking about #Readium #bib12

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#bib12 back from coffee now it's time for readium..

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Homework via @R_Nash: check out Poeti.ca: "Familiar editing marks, new medium." See archive of demo by @maureen and@blaine #bib12




#BiB12 Coming in the 10:15aPT / 1pET hour @BillMcCoy of IDPF on "Teaching the browser EPUB 3 (and learning on theway)"

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26 Oct Mark Bernstein @eastgate



.@natematias #bib12 does look like it was a good place to be.



26 Oct Deanna Utroske @DeannaUtroske

Why is an ebook ever riddled with typos? http://ow.ly/eNzfJ by @laura_june & via @scholarlykitchn ~ #eprdctn & #bib12




Loving the twangy goodness of the interlude music for #BiB12

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26 Oct Craig Mod @craigmod

I knew I had seen @blaine's quote somewhere before. #bib12 http://twitpic.com/b7lmn4




#BiB12 -- Live music between talks. I like it. Thanks musicians.

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#BiB12 just finished watching the Poetica demo, time for some coffee

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Hell yes RT @indiamos: Literacy today=reading+writing. Being only able to read as disadvantageous as not reading 100 yrsago.-@blaine #bib12

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Reading the off the grid ecstatic Books in Browsers tweets. It sounds like the only things you don't have are burritos and chocolate#bib12

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26 Oct Grave Rob Sanderson @azaroth42

Hope there's some discussion about Annotation at #bib12? Would have loved to be there again this year! #openannotation

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26 Oct J. Nathan Matias @natematias

@eastgate, are you following #bib12?

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#bib12 The @liza + @abdelazer demo is back up and running: http://bit.ly/sbobib12

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People who love the human aspect of editing and conversations about writing will fall in love with poeti.ca. Gorgeous. #bib12

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#BiB12 End of http://Poetica.com preso -- we are in a break now. Back soon. Meanwhile, the @Safaribooks project http://ow.ly/eNxQQ

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Wow, what a morning so far! #bib12

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+1 RT @ftoolan: feeling #bib12 crowd is understanding that moving publishing forward means leading, not dragging. helptransition not change

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Poeti.ca tries to recognize the distinction between fine-grained editorial queries and broader discussion points. #bib12

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Heeeeeeee! RT @inkleStudios: @ljndawson verse-tion control? #bib12

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#BiB12 @Maureen "We designed this by looking at written feedback, how people use the space of the page to have thatconversation."

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Yes. RT @ftoolan: feeling the #bib12 crowd is understanding that moving publishing forward means leading, not dragging.#bib12

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26 Oct Sebastian Posth @sposth

#bib12 http://Poetica.com is pretty cool to use! Very easy. (Although pretty close to what you can do with Google Docs, isn't it?)

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26 Oct Letizia Sechi @letiziasechi

We worked at an interface that forces you to really think about what you're doing | @blaine speaking about poeti.ca at #bib12

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26 Oct Elmer Masters @emasters

@sglassmeyer yep, starting to see more #BiB12 now. Plus I'm learning new and dangerous Drupal things here at #DcATL. Quitethe Friday.




I'd like to be able to embed the poetica goodness into my own apps. Hope that's on the roadmap! #bib12

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RT @indiamos: Literacy today is reading+writing. Being *only* able to read is as disadvantagous as not reading 100 yrs ago.-@blaine #bib12



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@r_nash You should be here at #BiB12



26 Oct Pablo Defendini @pablod

+1 THE BAAAWMB. “@jmaxsfu: Liza and Keith are The Bomb. Wow. #bib12”

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@Maureen and @blaine prove yet again that elegance is possible in the software world; making the comfortable seem simple.#bib12

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26 Oct Boris Anthony @Bopuc

Seems some of the good peeps are at #bib12… @craigmod @hughmcguire @blaine :) hello!

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#BiB12 now is in some Q&A with @Maureen and @blaine

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26 Oct Champagne Choquer @champa9ne

I don't think enough publishers have looked behind the curtain yet! @craigmod Developers, the white wizards of the future ofpub #bib12

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"It's not a word-processor." —@blaine (on @poetica) #bib12

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Awwwwwww, @pablod! #bib12 #poeticanotontabletyet

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26 Oct subMission SF @subMission_SF

Just got a sneak peek at a very cool online editing tool. Secret link: http://poetica.com/bib12 #BiB12

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#BiB12 @Maureen "Editing can play a key activity role across the web." (Everyone edits.) Remember you can subscribe:http://Poetica.com

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Me three! RT @charabbott: Yes! RT @agwieckowski: This may become my new mantra. MT @kissane: I love now. #bib12

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I'm impressed that poeti.ca has hired a GDS developer. They are doing good work. #bib12

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Yes! RT @agwieckowski: This may become my new mantra. MT @kissane: I love now. #bib12

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Literacy today means reading+writing. Being *only* able to read is as much a disadvantage as being *unable* to 100 yrs ago.



—@blaine #BiB12

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26 Oct Letizia Sechi @letiziasechi

We need to be more aggressive in building tools for people to write, says @blaine at #bib12

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26 Oct Andrew Savikas @andrewsavikas

Reading and writing are both technologies, & have *very* steep learning curves. They seem easy/natural because we learn bothyoung #bib12

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RT @pablod: Smart people redefining &democratizing publishing production tools. [Few] legacy publisher in sight. #bib12=>Hello Manhattan??

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Everyone edits. #bib12

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This may become my new mantra. MT @kissane: I love now. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine "Literacy today means #reading *and* #writing -- it's not enough today to just be able to read."

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BTW i'm saving my favorite links from #BiB12 stage at Delicious: http://bitly.com/TH718e

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26 Oct Christopher Sopher @cksopher

An incredible thing: “@kissane: .@maureen and @blaine are live-demoing Poeti.ca for the first time in front of a publicaudience. #BiB12”

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26 Oct nick disabato @nickd

“literacy today means reading and writing. it’s not enough to just read.” – @blaine at #bib12

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26 Oct Richard Nash @R_Nash

It's all the #BiB12 folks say it is! MT @kissane: @maureen and @blaine are live-demoing Poeti.ca … Familiar editing marks,new medium.

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. @maureen quoting from Robert Bringhurst on polyphonic speech. "...where their speech is not drowned out by machines"#bib12

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Getting selective re the friction we cultivate... polyphonic living #bib12

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26 Oct erin kissane @kissane

Where do we need more humane text-centered conversations? Wikipedia. Government. Comments. (The internet.) We needpolyphony. #BiB12

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Clay Farr is here! RT @pablod: Smart people redefining &democratizing publishing production tools. Not one legacy publisher insight. #bib12

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@blaine @Maureen #BiB12 How do you incorporate poeti.ca (respectful suggested edits) into other editors and editingenvironments?

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John Campbell developed his stable of SF/F writers for Astounding & Analog by having editing conversations with them. #bib12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine "Each edit we've encoded in Poetica is a conversational thing...'What were you trying to say here?'"

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I'm hearing about a lot of author - editor angst in the poeti.ca prezo #BiB12

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26 Oct Michelle MacAleese @m_mac

@meghanmac curious to hear more. @poetica @blaine @maureen #BiB12




Looks like the internet is stable again. Someone must have made a tribute to the router God at the Church of Internet #bib12

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feeling the #bib12 crowd is understanding that moving publishing forward means leading, not dragging. help transition, notchange

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"Fewer -ors, more -ings!" -@maureen #bib12 poeti.ca

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RT @kissane: Humanist tools for human-scale conversations from the most thoughtful makers imaginable. I love now. / @blaine@Maureen #BiB12

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26 Oct Dan Blank @DanBlank

RT @bsandusky: The networked book is major theme at #bib12. How do we get there? http://www.brettsandusky.com/2012/10/26/whats-next-a-case-for-the-future/ …

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26 Oct Travis Alber @screenkapture

Real-time shared reading (and writing) is still some of the most interesting work showing up at #bib12

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Developers, the white wizards of the future of pub #bib12

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#BiB12 @Maureen "We just want to support the small activities, assist the flow." https://poetica.com/

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26 Oct dslessing @dslessing



Would love to see my daughters creative writing class use poeti.ca to combine traditional editing in online collaboration. #bib12

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Logic of river expressed by its banks... The friction between the river and the landscape creates what is lasting. - @blaine #bib12

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26 Oct Sarah Glassmeyer @sglassmeyer

@emasters Books in Browsers ( #bib12 ) has Good Stuff too today.




The development of pen technology got the details of the tech out of the way of the user of the pen. SW/HW needs similar work.#bib12

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<3 RT @kissane: "Editing isn't some dead art that needs to rise again out of technology. We just need to rekindle the joy." -@blaine #BiB12

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Сорри, http://poetica.com #BiB12

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26 Oct Lance Ellisor @LanceEllisor

Blaine's river metaphor is beautiful. #bib12

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Humanist tools for human-scale conversations from the most thoughtful makers imaginable. I love now. / @blaine @maureen#BiB12

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26 Oct Paulo Querido @PauloQuerido

RT @kissane: "Editing isn't some dead art that needs to rise again out of technology. We just need to rekindle the joy." —@blaine#BiB12

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26 Oct Liam Campbell @liamcampbell

Publishers are dead. Authors, editors, social media. No need for 'publishers', just retailers. #BiB12 - #toccon live onhttp://oreilly.com/toc

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Two poets on stage, I stand corrected. #bib12

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I love this. Smart people redefining and democratizing the tools of publishing production. And not one legacy publisher in sight.#BiB12

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Great Poeti.ca @poetica demo from @blaine & @maureen. Using technology to get technology out of the way...for editors.#BiB12 cc @m_mac

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Народ из poeti.ca показали демо софта для колл. правки текстов с помощью ОБЫЧНЫХ корректорских знаков. Неоторваться от традиции #BiB12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine and @Maureen of Poetica -- a subscription page is here: https://poetica.com/

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Poetica >> using technology to get technology out of the way. #bib12

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RT @indiamos: “Using technology to get technology out of the way” —@maureen #BiB12 => Isn't there something oxymoronicabout that statement?

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26 Oct Peter Brantley @naypinya

beginning to feel like the future of publishing just blew past the past here at #bib12. there could be an awesome future

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Poeti.ca fits into the theme of self-published authors working with professionals like editors, cover designers, etc #bib12

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Like what @maureen says, poeti.ca is "connecting people to do more human work,” by getting technology out of the way. #bib12

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‘It’s about connecting people to do more human work’ — @maureen on poeti.ca, this looks so awesome #bib12

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Loved @maureen and @blaine's Poetica demo! Can't wait to try it! #bib12

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I'd like to see the Books in Browsers community leaning heavily on Apple to move towards things like poeti.ca and Pixel Qiscreens. #bib12

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“Using technology to get technology out of the way” —@maureen #BiB12



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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine and @Maureen of Poeti.ca -- quote @timoreilly: "Create more than you capture."

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It's a messy web out there and there's lots of editing to do! @Maureen #bib12 => Sad that more people don't care enough aboutediting

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#Writer and #editor friends, check out http://www.poetica.com , they just presented at #BiB12, which you should follow today ifyou can!

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26 Oct coreycaitlin @coreycaitlin

Pretty sure I picked the wrong hour to step aside and desperately write work emails. #bib12

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"It's a messy web out there." - @maureen #bib12

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Sign up for the beta: Poeti.ca, proofreading marks in the browser, for editors not developers! by @maureen and @blaine at#BiB12.

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'Our hope is that we can bring some soul back into [editing]'says @Blane. Hallelujah! #BiB12

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Working demo! Poeti.ca provides a lovely simple web interface for collaborative editing using classic editing markup #bib12

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"It's a little bit skeuomorphic, what we did, but it's also not—those wavy lines are your fingers moving across the page." #BiB12

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26 Oct Alissa Lukara @AlissaLukara

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine: "Editing isn't some dead art...our hope is that we can bring some soulback" into it.

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26 Oct Ankur @ankurthakkar

Maintaining editorial standards on the Internet with some soul: https://poetica.com #bib12

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RT @maxfenton: If you’re watching the livedemo of @poetica at #bib12, sign up for launch announcement at http://poetica.com #bib12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine "The little wiggly lines and stuff are your fingers moving across the page...you interacting with thetext."

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26 Oct Justo Hidalgo @justohidalgo



@blaine showing why he's a mentor at @seedcamp #awesome RT @kissane: .@maureen live-demoing Poeti.ca for the firsttime. #BiB12

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RT @plympton: Watch for this soon. Poeti.ca, familiar editing marks in the browser! by @maureen and @blaine at #BiB12.#bib12

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If you’re watching the livedemo of @poetica at #bib12, sign up for launch announcement at http://poetica.com

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26 Oct Nicole Valentine @nicoleva

I like this. This is a much more organic editing process - would be hugely useful in academia too. poeti.ca #bib12

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"Editing isn't some dead art that needs to rise again out of technology. We just need to rekindle the joy." —@blaine #BiB12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine: "Editing isn't some dead art...our hope is that we can bring some soul back" into it.

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Oh, joy! They are talking about joy & soul at a book tech conference! #bib12

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Interesante plataforma de creación colectiva Poeti.ca https://poetica.com/ #BiB12

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26 Oct Laura Zander @lz

"What we're trying to create is a sense of joy." -@blaine @maureen #BiB12 Hell yeah.

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Cool web-based, human-flavored way to facilitate editing conversations (not just tracked changes) - poeti.ca - @maureen@blaine #bib12

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Poeti.ca looks AMAZING. Editors, take note. #bib12

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amazing placement of humanity into the web for storytelling #bib12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine and @Maureen now present Poeti.ca "We're trying to return to the personality of writtencommentary."

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.@maureen and @blaine are live-demoing Poeti.ca for the first time in front of a public audience. Familiar editing marks, newmedium. #BiB12

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Poetica 's humane interface #bib12

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Wow. Poeti.ca. Wow. A really on-screen proofreading system that actually works. With proofreader marks... Ooooh oooohhhooooooohhhh #BiB12

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Love seeing a writer (@maureen) and developer (@blaine) creating integrated tools that appeal to both brain hemispheres#bib12

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Very cool demo of poeti.ca online editing software, looks like handwritten proof marks. WANT. @blaine @maureen #BiB12

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Watching @blaine and @maureen show off a very cool interactive editing tool! #bib12 pic.twitter.com/wUwGlHxb






@scott_patten @peterarmstrong Are you wathcing #bib12?

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Ooooooh. I love the proofreader marks in the Poetica demo! Gorgeous #bib12

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What about 'crowd editing'? Let your readers edit your writing? #BiB12 - #toccon live on http://oreilly.com/toc

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Another live demo. This time, poeti.ca. #bib12

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#BiB12 @Maureen "Conversation is culturally specific. We don't want to lose social nuance and ethics."

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Another demo. We are crossing our fingers. #bib12

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. @Maureen Editing is about a conversation. Computers can't have those conversations for us #bib12

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Authors like Cory Doctorow use GitHub like tools for their writing. Great idea! #BiB12 - #toccon live on http://oreilly.com/toc

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Now up: @blaine and Maureen Evans. #bib12

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“Collaborating on writing is about trust and conversations of trust.” —@Maureen #bib12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine's "MacGuffin" term was coined by Alfred Hitchcock, btw. :) Discussion: Trust in conversation.

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Git for writing is a MacGuffin, say @blaine and @maureen. What matters is conversation. #BiB12

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26 Oct Brian Snapp @snappstare

@kissane cool thx glad I caught some of it http://livestream.com/oreillytoc #BiB12




Poets talking about version control. Holeeeeeee moly. #bib12

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There is a lot of continuity from year to year at #bib12 talks. That is awesome, means that people are building on top of their



work.

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@liza и @abdelazer показали будущее студенческих конспектов )) но и сторителлинга тоже #BiB12

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#BiB12 @OnceUponABlaine is talking about MacGuffins in this preso with @Maureen | Stream: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ




So true, Word track changes isn't the best way to critique writing @blaine #bib12

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A poet takes the stage. #bib12

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That presentation felt like a school staff room meeting. Couldn't hear questions? #BiB12 - #toccon live on http://oreilly.com/toc

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#BiB12 Now has @Maureen "We're here to discuss something older than technology -- conversation."

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.@blaine and @maureen are about to give the first look of THEIR NEW THING. #bib12

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#BiB12 Now has @Maureen and Blaine Cook present "Dear Editor: conversation in an electronic age" | Stream: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ




Finally the big poeti.ca reveal! #bib12

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“Where the transcript is capturing the editing and the comments all in real time that everyone but dissipates in the editing” [sic]#bib12

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Poetica being demo'd live here, now: http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc #bib12




I'll be talking about Beatrice at Books in Browsers #bib12 around 2:30pm EDT/11:30 am PDT. Livestreamed at: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ



26 Oct Champagne Choquer @champa9ne

@jmaxsfu nice #bib12 slides! is that a Canadian typeface I see?

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26 Oct Sebastien Marion @sebastienmarion



Exactly, in a learning space! Shades of @glassboard #bib12

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Multidimensionality comes to books via @liza and @abdelazer at #bib12

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26 Oct xpectro @xpectro

I just came on stage at #BiB12 / @liza and @abdelazer made Bogotá a step away from San Francisco ;-)

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@liza love the demo #bib12. Reminds me of http://pinterest.com/pin/235102043018242870/ … :-)

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That demo that didn't work at #bib12 was pretty cool @abdelazer @liza

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RT @ePubPupil: That demo was so cool. I'd call it StreamSpeak. #bib12 [cc @liza @abdelazer

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@TAC_NISO This is changing. #bib12 #awesome




@xpectro And we ALL keeled over. #bib12




First time I've heard 'it looked like I was on a meth bender' at a conference! #BiB12

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@ljndawson You just aren't going to the right conferences! #bib12 #awesome







@Liza just showed "the future" ;-) #Bib12

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That demo was so cool. I'd call it StreamSpeak. #bib12

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26 Oct Sara Peyton @SaraPeyton

MT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @OReillyMedia is providing a live stream from Books in Browsers here http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ #TOCCON #bib12




RT @amarie Takes some brass ovaries to project twitter stream of people commenting on your presentation while you're onstagehuzzahs! #bib12

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First time I've heard the words "meth bender" in a preso. #bib12 @liza #awesome



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#BiB12 @Liza & @abdelazer of @SafariBooks -- very cool that they're trying to integrate the entire conference, not just recordspeakers.

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Liza and Keith are The Bomb. Wow. #bib12

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Takes some brass ovaries to project the twitter stream of people commenting on your presentation while you're presenting!huzzahs! #bib12

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@booksquare Right? #bib12






Absolutely great. #Bib12 demo by @Liza showed how "silent" and global voices are going to be part of a document...

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#BiB12 @abdelazer "If we're going to go to all the trouble" of a conference like this, they want to capture audience/followerinput, too.

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We should do a much better job about extracting the intelligent conversation taking place at #bib12 not just record video@abdelazer

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What I love about #bib12 is that we see the shredded, still-throbbing bleeding edge of what's possible.

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RT @craigmod: Real-time voice transcription into segmented google docs, edited live w/ realtime group commentaryhttp://public.safarilab.com/talks/bib-2012-self-publishing-book/ … #bib12

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26 Oct David Danziger @dzeez

Really interesting, novel live-tweet comment capturing presentation experiment https://bitly.com/sbobib12 from #bib12

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26 Oct Kassia Krozser @booksquare

truly @abdelazer and @liza have done my favorite live demo ever. #bib12

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26 Oct hubert guillaud @hubertguillaud

Waou ! A #bib12, ils ont couplé transcription vocale aux slides et comments sur Twitter, pour générer synthèse auto : http://bit.ly/PUTGI6

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26 Oct MissAdventuring @MissAdventuring

At Books in Browsers again today tweeting from @selfpubbootcamp #BIB12 - and you can also watch the live streamhttp://oreil.ly/TKuPSO

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#BiB12 @Liza is trying to capture the transcript of her voice delivery, LIMNED by the social and editing involvement of thosefollowing.

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+1 RT @micycle: For a borked demo, this is pretty damn cool! Voice recognition feeding google docs, syncing with twitter#bib12 #wow!

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everyone knows @Liza & @abdelazer of @SafariBooks are real rock stars, so no one is at all bothered that their demo blew up.#bib12

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...a meaningful imprint of the moment #BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks

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More on the future of reading at Books in Browsers (#bib12). Livestrining from @internetarchive http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc







#BiB12 @Liza & @abdelazer of @SafariBooks "There are still some places inside the publishing world where there are grossefficiencies."

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Technologists discuss the future of reading: http://toc.oreilly.com/ #bib12

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26 Oct Jesse S. McDougall @jsmcdougall

Dear Books, Ha ha! Beat you to it! Respectfully, The Web #bib12

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Лайза с коллегой продемонстрировала «Self-publishing book» из своей речи. Не без сбоев, но получилось. Вместе ствит-комментами #BiB12 #fb

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Snarking on the twitter backstream, never! @abdelazer #bib12



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#BiB12 @Liza & @abdelazer of @SafariBooks Now shows us how, when things work, you capture social snark against the"manuscript" of voice.

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Livedemo gDoc » github pages got b0rked, but much nice smartness onstage from @abdelazer + @liza at #bib12

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Oh my I LOVE THIS EXPERIMENT .... live commenting on presentation http://goo.gl/VYPAf via shared Google docs #bib12http://twitpic.com/b7l7s9




Live demos are stressful..good to have backup slides or local version Ack :'( #bib12

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RT @agwieckowski: Authoring tools need to become invisible. Nobody's going to learn your markup language. - @liza #bib12-Hence @pressbooks!

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For a borked demo, this is pretty damn cool! Voice recognition feeding google docs, syncing with twitter #bib12 #wow!

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How our eyes scan a page: pic.twitter.com/82BOYX50 via @pablod #BiB12




Apparently, @liza and @abdelazer have angered the githubs. The githubs are a vengeful god. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @Liza & @abdelazer of @SafariBooks (working on getting their demo to work...)

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RT @maxfenton: “People are going to want to talk where the people are, not where the words are.” —@liza #bib12

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@liamcampbell Yes, I think people must have had fun last night :) #bib12




#BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks >>what is compelling about real time...

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@leyink are you here at #bib12 today. where are you sitting?

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#BiB12 @abdelazer & @liza @SafariBooks shows us a version of people's feedback on the "manuscript" of her voice commentsto us.



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Guys, the collaborative bookmaking thing going on at http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc right now is incredible. #BiB12




What a lovely thing to say about a live demo = "Imagine this, but 100X better" @abdelazer #bib12

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99% всего, что пишется сегодня, не будет напечатано — Лайза Дейли #BiB12

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#BiB12 @abdelazer points out that the link they gave us is un-working (times out).

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RT Is the pres working for others? @craigmod: Follow @liza's dark codex magic here: http://public.safarilab.com/talks/bib-2012-self-publishing-book/ … #bib12

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@Liza is talking about the importance of talking / Digital times require voice, video and inputs #BiB12 http://oreil.ly/TKqVcA

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#BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks now pulls up a demo of streaming authoring (her voice as manuscript).

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Real-time voice transcription into segmented google docs, edited live w/ realtime group commentary: http://public.safarilab.com/talks/bib-2012-self-publishing-book/ … #bib12

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#BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks "I see some hint of application, 'from books to professionally edited videos, from videos toconference presos.'"

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So my #ff will be the #bib12 presenters, most are on Twitter, I'll aggregate them later: http://bit.ly/QKfKCe - Art & Science ofBooks.

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@jaumebalmes Who's the editor. That's the next question. #bib12




RT @pablod: Aha… real-time writing via voice, into google docs! #BiB12 => Go @liza

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99% of today's writing will never be printed, we're prematurely optimizing for a printed outcome that will never arrive @liza#BiB12

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Aha… real-time writing via voice, into google docs! #BiB12



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#BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks "Voice, real-time editing, social media, as an input to a writing process: Let's Write Together" ...

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@naypinya looking quizzically at @liza at the suggestion that he had some input to her presentation. #bib12

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Las actividades sociales son locales @liza #BiB12

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Ok, author doesn't have to markup their text. I agree. That's the editor job. #BiB12

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26 Oct Buster Bylander @Infratrilogy



On social reading/annotating: "People are going to want to talk where the people are not where the words are"–@liza#couldntagreemore #bib12

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@liamcampbell I'll try to give a look later. Today in #bib12 http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc




“People are going to want to talk where the people are, not where the words are.” —@liza #bib12

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"People want to talk about media, but clips to rope, not clips to words" says @liza at #BiB12

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Nice critique regarding markup languages by @liza. Though I'm still hesitant regarding "one-click/one-button publishing" #bib12

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#BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks Authorship: "Voice recog is mainstream...(and) we are optimizing for a printed outcome that willnever arrive."

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If most documents are never printed, will they ever be preserved? #bib12

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Over 99% of everything that’s written today will never be printed. —@lizad #BiB12

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RT @micycle: "Nobody's gong to learn your markup language" @liza at #bib12 =>>But markup needs to exist behind scenes

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. @MadArtLab Also, @liza is doing a live document along with her preso, follow here: https://bitly.com/sbobib12+ #bib12

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I'm getting video and voice for #BiB12 out of sync today and I'm Pretty sure it's not @liza 's fault

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Asking authors to do markup on their own writing is swimming against the tide of what is happening in other industries -@liza#bib12

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"Nobody's gong to learn your markup language" @liza at #bib12 - trend is to invisible interface

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Voice recognition is becoming mainstream. Something that she's doing live onstage #bib12

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Ворд-процессоры все еще ворд-на-бумагу процессоры — Лайза Дейли #BiB12



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26 Oct Marco Ferrario @Marco4623

Technology users do not need to think of the tools they're using, just solving their problem-not new, but worthwhile to repeat@liza #bib12

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Authoring tools need to become invisible. Nobody's going to learn your markup language. - @liza #bib12

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Neat! Liza Daly of Safari Books Online now onstage live http://goo.gl/Z5XfO #bib12 follow her preso live here http://goo.gl/nRwzf verycool

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Most “word processors” are still “words-on-paper processors.” Really, it’s a paper processor that just may not get printed.—@lizad #BiB12

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#BiB12 @Liza @SafariBooks Authorship: "Domain-specific tools are going away....Most 'word' processors are 'words on paper'processors."

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26 Oct Peter Turner @PeterTurner

Def worth a watch! MT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @KatMeyer reminds us these sessions will be available after the confab.

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Mad Art Labbers: you might want to follow Books in Browsers live stream. http://bit.ly/WOrybv cc/ @MadArtLab #bib12



26 Oct Toby (╯°-°)╯ @PenguinPowered

I have a feeling that the audio recognition going on in top left is important. #bib12

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As @liza talks, her slide is doing live text recognition… what’s gonna happen!? #BiB12

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@PeterTurner Books NEED to be networked. #bib12




RT @ERandL: It's not whether OA will survive anymore but when will it be mainstream? http://ow.ly/eFQCp #BiB12

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#BiB12 anyone can open the website?

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Лайза Дейли из Safari Books Online http://bit.ly/sbobib12 #BiB12

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Paramedics at the IA are for an attendee who took a spill down the stairs and hurt her head & jaw (at least). I hope she'll be OK.#bib12



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. @liza The white rectangle shouldn't be the only input for writing #bib12

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Follow @liza's dark codex magic here: http://public.safarilab.com/talks/bib-2012-self-publishing-book/ … #bib12

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Tuning back into #BiB12 to watch @liza

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This talk is interactive, follow along at http://bit.ly/sbobib12 #BiB12






#bib12 I'd argue books aren't networked/linked--readers are. We need customer facing orientation in everything we do now.@ljndawson

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@liza talking now on ebooks and authorship at #bib12. For those not there (like myself) check the livestreamhttp://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct …

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Great article about what's wrong with online reading referenced by @ml_jepsen #BiB12 http://www.slideshare.net/randyconnolly/whats-wrong-with-online-reading …




RT @toc: Day two of #BiB12 has begun. Tune in here : http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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“Please follow along at http://bit.ly/sbobib12 “— @liza #bib12

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Again, tweeting from the Books in Browsers conference in San Francisco at @internetarchive #bib12

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#BiB12 During setup, @KatMeyer reminds us these sessions are being recorded and will be available after the confab.

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26 Oct Eileen Burbidge @eileentso

@blaine watching live stream... you're going to rock ! /cc @maureen @bfirsh #bib12




And @abdelazer has brought an empty chair onstage. He’ll be talking to it like it’s @andrewsavikas, Clint Eastwood style.#BiB12

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Welcome to @liza and @abdelazer at #bib12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson now finishes her talk, and we're setting up for @Liza and @abdelazer @SafariBooks "The#self-#publishing #book."

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Back to the #BiB12 stream. Really impressed with Mary Lou Jepson's presentation. @Liza's up next! Woot!

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Up next, @liza and @abdelazer. Go team go! #BiB12

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Considering the implications of a screen that needs 1% of the power current tech needs #bib12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi has told us that #Apple has quadrupled the power consumption of its devices in recentyears.

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Mary Lou Jepsen is awesome. Her talk is always a highlight at #BiB12.



26 Oct Pub. TrendSetter @PubTrendSetter

RT @ljndawson: Two big themes emerging from #bib12 - linked/networked books and SCREENS.

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@pixelqi goal to lower power consumption by 100x in 5 years so devices can be powered by solar chip like calculators #bib12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "Power reduction is multiplicative" and they're trying to lower the demand progressivelyover 5 years.

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RT @ljndawson: Two big themes emerging from #bib12 - linked/networked books and SCREENS. #bib12

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#bib12 Mary Lou Jepsen: Increasing power consumption by screens is a social issue -- it increases the digital divide.

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26 Oct Bobby George @bobbyjgeorge

[It used to be the CPU, but] “what a device really is these days is the screen.” —@ml_jepsen #BiB12 (via @maxfenton)

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Live stream of Books in Browsers 2012: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #bib12

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Miles Tinker's out of print book is the best comprehensive study of legibility of print - @ml_jepsen #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi shows us the @OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) she co-founded, which upped screen powerefficiency.

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Apple has quadrupled the power consumption of their screens over the past 4 years, but we need to lower it @pixelqi #bib12

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Apple is driving toward world of networked screens. MT @ljndawson: Two big themes emerging from #bib12 -linked/networked books and SCREENS.

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#FF to @naypinya and @KatMeyer for organizing a superb edition of Books in Browsers #BiB12 Kudos

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“If we make the power consumption of devices go up and not down, we increase the digital divide.” —@ml_jepson #BiB12



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26 Oct Marie Bilde @MarieBilde

what is the difference btw "readability" and "legibility"? Help a foreigner :-) #bib12

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To make retina screens work, Apple has to crank up backlight. They’ve quadrupled power consumption of screens in the last 4years. #BiB12

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26 Oct Esben M. Nielsen @esbenmn

"You get the Future you design for" #bib12 #diversity new angles and new platforms. #pixelQI

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "In the #iPad 3, #Apple cranked the brightness..it's a 9-watt machine, 8 watts are used bythe screen."

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26 Oct Ben Towle @ben_towle

Love to see one of these on a comics page. RT @pablod: How our eyes scan a page. Fascinating. #BiB12 http://is.gd/Cbc7Do

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26 Oct Brett Sandusky @bsandusky

The networked book is major theme at #bib12. How do we get there? http://www.brettsandusky.com/2012/10/26/whats-next-a-case-for-the-future/ …

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26 Oct Xander Cansell @quitexander

Following the fascinating live stream of Books in Browsers 2012 here http://oreil.ly/bwAast via @toc #bib12 #TOCcon

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dongle is a word of "our" generation. I once mentioned a dongle during training & they cracked up, thought I was making up aword #bib12

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RT @pablod: How our eyes scan a page. Fascinating. #BiB12 pic.twitter.com/ErmzTZlK






Legibility of Print by Miles A Tinker. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/279554 #bib12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson "If you only design for one company's products, you get the future you design for." Design for multipleplatforms.

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Two big themes emerging from #bib12 - linked/networked books and SCREENS.

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi The glare makes many LCD screens hard to read." (She shows us a video of screens.)

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RT @pablod: How our eyes scan a page. Fascinating. #BiB12 pic.twitter.com/m4ijUBPP




Where are books going? Find out RT @toc: Day two of "Books in Browsers" conf #BiB12 has begun. Tune in here: http://goo.gl/p43lp #TOCcon

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26 Oct Flipside @Flipsidepub

RT @pablod: How our eyes scan a page. Fascinating. #BiB12 pic.twitter.com/RZcMZC0w



26 Oct ePUBSecrets @ePUBSecrets

Where are books going? Find out RT @toc: Day two of "Books in Browsers" conf #BiB12 has begun. Tune in here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "Thank you, #Apple, for upping the resolution on your devices and explaining howimportant it is."

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#BiB12 Morning light on the Little People at the @InternetArchive in San Francisco. #TOCcon #amwriting http://ow.ly/eNlif ...

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How our eyes scan a page. Fascinating. #BiB12 pic.twitter.com/LcT13iyQ




#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi One of the best books on 'The Legibility of Print' is just that" by Miles Tinker. It's OOP:...

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64- 90% of us have ocular discomfort from prolonged screen use. @pixelqi #bib12

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Un 25% de los lectores en tabletas sufren algún tipo de incomodidad ocular tras largas sesiones de lectura en pantallas #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "A lot of us do experience ocular discomfort" in the lighting / glare environment of ourscreens.

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "25% of the population has some issue with light sensitivity" and will prefer no or lowbacklighting.

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As much of 25% of the population has light sensitivity; some % of those get migraines, headaches, dizziness from backlit screens.#BiB12

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Мэри Лу Джеспен из Пиксель Чи показывает спешные картинки о том, как бегает взгляд по тексту на бумаге и повеб-странице. #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "How o we make a reading experience that's good for both" detailed reading and fastscanning?

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RT @ftoolan: people are conditioned to read carefully on paper, and use LCD to scan to find parts they should print #bib12@pixelqi

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi (The screen heat-mapping she shows is something like Omniture's original display, if youknow it.)

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people are conditioned to read carefully on paper, and use LCD to scan to find parts they should print #bib12 @pixelqi

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi shows results of a reading speed test on a 10+ page academic paper, plus eye-scanheat-map charts.

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#ISBNhour is not happening today - I am at #bib12....

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The discrepancy between studies, Jepson believes, is because some studies are of skim-reading, some of extended reading.#BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi Best lelements for reading include anti-glare, reflective, color- and video-updating.

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#BiB12 MLJ: "My take: LCD + eInk" more or less...

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26 Oct Deanna Utroske @DeannaUtroske

something French from today’s #DBW daily ~ Des livres aux navigateurs http://bitly.com/QutKjt ~ #eprdctn & #bib12

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Some studies show no diff in eyestrain between CRT, LCD, Eink, paper. Others say reflective, anti-glare screens are best.—Jepson #BiB12

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Future of books live streams: i) In Re Books http://www.nyls.edu/inrebooks/fridayam … … #inrebooks ii) Books in Browsershttp://toc.oreilly.com #bib12

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Was hoping that Apple would have picked up Pixel Qi screens for educational devices, but their path went to high-density LCD.#bib12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi As to the best kind of tech for reading, some studies say there's no difference for the eyesin...

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi Alternatives: LCD follows either ("Glowing") DRAM or CMOS ("Display ASICs").

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RT @maxfenton: [It used to be the CPU, but] “what a device really is these days is the screen.” —@ml_jepsen #BiB12

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[It used to be the CPU, but] “what a device really is these days is the screen.” —@ml_jepsen #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi The CPU has come to have less impact ("hard to tell what's under the hood").

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson (co-founder of @OLPC) lives in Taipei. "The screen is the central component of these devices today."

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Taiwan is where almost all of the manufacturing of screens @pixelqi #bib12

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This talk about device hardware from Jepson is a real eye opener, for me at least #bib12

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“I see a lot of Apple products in the audience…” uh, yeah, ML Jepsen and @DonLinn are the only people not rocking MacBooksor iPads. #BiB12

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26 Oct Ben Dugas @bendu

RT @pablod: Apple and Samsung are the only two that invest in display as a differentiator, and it shows. #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "95% of all motherboards, 90% of all notebooks are manufactured in Taiwan." Taipei, notBeijing, leads.

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If you think at all about screens—or reading/writing on them—tune in to Mary Lou Jepson on http://oreil.ly/TcvED7 #BiB12

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@Lawgeek keep an eye on #bib12 today (http://toc.oreilly.com ) books in browsers. next generation of publishing.




Производители ЖК-экранв в рецессии. Рулят только производители устройств. При этом все ок только у Apple и Самсунг.#BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "What this spells for the future is that the info-delivery device IS the device. We needdiversity."

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Apple and Samsung are the only two that invest in display as a differentiator, and it shows. #BiB12

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26 Oct Adam Gardefjord @gardefjord

Check out the new bible! #bib12 pic.twitter.com/FTwl3t1K




“Pretty much anyone except Apple and Samsung are not-for-profit.” #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "In the device space...pretty much everybody but #Apple and @Samsung is non-profit."

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26 Oct Joe Wikert @jwikert

Screen manufacturing just like airline industry: nobody making a profit, per Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi #BiB12 #TOCcon

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“There’s not a single company in the world today that makes screens that’s profitable.” —Mary Lou Jepson #BiB12 So important,she said it 2x

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi *** "There's not a single company in the world today that makes screens that's profitable."

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Not a single company making screens today that is profitable. O.O #BiB12

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There's a huge capacity glut in LCD production, says Jepson #bib12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "Screen production is controlled by Korea, Taiwan, China, and Japan...China bringing onmore capacity."

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Sourcefabric доделало Booktype?? Оо https://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/latestrelease/1408/ … #BiB12 #fb

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26 Oct bill lefurgy @blefurgy

MT @meganprelinger: #bib12 Internet Archive plans to put all known Balinese literature online http://www.archive.org (tocome) Indonesia Bali

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LCD is increasingly the only display tech available. #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "If you care about screens...you have to use manufacturing facilities that exist" and thatmeans LCD.

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26 Oct Tools of Change @toc

Day two of #BiB12 has begun. Tune in here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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LCD is increasing ly the only display tech available. #BiB12

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson of @pixelqi "The future of reading, it's very clear, has to do with screens."

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Второй день #BiB12 . Начинает девушка из Pixel Qi. Неужелт они начали делать экраны? ))

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26 Oct Reidar Bratsberg @rebra

#morning at the Internet Archive #bib12 http://instagr.am/p/RQCklqEgt-/




Day two of #BiB12 has begun. Tune in here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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#BiB12 @KatMeyer of @OReillyMedia is thanking sponsors and introducing our first speaker, Mary Lou Jepson (Pixel QiCorp)

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Now that I’m over my #bib12 talk nerves, I’ll be tweeting a lot more. First up today, the amazing Mary Lou Jepsen, from PixelQi.

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#BiB12 Mary Lou Jepson in our first presentation of the day speaks on "Overworked Eyes: How can screens be easier on theeyes?" shortly

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26 Oct marcoghezzi @marcoghezzi

Ghosts in San Francisco. #bib12 http://instagr.am/p/RQCE8hQwGz/




Popping down to Blue Bottle before #bib12 kicks off for the day might have been a bit ambitious

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26 Oct Kat Meyer @KatMeyer

MT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @OReillyMedia is providing a live stream from Books in Browsers here http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ #TOCCON #bib12



26 Oct ALA_TechSource @ALA_TechSource

Books in Browsers program schedule (PDT) http://ow.ly/eNcHO #bib12 livestreaming http://oreil.ly/bwAast

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#BiB12 As before, @OReillyMedia is providing a live stream from Books in Browsers here http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ , free of charge.



26 Oct Melissa Techman @mtechman

@johnxlibris hi Mr Xlibris - I'm at #sljsummit, but also tracking #bib12 ; )



26 Oct gary gach @nobodhi

#BiB12 "books to browsers" http://bib.archive.org/ streaming live http://toc.oreilly.com/

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#BiB12 Good morning from autumnal San Francisco. About half an hour from the start of today's sessions at 8:30aPT / 11:30aET/ 1630BT.

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26 Oct Melissa Techman @mtechman



@irasocol: RT @agwieckowski"relatively brief period of human history...story was fixed and bound into a book" -@stefaniesyman #bib12

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26 Oct maria cardona @mmcardona

lectura recomendada: http://ljndawson.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/dawson_books_not_books.pdf … #bib12 via @ljndawson

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VitalSource is a proud sponsor at the Books in Browsers Conference this week. Hope to see you there. #BIB12

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26 Oct Peter Collingridge @gunzalis

Phenomenal autumn morning sunrise over SF en route to #bib12

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"the morepublishersunderstand aboutthe web, the more likely they areto survive" @ljndawson at #bib12http://ljndawson.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/dawson_books_not_books.pdf …

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26 Oct Sarah Glassmeyer @sglassmeyer

There are seriously too many conferences going on right now that I want to follow and listen to. #colpm #inrebooks #bnc12#bib12

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26 Oct Jodi Schneider @jschneider

Books in Browsers! :) http://bib.archive.org/2012/07/12/bib-2012-program/ … Sorry to have missed #BiB12 but looking forwardto catching up with #ebooks stuff this weekend!

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26 Oct Dominique Raccah @draccah

Finally caught up on yesterday's #BiB12 conference tweets. Haven't yet tackled slides or videos. #yikes (ok, now I have to go towork)

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RT @gluejar: #eprdctn or #bib12: has anyone seen #epub3 bundles using rights.xml or signature.xml in the wild?

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@mikawendy are you following this #bib12 hashtag at all? A conference I wish we were at ;) Good links, tho.

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Good question RT @lianaholmberg: How do (independent) bookstores fit in a world of web books? #bib12

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Easier every day RT @anna_cn: I see use case for kids books on big screens... I guess a bit like interactive white board trend.#bib12

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RT @ftoolan: @gunzalis: don't fall in love with your assumptions.You need to test them before you bet all your money on dev#bib12

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @stefaniesyman of @TheAtavist speaks of "the persistence of the story" even as we "explodethe container."

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Me 2 RT @RonHogan: @gunzalis #bib12 presentation was great, but I do wish the slide of new publishing innovators was not100% white guys.

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Could be RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @gunzalis "We overplayed the importance of tools and underplayed the importanceof skills."

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26 Oct Hol Art Books @holartbooks

Great #bib12 tweets from @agwieckowski yesterday, #ff for day two of the conference!

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RT @charabbott: RT @agwieckowski: Any examples of publishers working *well* w startups? Both pubs & startups want tomake better-how? #bib12

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26 Oct Sourcefabric @Sourcefabric

#books = #ebooks? With one click you publish both. #Booktype Pro is a cloud-publishing service. http://ow.ly/eHv0O #bib12

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We're giving anyone at #bib12 a 50% discount code for premium services http://bit.ly/Q2p3M2 Code: Bib12

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RT @younglibrarian: I've started saying that everyone can write a 1st draft. what they do beyond that makes them an author ornot. #bib12

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26 Oct Matthew Diener @MatthewDiener

MT @Porter_Anderson: A conversation about how #metadata does,doesn't & might someday work @brianoleary http://ow.ly/eMYso #BiB12 #ISBNHour

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MT @writersdigest: How to Manage a Great Blog and Build Your Online Presence - Nov. 1 webinar w/critique http://tinyurl.com/9fxtyvx #BiB12

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"A conversation about how #metadata does, doesn't and might someday work." @brianoleary http://ow.ly/eMYso #BiB12

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26 Oct Bill Damon @billdamon

RT @agwieckowski: RT @ljndawson: There will be a tool next year that will allow u to edit audio/video by editing text.Mindblowing. #bib12

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*@thecreativepenn And it was great to see your work in a slide here at #BiB12, too Joanna. Nice preso from @miralsattar

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#BiB12 Friday in the 9aPT / 12pET hour @Liza and @abdelazer @SafariBooks "The #self-#publishing #book." | Stream:http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ




"This 'nothing' @Amazon offers (is) ...attractive for #authors rejected by trad gatekeepers." @JaneFriedman http://ow.ly/eMT5R #BiB12

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Totally RT @v_clayssen: we don't have better data analytics, we have more data #brianoleary #bib12

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26 Oct Colleen Lindsay @ColleenLindsay

If you're attending #Bib12 in San Francisco, please find my colleague John Morgan (Dir of Dig Publishing) and introduceyourself!

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#BiB12 Friday at 8:30aPT / 11:30aET Mary Lou Jepson "Overworked Eyes: How can screens be easier on the eyes?" | Stream:http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ



26 Oct PageLab @Page_Lab

Slides: lendo na telona http://www.slideshare.net/pablodefendini/reading-on-the-big-screen … #bib12



26 Oct Dean Johnson @activrightbrain



There are conferences #LTF2012 #bib12 #wired12 and then there's a half-car race at #TopGearLive http://twitpic.com/b7ibnf -Go on, live a little.



26 Oct Pubfluence.Info @aramanc

Books in Browsers - Day 2 today at 16:30 UK time. Another packed agenda http://ow.ly/eMPAK | Live-Streaming - http://ow.ly/eMPhJ #bib12

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@brianoleary Sad you weren't talking tomorrow when I'll be able to 'attend' (via livestream) #bib12




And we do!:) RT @wion: TRUE! “@craigmod: "People really, really want to read on small screens." —@henrikberggren of@Readmill #bib12”

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26 Oct publification.com @publification

http://Publification.com web based eBook Editor. Instant preview in browser-based eBook reader. #HTML5 #BIB12 #eprdctnhttp://twitpic.com/b7h75l






26 Oct publification.com @publification

Hi @selfpubbootcamp check out http://Publification.com #selfpub platform with browser-based eBook reader! #BIB12#eprdctn pic.twitter.com/tGSVWOEk



26 Oct Sourcefabric @Sourcefabric

We're out and about today. @SourceFabienne is at #mtm12 while Booktype lead Adam Hyde speaks at #bib12.

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26 Oct cedric naux @cnaux

RT @mtamblyn: My @Kobo #BIB12 presentation /data lessons/ - "What do we read? What do we *finish" is now available.http://bit.ly/TdMhi3

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.@henrikberggren “as many ways to read as readers”: poetic, but surely there are types or modes or cases; how else could wedesign? #bib12

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25 Oct Simon Groth @simongroth



Spent today wishing I was in San Francisco for #bib12 but then I would've missed this. pic.twitter.com/QDRzRSwe



25 Oct Peter Garner @mhmediaonline

“@worsaae surprised that Nielsen Bookscan hasn't been mentioned until now. Maybe because the ebook panel is still under way?#bib12” Hej Jo!

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25 Oct Sam Missingham @samatlounge

RT @mtamblyn: My @Kobo #BIB12 presentation /data lessons/ - "What do we read? What do we *finish" is now available.http://prezi.com/jalwo7sx0eun/data-lessons-kobo-at-books-in-browsers-2012/ …

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25 Oct Dolores Glez Pastor @dgpastor

Libros que recomiendan otros libros: Mobnotate, una tecnología de recomendación basada en lectura real http://bit.ly/PKFewK #BiB12

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25 Oct Jean-Philippe Pastor @jppastor

“@kinwong: Interesting video technology from Mozilla: http://mozillapopcorn.org #bib12”

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25 Oct cedric naux @cnaux

En échos à #bib12 RT @jafurtado: Des livres aux navigateurs : des liens pour faire des ponts,par Hubert Guillaud http://bit.ly/PuPKxO

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25 Oct Jean-Philippe Pastor @jppastor

“@pablod: I've posted the slides for my #bib12 talk, 'Reading on the big screen,' on @slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/pablodefendini/reading-on-the-big-screen …”



25 Oct Destry Wion @wion

TRUE! “@craigmod: "People really, really want to read on small screens." —@henrikberggren of @Readmill #bib12”

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Des livres aux navigateurs : des liens pour faire des ponts, par Hubert Guillod http://tinyurl.com/8n7xk6l #discoverabilty #BiB12

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25 Oct Bill McCoy @billmccoy

Benetech using Readium in new Bookshare web reader, contributing a11y features back to project http://bit.ly/TJraEB #readium#epub3 #bib12

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Thanks to Micah at bluefire for hosting a great little shindig #bib12

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25 Oct Isabelle Aveline @_zazieweb

Comment livres et internet vont fusionner http://bit.ly/RmljHa #bib12 - A response to stimulating presentations @kinwong &@hughmcguire

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25 Oct kazuhiro ando（かざかざ） @kzakza

ボイジャーの萩野さんが講演するのか。　RT 今ちょうど、開催されているらしいのでとりあえず、#bib12をまとめてみました。「Books in Browsers 2012 at the Internet Archive #bib12」 http://togetter.com/li/396239





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25 Oct OwnShelf @OwnShelf

Anyone #BiB12 at Langston Labs for game night now?

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25 Oct Kelly Leonard @KellyLeonard

#bib12 #worldseries Anyone? SF Giants just won Game 2 - Book People, you're in their backyard, what say you?

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One last run-through of my talking points for tomorrow's #bib12 presentation: pic.twitter.com/5LkLXcQZ




Reflecting on @naypinya saying what to do if there's an earthquake @internetarchive but no word about what to do if powergoes out #bib12

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25 Oct kazuhiro ando（かざかざ） @kzakza

今ちょうど、開催されているらしいのでとりあえず、#bib12をまとめてみました。　「Books in Browsers 2012 at theInternet Archive #bib12」 http://togetter.com/li/396239






Little people = Air Chrysalis #BiB12

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25 Oct MobNotate @mobnotate

Interesting video technology from Mozilla: http://mozillapopcorn.org #bib12

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25 Oct ramblingjane @ramblingjane

Fantastic first day at books in browsers conference #BIB12

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25 Oct



johntaube @johntaube

Winding down from #bib12 with a alley cat ale (@ Pizza Inferno) http://4sq.com/VKPtJK



25 Oct eric hellman @gluejar

#eprdctn or #bib12: has anyone seen #epub3 bundles using rights.xml or signature.xml in the wild?

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25 Oct Babington.Co @bbbbbbbabington

“@TheFutureBook: Digital publishing tweeps, very cool event Books in Browsers today in SF. Live stream here: http://oreil.ly/QGlg98 #BiB12”

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25 Oct Liana Holmberg @lianaholmberg

@InternetArchive celebrating 10pB milestone during power blackout. Party continues by light of smartphones. #bib12

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10 000 000 000 000 000 байт #bib12 pic.twitter.com/nsYx1kJg



25 Oct Phoebe Ayers @brassratgirl

sounds like too much awesome took the power grid down in SF. Wish I was there @ the IA tonight. 1 petabyte/year of wikipedia...#bib12

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25 Oct Lisa Petrides @lpetrides

not a moment 2 soon! RT @footage Utility emergency crews just sped down Funston & parked in front of @internetarchive#bib12

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RT @craigmod: The geeky perfection of what we here at the Internet Archive are now experiencing cannot be captured in 140characters. #bib12

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RT @footage: Utility emergency crews just sped down Funston and parked in front of @internetarchive, per @meganprelinger#bib12

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http://yfrog.com/odemehrj woot #bib12




The geeky perfection of what we here at the Internet Archive are now experiencing cannot be captured in 140 characters. #bib12






It's a cosmic moment: power outage at the Internet Archive - but the show goes on! #bib12

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25 Oct Lisa Petrides @lpetrides

dave marvit explains: how big is a petabyte? if every byte were a dollar bill, u cld stack them frm Earth 2 the Moon 2838 times.lol #bib12

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25 Oct LB Johnson @LBJTechConsult

MT @MeganPrelinger: #bib12 Internet Archive announces entirety of known Balinese literature to be digitized, put onlinehttp://bit.ly/SaLNO7

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“How big is 10 petabytes?” #bib12 #nerdlife

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25 Oct Rick Prelinger @footage

Utility emergency crews just sped down Funston and parked in front of @internetarchive, per @meganprelinger #bib12

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A bit is as much information as is needed to say a light bulb is on or off. Ironically. #bib12 #iloveblackouts

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http://Archive.org - почти 10 петабайт контента. И полмиллиона посетителей в день #bib12 #fb pic.twitter.com/VIrTT7yX



25 Oct Tico Ballagas @TicoBallagas

Internet archive announces tv news search &borrow. #bib12

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5 петабайт интернета в Архиве, 230 млрд страниц #BiB12

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@andrewsavikas batteries! we are undaunted. #BiB12






25 Oct Shannon @mazarines

MT @MeganPrelinger: #bib12 Internet Archive announces that all known Balinese literature will be digitized & put onlinehttp://www.archive.org

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Anyone want to split a cab over to the Lush Lounge after this is over? #bib12

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Power outage at the Internet Archive - the sparkly lights of the servers have gone dark. #bib12

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Interesting video technology from Mozilla: http://mozillapopcorn.org #bib12

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3 млн книг - это 1,2 петабайт. Ого #BiB12



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+1 RT @hughmcguire: RT @kirkbiglione: The lights are out at the Internet Archive, but wifi is still working. Priorities. #bib12.

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Hanging in the dark with @brewster_kahle at the @internetarchive #bib12 pic.twitter.com/uluATcXl



25 Oct Kirk Biglione @kirkbiglione

Despite everything you’ve heard about the future of books the Internet Archive is investing heavily in containers. #bib12.

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Who's the happy little padawan running around with the red light at #bib12? Love it.

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Books in Browsers, by Fritz Lang #bib12 pic.twitter.com/Mcm2BEsI



25 Oct Megan Prelinger @MeganPrelinger

#bib12 Internet Archive announces the entirety of known Balinese literature to be digitized and put online http://www.archive.org (to come)

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Entire literature of Bali (!) online, says Kahle. #BiB12

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Party at the Internet Archive. Power’s out. @brewster_kahle is carrying the hell on. #BiB12 pic.twitter.com/38vHndOl




Writing on palm leaves: a significant upgrade from InDesign. #bib12

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25 Oct Simon Groth @simongroth

Perfect! RT @kirkbiglione: The lights are out at the Internet Archive, but wifi is still working. Priorities. #bib12.

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25 Oct Adam Witwer @adamwitwer

Lights out, but the wireless still works at #BiB12. They're like wizards at the @internetarchive.




Power is out at the Internet Archive but that's not slowing down their 10 petabyte party! #bib12 pic.twitter.com/fUGVlMZJ



25 Oct Megan Prelinger @MeganPrelinger

#bib12 somehow Internet Archive has their slides up in spite of neighborhood blackout - powerful 10 petabyte milestone!

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Power outage at the @InternetArchive just before the evening program! #bib12 http://flic.kr/p/dnRXnc







The lights are out at the Internet Archive, but wifi is still working. Priorities. #bib12.

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Das blinkenlights, or, as Brewster Kahle points out, the dark alcoves tonight. #BiB12

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25 Oct Patty Chase @pattychase919

Who needs power? The party goes on anyway! @Brewster_Kahle is electrifying! #BooksinBlackout #bib12 http://twitpic.com/b7eae4




.@brewster_kahle celebrates the 10 Petabytes of Internet Archive. #bib12 http://cl.ly/KRua

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Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. #lockss #internetarchive #bib12



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The 10 Petabyte Milestone at the @internetarchive...though the servers are off :) #bib12

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#bib12 is LITRALLY lights-out awesome.

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The veil between powered and unplugged is thin tonight. #Bib12

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В архиве интернета, однако, блэкаут. Прикольно. Подключили аккумуляторы. #BiB12

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Wonderful! RT @andrewsavikas: Books in Blackout? #bib12

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little people, flashlights in the dark, organ playing. I've seen this b4 #bib12

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#bib12 is going unplugged. (Literally. The power went out on the block.)

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this is, by the way, cool. #bib12 #blackout #bluegrass

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Books in Blackout? #bib12

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Anyone trying to access the Wayback Machine right now will not be able to. #bib12

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Oooooh, we can SO DO THIS. #bib12

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Man, @brewster_kahle is just an amazing, fun guy. #bib12

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Internet Archive Unplugged #bib12

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#BiB12 If the power comes back on, organist Donald Knuth will play an organ concert for us. @Brewster_Kahle is on the case.:)

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Брюстер Кале об Архиве интернета #bib12 pic.twitter.com/vxv7azKV




Internet Archive Unplugged. As if! #BiB12

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We are SOLDIERING ON despite power. Books in Browsers Unplugged. #bib12

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Uh oh, it's systemic. #poweroutage #bib12

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Don Knuth playing the organ at the Internet Archive 1 petabyte party blew not only our minds but also the power to the block!#bib12



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#BiB12 We have lost power at the @InternetArchive ... our organ concert is on hold while they work on the situation. :)

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Power is out at Internet Archive. @katmeyer: "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET RID OF PRINT BOOKS"#heresy #bib12

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Fundraising opportunity! #bib12

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25 Oct Maureen Evans @Maureen

Drunk on ideas, words and web, wine and books. Play us off, Donald Knuth! #bib12

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25 Oct Erin McKean @emckean

Confirmed: Donald Knuth is playing the organ. #BIB12 #awesome

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Current status: drinking Wine, listening to Don Knuth’s organ recital & watching random people’s home movies at the InternetArchive #bib12

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Organ playing at #bib12 sounds AMAZING. Let's all please commit to suppress organ jokes. Please?

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@ChrisKubica Hate to say I know who that is, but for thinking of it you are now the Geek Leader at #bib12. Congrats!



25 Oct Chris Kubica @ChrisKubica

#bib12 should offer Bib Fortuna t-shirts.

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I did not know the legendary Don Knuth plays the organ #til #bib12 pic.twitter.com/wwr4Hrn6



25 Oct Vitaly (31+) @alximic

А есть что-нибудь доброе и семейное, но с мясом? ) RT @v_x: вегатарианцев в Архиве интернета кормят долмой с рисом иминдалем.Ммм #BiB12 #fb

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А вегатарианцев в Архиве интернета кормят долмой с рисом и миндалем. Ммм… #BiB12 #fb

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RT @plympton: Sign up at http://readmill.com/iphone to be an early tester of the just-announced @Readmill app! Announced at#bib12

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25 Oct Michael Tamblyn @mtamblyn



In the presence of greatness! Comp Sci legend Donald Knuth plays the organ at #BIB12 #TAOCPfanboypic.twitter.com/HNka0kJd



25 Oct HeatherReid @hjreid

Great question! RT @lianaholmberg: How do independent bookstores fit in a world of web books? #bib12

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25 Oct Ben Firshman @bfirsh

Don Knuth closes with an organ recital. This is the best. #bib12 @ Internet Archive http://instagr.am/p/ROb3eeGhVk/



25 Oct INSEAD Bay Area @INSEADBayArea

Tired of watching the political debates? Checkout what they actually said in their books :-) http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html #bib12

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Золотое сечение в интернет-архиве #bib12 pic.twitter.com/2YWGsMMT






Пи в интернет-архиве #bib12 pic.twitter.com/UAUoySde




Еще один совриск в Архиве интернета на #bib12 - маятник Фуко над стопкой винтов #fb pic.twitter.com/6SS5vnPb




А в заверншение 1-го дня #bib12 играют моего любимого Баха. Орган-то Интернет-архиве настоящий! #fbpic.twitter.com/CFCUAdIy




Thank you so much for today's experience - feel I have been witnessing something very special. @napinya @Porter_Anderson#BiB12

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25 Oct Wine Bot @TheWineBot

Enjoy your wine! RT @CWhoa: Happy cocktail hour, #BiB12 peeps, I need a glass of wine after all that learning!

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Happy cocktail hour, #BiB12 peeps, I need a glass of wine after all that learning!

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+ 1 RT @anna_cn: Huge thanks to Peter Brantley @napinya for a fantastic first day at Books in Browsers conf #bib12

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Huge thanks to Peter Brantley @napinya for a fantastic first day at Books in Browsers conf #bib12

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#BiB12 @benrito of @mozilla has now Popped his Corn. And that's it for today. Tomorrow we start again at 8:30aPT /11:30aET. Thanks!

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I'm writing this chick lit style novel that involves travel and cooking, and all the neat tech tools at #BiB12 are thrilling, as a writer.

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.@benrito puts <everything> in the browser at #BiB12 - #popcornmaker edits interactive media https://popcorn.webmaker.org/

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Best presentation (for me) today at #BiB12: RT @jmaxsfu: My slides on Webby Markup from #BiB12 http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/bits/BiB/Maxwell-Slides-Wed.html …

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25 Oct Maureen Evans @youknowmo

To all tuned in to #bib12 livestream, I've told AV about the lost audio. Hope it improves for y'all, at least in time for Knuth.

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+1 million. “@liza: Best coworkers ever. @safaribooks #bib12”

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MT @jaumebalmes: Mozilla Popcorn maker :-{ BTW really good tool but, as he said, what about books? #BiB12

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Today's final #bib12 presentation raises intriguing possibilities for video annotation... for cogent analysis or propaganda both.

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#BiB12 lost audio feed so I wandered over to @popcornjs where they are asking for QA help: http://wiki.mozilla.org/PopcornMaker/QA

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25 Oct if:book Australia @ifbookAus

Sound back! Thanks guys! #bib12

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Firefox it's a not functionally browser for the Mozilla Popcorn maker :-{ BTW really good tool but, as he said, what about books?#BiB12

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25 Oct Christian Liboiron @Liboiron

RT @ashleighgardner: RT @mtamblyn: My @kobo #BIB12 presentation /data lessons/ - "What do we read? What do we*finish": http://prezi.com/jalwo7sx0eun/data-lessons-kobo-at-books-in-browsers-2012/ …

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Popcorn.js is amazing. #BiB12

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Somebody has counted how much references to the USA election speaker's do at the #BiB12 stage? it's weird for strangers :$

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Спектакль становится всё более протеичным. Добавить к этому AR - и вот вам футурологический конгресс Лема. Inaugmented reality… ##BiB12

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+1 RT @indiamos: Popcorn lets you manipulate video+audio in ways similar to text, might make it tolerable to me to watch video#BiB12

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Has someone knocked out an audio cable? We need that text/video tool now. #bib12

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25 Oct Lindsay Eyink @leyink

"Books in browsers? No no, everything in browsers." - @benrito demos popcorn.js which allows video and text to interact. Verycool. #bib12



25 Oct dassi @dassi

#bib12 sound aint workin on the live feed, people! please fix.

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My slides on Webby Markup from #BiB12 http://www.ccsp.sfu.ca/bits/BiB/Maxwell-Slides-Wed.html …

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@booksquare LOL, I am seriously loopy right now just from absorbing all of this. #thesingularity #bib12




#BiB12 @benrito of @Mozilla "When will we need a new definition of literacy?...or of media literacy?"

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http://mozillapopcorn.org/ сливает видео и текст в вебе - оч.забавно. Это правда уже своего рода синтез представления.#BiB12

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@indiamos Right???? I am a text gurrrl. #bib12




RT @ljndawson: There will be a tool next year that will allow u to edit audio/video by editing text. Mindblowing. #bib12

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#BiB12 I lost audio?

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Digging @benrito getting Transmetropolitain up in #bib12 with a media-bending Popcorn demo.

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Popcorn, which lets you manipulate video+audio in ways similar to text, might make it tolerable to me to occasionally watchvideos… #BiB12

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RT @atelier7_ana: RT @ljndawson: My preso from #bib12: When A Book Is Not A Book http://wp.me/p2jsUG-cD



25 Oct RC Richards @rrichard09

cc: @emasters MT @lizcastro: So, basically editing a video by copying and pasting the associated text. Very cool. #popcorn



#mozilla #bib12

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@ljndawson no, those are the little people ;) #bib12




#BiB12 @benrito of @Mozilla (ME: It's interesting that so many of @benrito's examples of this are political.)

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So, basically editing a video by copying and pasting the associated text. Very cool. #popcorn #mozilla #bib12 cc @mboas

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Textual analysis tools that @benrito is showing now are...INCREDIBLE #bib12

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! With Popcorn + upcoming tool, you will be able to select section of transcript from various movies, then render to get singlevideo #bib12

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Lots of links in the endnotes. RT @pablod: I've posted the slides for my #bib12 talk, 'Reading on the big screen,' http://bit.ly/Rjkxw8




Videographers, sit up and take note of Mozilla Popcorn being demoed by @benrito now http://mozillapopcorn.org/ #BIB12

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There will be a tool next year that will allow u to edit audio/video by editing text. Mindblowing. #bib12

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RT@jwikert: Listening to @stefaniesyman at #BiB12 makes me realize ebooks are in the "horseless carriage" stage cars were in

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RT @BiblioCrunch: : We're giving anyone at #bib12 a 50% discount code for premium services http://bit.ly/Q2p3M2 Code:Bib12

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some big new thoughts about the future of the book in my mind right now. incumbents! what incumbents? #bib12

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25 Oct Johanne Worsaae @worsaae

Woohoo Danish @harddisken at #bib12 ! #popcorn




: We're giving anyone at #bib12 a 50% discount code for premium services http://bit.ly/Q2p3M2 Code: Bib12

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I do like this functionality of clicking on a transcript & hearing the audio for that portion. #bib12

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I don't know if #bib12 is still livestreaming, but if it is, you at home could've just learned our speaker's ringtone is "CarelessWhisper."

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Ooh, @benrito on Mozilla's @FSMpopcorn storytelling. Gives you the sources and metadata, big opportunities for remixing!#BiB12

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RT @pablod: I've posted the slides for my #bib12 talk, 'Reading on the big screen,' on @slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/pablodefendini/reading-on-the-big-screen …




My preso from #bib12: When A Book Is Not A Book http://wp.me/p2jsUG-cD





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25 Oct Hugh McGuire @hughmcguire

amen. RT @craigmod: "Working with publishers is really, really soul-crushingly hard." — @gunzalis #bib12

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@Porter_Anderson @benrito @mozilla @FSMpopcorn love the idea! Slow on getting what the name means #bib12




#BiB12 @benrito of @Mozilla "Popcorn" from @FSMPopcorn is designed to "weave video into the web."

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I've posted the slides for my #bib12 talk, 'Reading on the big screen,' on @slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/pablodefendini/reading-on-the-big-screen …




#BiB12 @benrito of @Mozilla has shown us a video essay that morphs repetition of talking points into a litany-recitative in 2004politics.



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OMG. I am so glad 2004 is over. #bib12

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25 Oct Henrik Berggren @henrikberggren

Thanks for the nice words everyone #bib12 Was super fun presenting.

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25 Oct Ashleigh Gardner @AshleighGardner

RT @mtamblyn: My @kobo #BIB12 presentation /data lessons/ - "What do we read? What do we *finish" is now available.http://prezi.com/jalwo7sx0eun/data-lessons-kobo-at-books-in-browsers-2012/ …

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#bib12 Pixel Qi presentation up first for Friday AM. Excited to hear @mljmljmlj talk about where they're going next.

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#BiB12 @benrito of @Mozilla is talking about "textuality" and rich media (engaging, mimetic, memetic) merging intosomething more.

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Creepy little fake people our speakers keep talking to at #bib12 http://instagr.am/p/ROXdtARl3H/




How do independent bookstores fit in a world of web books? #bib12

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#BiB12 @benrito of @Mozilla is now speaking, our last preso of the day at Books in Browsers.

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@benrito up now. #bib12

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А теперь нас накормят Попкорном от Mozilla #BiB12

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Somewhat relieved to have finished my #bib12 over-sharing session. Thanks for the support everyone – I perversely enjoyed it.

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Best coworkers ever. @safaribooks #bib12

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@lizcastro Big fan! Can't wait to hear your talk! #bib12




@ficklepixel Wow! And only October. It's early, no? And yes, enjoying #bib12, tho a bit jetlagged (and nervous about speakingtomorrow)





25 Oct Tim Brandhorst @TimBrandhorst

True==> RT@jwikert: Listening to @StefanieSyman at #BiB12 makes me realize ebooks are in the "horseless carriage" stagecars were in #TOCcon

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Unfortunately live #BiB12 stopped working Cinderella like at midnight - giving up now, time for sleep

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Honestly, I was expecting more snark from the #BiB12 twitter peanut gallery.

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Ha! I turn up and everyone leaves for a 15 minute break. Was it something I said? #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks finishes up now, and @benrito of @Mozilla will be speaking next, in about 15 minutes.

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The Life in #Publishing Tumblr. http://jmcd.me/SBcN6M MT @annetreasure PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT #bib12#TOCcon #PubWest #pubwest2012




Killer combo at #bib12: Short talks and plenty of breaks. :-)

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big board reading. Fascinating. Tis needs much more thought by me. @pablod #bib12

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@Porter_Anderson And massively immersive ones! @pablod #bib12


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Пабло Дефендини @pablod из Сафари Букс Онлайн о книгах на ооочень больших экранах. Футуристично. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks If we take these new interfaces into consideration, we can generate innovative readerexperiences.

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He's got vision, @pablod does. #bib12

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"Reading on the Big Screen": via 'slinging services' e.g. Airplay we can bridge common/big screens & individualized devices@pablod #bib12

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Date night! RT @katepullinger: RT @kirkbiglione: The next frontier in social reading: Drive-in ebooks. #bib12

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second screen content - a use case for the Big Board #bib12, this is intruiging. @pablod

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Finally at the office to watch the #bib12 live stream. Stupid round Earth and its time zones. http://toc.oreilly.com

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Children's books and visual books on the big screen! Complementary content! Comments! Character chats! @pablod isfascinating, again. #BiB12

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I see the use case for kids books on big screens... I guess a bit like the interactive white board trend. #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks The big board format might work for illustrated #books' display (kids' books, coffee tablebooks).

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Books in Browsers at the Internet Archive . #bib12 http://instagr.am/p/ROUv5CKvKy/




Digital broadsheet (big screen) allows more room for contextualizing stuff around content - related media, comments, etc. -@pablod #bib12

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RT @plympton: Sign up at http://readmill.com/iphone to be an early tester of the just-announced @readmill app! Announced at#bib12

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Many #bib12 tweets re: publishers working w/ startups (@gunzalis), and at #mcn2012 in 2 wks, I'll be talking museums &startups. #zeitgeist



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Ouch. Responsive design for big/tv screens is hard, says @pablod "arbitrary breakpoints" #bib12

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All the displays in our house are driven by Apple HW. Want to integrate our media so it can appear on ANY screen easily. #bib12#bigboard

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#BiB12 my forecast for #bib13 - anybody from Google Play with lecture about books in Google Glass ;)

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I am so there. RT @kirkbiglione: The next frontier in social reading: Drive-in ebooks. #bib12

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Sign up at http://readmill.com/iphone to be an early tester of the just-announced @readmill app! Announced at #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks. Designing for the big board (screen) is low-res + big viewing distance = low-info density.

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks: Designing for the digital broadsheet (screen) is hi-res + close-viewing = hi-info density.

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Human-Were-Dolphin erotica genre had a bizarre 100% completion rates on Kobo. Investigation revealed had ppl shamed ofcovers. #bib12

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Interesante la reflexión de @pablod en #BiB12 sobre los hábitos de lectura en la gran pantalla (TV) versus otras pantallas (PC,tabletas)

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The next frontier in social reading: Drive-in ebooks. #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBook Larger screens are either "digital broadsheets" (22-30") or what Pablo calls "the big board"(30-60").

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Netflix has lots of books re-formatted for the big home screen. #bib12

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LOVE it. RT @jmaxsfu: @agwieckowski The so-called Gutenberg Parenthesis. #bib12






Digital broadsheet (monitors) vs The Big Board (TVs) @pablod #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod talking about reading on large screens (cool topic!): not portable, persistent, shared

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"Slinging services, like Airplay, are killer, because they convert a common screen into an individualized device." @pablod#bib12

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Unlike small screens (phone, computer), big screens (TV) are seen from farther away, shared display, and run in background@pablod #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks Large screens are not portable; persistent (on in the background); viewed from a distance;shared display.

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I used to hook my laptop up to my big flat-screen Vizio & compute from an armchair. #bib12

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RT @ftoolan: take-away from @gunzalis: dont fall in love with your assumptions.You need to test them before you bet yourmoney on dev #bib12

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#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks "The big screen, we've always had in the living room...quarantined from the rest of ourexperience."

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"We've always had a big screen in the living room, but they're been quarantined from rest of our experience" @pablod #bib12

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Oh yay, @pablod at #BiB12! Last year he filmed his iPad with his iPhone to show us his graphic novel app, right? That was him?



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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ted-books/id511071050?ls=1&mt=8 … Ted Books app уже на платформе Атавист #BiB12

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RT @Marco4623: hyperlinks+google+wikipedia, flickr+tumblr, googlemaps+geolocation are our new reading habits@stefaniesyman #atavist #bib12

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25 Oct The Atavist @theatavist

@rdhyee Here's one example, by @StryUs: http://stryus.atavist.com/story/295#/chapter/1/ … #bib12




#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks. "We've been living in a small-screen world." (Handhelds, small & large tablets, generalcomputing devices.)

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I gave out most of my @BiblioCrunch gum, but still have loads of pens. #swag #bib12

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Great talk by @stefaniesyman of @theatavist about reading in the browser in 1996 (Feed Mag), leaving for apps, and nowreturning. #bib12

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The little people are watching. #bib12 @ Internet Archive http://instagr.am/p/ROTbfPILqg/




@pablod on The Big Screen! I love a big screen. #bib12

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Books in Browsers folks. Please check out the alpha test of http://www.ownshelf.com . #BIB12

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big take-away from @gunzalis: don't fall in love with your assumptions.You need to test them before you bet all your money ondev #bib12

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Go @pablod! #bib12




#BiB12 @pablod of @SafariBooks is getting set up now...

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Listening to @StefanieSyman at #BiB12 makes me realize ebooks are in the "horseless carriage" stage cars were in originally.#TOCcon

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RT @maxfenton: “We had to leave the browser to come back to it.” —@stefaniesyman on @theatavist #bib12

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#BiB12 @stefaniesyman of @TheAtavist is finishing up now, and @pablod of @SafariBooks is next.

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@agwieckowski The so-called Gutenberg Parenthesis. #bib12




RT @maxfenton: “Flickr + Google Image + Tumblr = we expect visual information to be equally accessible” —@stefaniesyman#bib12

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"It has only been a relatively brief period of human history during which the story was fixed and bound into a book" -@stefaniesyman #bib12

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Can someone point out an example @theatavist-powered story that we can look at for free? #BiB12

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#BiB12 @stefaniesyman of @TheAtavist speaks of "the persistence of the story" even as we "explode the container."

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“We had to leave the browser to come back to it.” —@stefaniesyman on @theatavist #bib12

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25 Oct Frances Uku @missuku

@RonHogan I've made my muckraking quota for the day, so I'll let you return to live tweeting in peace. Look, @theatavistemployee #1! #bib12




@stefaniesyman places the development of digital reading experiences built around our actual reading habits in 2011. #BiB12

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Собственно, Атавист это все вместе и сводит. ##BiB12

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#BiB12 @stefaniesyman on @TheAtavist's 2011 launch: "An immersive reading experience...take those side trips when youwant to."

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“Flickr + Google Image + Tumblr = we expect visual information to be equally accessible” —@stefaniesyman #bib12

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hyperlinks+google+wikipedia, flickr+tumblr, googlemaps+geolocation are our new reading habits @stefaniesyman #atavist#bib12

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@stefaniesyman's user-centered walkthrough of the electronic reading experience to date is really solid. #BiB12

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+1 RT @agwieckowski: The oddness of Twitter...meeting people for the first time who seem like old friends at #bib12

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Links+Google+Wikipedia / Flickr+GoogleImages+Tumblr / GoogleMaps+Mapquest+GPS : our new reading habits #BiB12

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“Hyperlinks + Google + Wikipedia = we expect additional, relevant info to be a click away” —@stefaniesyman #bib12

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.@stefaniesyman on our new reading habits #bib12 http://img.ly/oV91

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Yes, indeed. :) RT @agwieckowski: The oddness of Twitter...meeting people for the first time who seem like old friends at #bib12

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Now listening to @stefaniesyman talk about https://www.atavist.com/ #BiB12

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Not sure if 'enjoyed' is right word for @gunzalis presentation at #bib12 but it was a great, thought provoking talk.

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$#@%ing endnotes in Infinite Jest! #bib12

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@gunzalis My takeaway. There’s a real opportunity for publishing startups specializing in shallow data and vanity metrics.#BiB12

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Стефани Саймэн из Atavist, которые делают long form articles #BiB12

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Want to talk about @Kobo's Data Lessons at #BiB12 on @branch? It's my first Branch, thought I'd start w/ you allhttp://branch.com/b/data-lessons-kobo-at-books-in-browsers-2012-by-michael-ta …

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#BiB12 @stefaniesyman of @TheAtavist now is talking to us on how personal the reading experience can be for each of us.

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The oddness of Twitter...meeting people for the first time who seem like old friends at #bib12

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surveying the #bib12 attendees, it seems the clothing palette is nearly uniformly [sic] earth tones, with a smattering of red (myself



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Sign up at http://readmill.com/iphone to be an early tester of the just-announced @readmill for iPhone! Announced at #bib12

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25 Oct Lane Ashfeldt @Ashfeldt

@micycle @gunzalis WHAT talent finding antenna - except for indie presses, publishers outsource talent finding to interns andagents #bib12




si. RT @ljndawson: I am tired. This stuff is massively cool and exhausting. #wornoutbyideas #bib12

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#BiB12 When we're back from break, it's @stefaniesyman of @TheAtavist and @pablod of @SafariBooks...not long now.

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@arhomberg I also think pubs can barely keep up w the day-by-day: new partnerships are tougher than they shd be. @micycle@gunzalis #bib12




@ljndawson Liquid salvation lies only a few hours away, at the Bluefire party courtesy of the great @micahsb #bib12




I am tired. This stuff is massively cool and exhausting. #wornoutbyideas #bib12

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25 Oct David Dalka @dalka

@agwieckowski Thanks. I think we should refocus on producing high quality, original books from fresh authors that change theworld. #bib12




You go, Fran. :) MT @ftoolan: agree w/ @gunzalis, working w/ pubs is hard, but we're still here 25 years later, not impossible#bib12

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"@LanceEllisor: Anyone have a browser-based book reader ...?" I am fixing up an open source html5 proj. Ping me if interested .#bib12

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@RonHogan: Instead of John Locke as a self-pubbed success , for example, it'd be just as viable to use a headshot of AmandaHocking. #bib12

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25 Oct Frances Uku @missuku

@RonHogan Don't imagine you'll get much *engagement* on that tweet, but it is appreciated (by me) @gunzalis #bib12#publishing




agree with @gunzalis that working with publishers is very hard, but we're still here 25 years later, so it's not impossible #bib12

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Saying I'm kind of excited that we get to see Donald Knuth play the organ tonight would be an understatement. #bib12

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.@naypinya is just amazing! Thanks! #bib12

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#BiB12 is in a 15-minute break. @Naypinya says we'll then do a 90-minute session, then a reception with friends of@InternetArchive.

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RT @mtamblyn: My @kobo #BIB12 presentation /data lessons/ - "What do we read? What do we *finish" is now available.http://prezi.com/jalwo7sx0eun/data-lessons-kobo-at-books-in-browsers-2012/ …

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The @gunzalis #bib12 presentation was great, although I do wish the slide of new publishing innovators was not 100% whiteguys.

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@gunzalis #bib12 gave a riveting presentation on startups, publishing, pivoting and failing. #verytrue #soundsfamiliar#thattookguts

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Anyone have a browser-based book reader they want to sell to my company? If so, find me. Brown jacket over green shirt. #bib12

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25 Oct Lorna Suzuki @LornaSuzuki

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @gunzalis "We overplayed the importance of tools and underplayed the importance of skills."

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RT @micycle: "Publishers should use their talent finding antenna to find startups to work with" @gunzalis #bib12

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25 Oct Mapi Marco @MapiMarco



@TomArinez RT"@javiercelaya: Comparte todo lo que lees a través de Readmill http://bit.ly/PT8Ldd #BiB12"

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @gunzalis "Publishers on the whole find data very scary. 'Your app gives my boss a reason tofire me.'"

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trying to reconcile @craigmod's advice with subcompact publishing, and @gunzalis talk about difficulty with getting started…#bib12

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@CWhoa A lot of this comes down to semantics/words and things to do with words. #bib12




@charabbott I know! Me too! #bib12






Wonderful talk about the importance of data & transparency + the difficulty of working with publishers by @gunzalis #bib12

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Las editoriales deberían trabajar más con start-ups para crear alternativas que puedan competir contra Amazon @gunzalis #BiB12

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It gives me hope RT @ljndawson: Shocking number of ppl in booktech are English majors. @gunzalis @adamwitwer #alsome#bib12

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#BiB12 @gunzalis "Finally, it is OK to fail. (And, we're hiring.)" -- Peter Collingridge is taking some quick Q&A.

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Woot woot! RT @ljndawson Shocking number of ppl in booktech are English majors. @gunzalis @adamwitwer #alsome#bib12

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"Publishers should use their talent finding antenna to find startups to work with" @gunzalis #bib12

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authors are becoming a more powerful market for book tech startups @gunzalis #bib12

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Data is mission critical for publishing - especially for lit majors says @gunzalis #bib12

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My @Kobo #BIB12 presentation /data lessons/ - "What do we read? What do we *finish" is now available. http://prezi.com/jalwo7sx0eun/data-lessons-kobo-at-books-in-browsers-2012/ …

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#BiB12 @gunzalis There are these people who will define the future of publishing (he shows shots of @eries, Godin, @tferriss,etc.

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“We overplayed the importance of tools, and underplayed the importance of new skills.” - @gunzalis at #bib12

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Marketing staff do not want to know about detailed data if it's going to show how ineffective they are at their jobs, says@Gunzalis. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @gunzalis says that data is still mission-critical. And he reiterates that working w/ #publishers was "soul-crushinglytough."

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25 Oct Casey Dougherty @ficklepixel

Missing #bib12, but tough to beat #eprdctn by the wood stove with snow outside. Also, @Oatmeal book signing tonight. Not abad day...

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Investor advice to @gunzalis: "don't work with publishers, work with authors" #bib12

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Somewhat surprised that Nielsen Bookscan hasn't been mentioned until now. Maybe because the ebook panel is still under way?#bib12

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There's that word "soul-crushing" again. #bib12 @gunzalis

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Shocking number of ppl in booktech are English majors. @gunzalis @adamwitwer #alsome #bib12

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#BiB12 @gunzalis "We overplayed the importance of tools and underplayed the importance of skills."



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#BiB12 @gunzalis "Turkeys don't vote for Christmas." -- an investor on the idea of bringing better, actionable data to the table.

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"Turkeys don't vote for Christmas!" #bib12 @gunzalis

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25 Oct MobNotate @mobnotate


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RT @ftoolan: @gunzalis #bib12 publishers find data scary and prefer vanity metrics.

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@agwieckowski I (and others) had an idea http://www.loscuentosdelabuelo.com/2012/08/a-proposal-for-publishing-startup.html?m=1 … #BiB12




#BiB12 @gunzalis "Publishers on the whole find data very scary. 'Your app gives my boss a reason to fire me.'"

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@gunzalis #bib12 publishers find data scary and prefer vanity metrics.

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"Publishers find data scary (and prefer vanity metrics)" @gunzalis #bib12

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“Publishers are terrible not just at marketing digital products, but at marketing in general.” —@Gunzalis #BiB12

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Publishers are terrible at marketing period. #bib12 @gunzalis

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@justohidalgo Yep. @gunzalis #bib12




@ljndawson @gunzalis and then drill down. If not, they'll still be vanity metrics #justsaying #BiB12




...the data we do have, "data exhaust", a vapour that tells a story... #BiB12 @Gunzalis

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"Artisanal analytics"! Ha, only in San Francisco! #bib12



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RT @agwieckowski: Any examples of publishers working *well* w startups? Both pubs and startups want to make thisbetter--but how? #bib12

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#BiB12 @Gunzalis has referred to this controversial post from @fakebaldur at @TheFutureBook: http://ow.ly/eMdAM

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#bib12 live stream looks *fantastic* on AppleTV over Air Play \cc @toc

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Any examples of publishers working *well* w startups? I think both pubs and startups want to make this better--but how? #bib12

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Metrics are great except they are silo'd and therefore "vanity metrics". Aggregate them, see the whole pic. @gunzalis #bib12

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#BiB12 @Gunzalis quotes @fakebaldur: "There is no way you can discover actionable facts" from data supplied by publishingplatforms.

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Ha, @Gunzalis ripping BandAids off the publishing industry at #BiB12.

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@agwieckowski my #BiB12 is down :(




Spray. And pray - 1-й принцип традиционного издателя (Коллингридж) #BiB12

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#BiB12 @Gunzalis "Modern marketing tools and techniques (familiar to digital successes like @Amazon) are largely unknownto #publishers."

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@anna_cn Great, will come find you later, Anna! Could be a great add-in for our digital magazine platform @makewoopie too#bib12




#BiB12 @Gunzalis "Publishers are terrible at marketing digital." But Jeff Bezos says "data trumps" all else. Publishers needmarketing data.

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"publishers are terrible in marketing digital products" @gunzalis #bib12

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25 Oct Krista Stevens @kristastevens



The Books in Browsers conference has an awesome, free livestream: http://toc.oreilly.com/ #bib12

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"Pivot! "- @gunzalis #bib12

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"Tldr: apps are not the great saviour of publishing." @gunzalis #bib12

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RT @maxfenton: “Publishers are terrible at marketing digital products.” —@gunzalis #bib12

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Publishers are terrible in marketing of digital products - коллингридж #bib12 потратить 30 килобаксов на апп и сделатьпресс-релиз

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"Publishers are terrible at marketing digital products." lessons from @gunzalis #bib12

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#BiB12 @Gunzalis says #publishers would put $30,000 into an app and launch it with a news release and tweets.

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Product strategy: +$30k app. Launch strategy: Press release and a tweet. —@Gunzalis #BiB12

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Launch strategy =/= press release and a tweet. @gunzalis #bib12

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“Publishers are terrible at marketing digital products.” —@gunzalis #bib12

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“Apps are not the savior of publishing.” —@gunzalis #bib12

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Apps are not the savior of publishing. - @gunzalis #bib12

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#BiB12 @Gunzalis says "working with #publishers is really, really, soul-crushingly hard." :) Goes over 18 months of negos w/publishers.

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RT @indiamos: “Working with publishers is really, really, soul-crushingly hard.” —Peter Collingridge #BiB12

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Fracasar es una opción. Admirable la sinceridad del emprendedor digital @gunzalis en #BiB12 La unica manera de progresar esfracasando



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25 Oct Charles Catton @crgc

This-> RT @ljndawson: @jmaxsfu Seriously, it's not like the world is short on content. We can afford to ignore Big Six if wewant. #bib12

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@gunzalis #bib12 talking about how difficult it is to work with publishers - "soul crushing" my soul must have a thick skin

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25 Oct Daisuke Muro @dicekmuro

　readmillがiPhone版を近く発表 #bib12

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“Working with publishers is really, really, soul-crushingly hard.” —Peter Collingridge #BiB12

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"Working with publishers is really, really soul-crushingly hard." — @gunzalis #bib12




Yo, publishers in the room - stop crushing souls! #bib12

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RT @kissane: Sign up at http://readmill.com/iphone to be an early tester of the just-announced @readmill for iPhone! #BiB12http://twitpic.com/b7d3ze




I've honestly been ignoring @Readmill this last year, and #BiB12 just convinced me it's awesome. Make notes, tweet the author,track self.

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.@gunzalis is about to talk about being among the 90% (99.9?) of startups that fail. I’m all ears and open heart. #bib12

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"It turns out that working with publishers is really, really, soul-crushingly hard." - @gunzalis #bib12

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Давний знакомый Питер Коллингридж на #BiB12

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@gunzalis: "Working with publishers is soul-crushingly hard" #bib12

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.@gunzalis now talking about how to fail at startups #bib12

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#BiB12 is switching now to @Gunzalis with "Failure is an Option." @EnhancedEdition and #Bookseer.



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Sign up at http://readmill.com/iphone to be an early tester of the just-announced @readmill for iPhone! #BiB12http://twitpic.com/b7d3ze




#BiB12 small screen is good for reading, but not battery of small device ;(

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Darn it...I have a @Readmill T-Shirt at home and I forgot to wear it! #bib12 Nice on @henrikberggren

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Readmill coming to iPhone! http://readmill.com/iphone #bib12






И скоро readmill будет и в айфоне. Точно нужен кейс с дополнительной батареей. #BiB12

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25 Oct Krista Stevens @kristastevens

Yes! @Readmill is coming to the small screen: sign up here for early access: http://readmill.com/iphone #bib12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren says @readmill's social reading program consolidates (your books) and connects you (with otherreaders).

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“Sometimes I log in just to gaze at my highlights.” —@readmill user. Annotations are very important to some readers.@henrikberggren #bib12

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Shoutout to @richardjingram from the #bib12 stage.

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren "We also found out there are as many ways to read as there are readers." (One likes to "gaze at myhighlights.")

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I'm not in NY, but i'm watching #bib12 : http://bit.ly/RmljHa - A response to stimulating presentations @kinwong &@hughmcguire (in french)

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Highlights turn into "artifacts" #bib12

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“There are as many ways to read as there are readers.” —@henrikberggren #bib12

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"There are as many ways to read as there are readers." @henrikbergen #bib12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren creates "a real-time communication channel between reader and #author" when someone startsreading a book.

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MT @indiamos: no increased eyestrain w/reading on backlit screen; it depends on hw reading experience is designed.—@henrikberggren #BiB12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren "People have been sharing books by word of mouth for decades." Motivating reading is part of@readmill's interest.

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"Reading is like a run for your mind" nice, @Readmill! #BiB12

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reading is kind of like running for your mind - henrik berggren @readmill #bib12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren "Reading is like a run for your mind. We're building the tools to get you running again" at @readmill

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25 Oct Roberto Greco @rogre

@jmandala Wondering if you're following #bib12, especially reading this https://twitter.com/maxfenton/status/261590423250796545 … and thinking about your project…

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"Time is not something you have. You make time." @readmill says this is important for understanding the future of reading.#bib12

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25 Oct Jori Lallo @jorilallo

@kissane You at #bib12 as well? Would be lovely to meet up, I'll leave it to @maxfenton






RT @maxfenton: “People really want to read on small screens. I think the iPhone is the reading device of the future.”@henrikberggren #bib12

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@arhomberg We miss you… #bib12




"Time is not something you have. You make time to do the things you want." @henrikbergen #bib12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren says that when you talk to people about reading, they say "I wish I had more time." But the key is tomake time.

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@miralsattar Depends on original author contract. Legally, probably not; in actuality pubs need them on board. @jmaxsfu@anna_cn #bib12




RT @sabsky: Margins and typography affect ease of reading rather than eink v backlight @readmill #bib12

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25 Oct Nicole Jones @nicoleslaw

The easier you make it to read, the more people can read. @henrikberggren #bib12

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There’s no increased eyestrain w/reading on a backlit screen; it all depends on how reading experience is designed.—@henrikberggren #BiB12

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25 Oct Citia @GoCitia

RT @hughmcguire: My slides of "Opening the Book" http://www.slideshare.net/mackinaw/opening-the-book … #bib12






Yep! Great for one handed reading. ESP in long lines RT @sabsky: Phones are the reading devices of the future @readmill#bib12

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25 Oct Joan Pujolar @jpujolar

Rather, I feel we will "plug" our iPhones to many devices. iPhones will act as "personal processors" @lizcastro@henrikberggren #bib12

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Looks like she's an avid commenter! #bib12 #caterinafake

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We at @unglueit implemented the @Readmill button -- for example, for *Oral Literature in Africa*: https://unglue.it/work/81834/ #BiB12

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Margins and typography affect ease of reading rather than eink v backlight @readmill #bib12

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"Formatting of ebook is much more significant than backlighting in reading experience" @henrikberggren #bib12 #roughquote

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RT @kissane: Some of @Readmill's publishing partners are seeing 30% of their web customers use the "Send to Readmill"button. #BiB12

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@agwieckowski @jmaxsfu would authors need to have a say whether their data can be open? #bib12 @anna_cn




"People really, really want to read on small screens." —@henrikberggren of @Readmill #bib12


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@liza be nice to .biz. it's the clueless lil puppy of the intertubes #bib12




Today & tomorrow: the future of reading livestreaming from Books in Browsers conf #BiB12 - http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc




Phones are the reading devices of the future @readmill #bib12

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RT @maxfenton “People really want to read on small screens. I think the iPhone is the reading device of the future.”—@henrikberggren #bib12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren says the #iPhone, #mobile phones, are the "device of the future."

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No @valobox talk for me #BiB12 stream is down again, probably talk talk throttling me

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"I believe that phones, and iPhone, are reading device of future." @henrikberggren (and of the present, it's my favorite ereader)#bib12

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Some of @readmill's publishing partners are seeing 30% of their web customers use the "Send to Readmill" button. #BiB12

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“People really want to read on small screens. I think the iPhone is the reading device of the future.” —@henrikberggren #bib12

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"People really want to read on small screens." - @henrikberggren #bib12

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On stage now: @readmill #bib12 pic.twitter.com/g1dkDqi4




Yes, curious re biz model RT @jmaxsfu: ValoBox sounds impressive, but must rely on a rare level of openness fm partnerpublishers? #bib12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren "How do you get from buying to reading in a very simple way" when you're not @Amazon?

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@lizcastro I know, me too!!!! #bib12 #squee


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"Buying ebooks from retailers is very hard." - @henrikberggren And they make it even harder for pubs to sell directly. #bib12

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.biz, really? #bib12

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Right now, “buying ebooks from retailers is insanely complicated.” —@henrikberggren of @Readmill #bib12

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Хенрик Берггрен из Readmill о том, что книгопродавцы и книгоиздатели, в общем, не для читателей #BiB12

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#BiB12 @henrikberggren "There are so many ways for readers to acquire content these days..buying from retailers is insane formany readers."



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Ooh, I recognize that beautiful opera house bookstore from Buenos Aires in @henrikberggren 's slides. #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: @jmaxsfu I think we just don't DEAL w/ pubs who aren't willing to be open.#thisiswhytheycanthavenicethings #bib12

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@jmaxsfu Seriously, it's not like the world is short on content. We can afford to ignore Big Six if we want. #bib12




#BiB12 @henrikberggren of @readmill calls this Berlin startup "an easier and more beautiful way" for readers to share theirdiscoveries.

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Comparte todo lo que lees a través de Readmill http://bit.ly/PT8Ldd #BiB12

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Whew, that was swift, thank you! @agwieckowski @adamwitwer @jaumebalmes Pi meets Golden ratio #BiB12

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@jmaxsfu I think we just don't DEAL w/ pubs who aren't willing to be open. #thisiswhytheycanthavenicethings #bib12




#BiB12 now switches from the @Valobox preso to @henrikberggren of @readmill on "Building a Service for Readers."

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If you're a startup and going to London BookFair, let @anna_cn know. 'If we all run at them together, they'll have to payattention.' #bib12

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Finding Valobox's PAYG & per-page payments a fascinating idea for web / digital magazines like @readidea #bib12

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#bib12 might be the one publishing conference where you can break the "don't talk about APIs" rule - @anna_cn putting it to thetest

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@adamwitwer correcting typo before someone else does: 3.14159 #bib12




ValoBox sounds very impressive, but must rely on a rare level of openness (lack of fear) on the part of partner publishers? No?#bib12

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#BiB12 @Anna_cn A third approach uses an API to allow a subscription service on a site to access @Valobox content.

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And then Valobox facilitates having a subscription system?? Wow. @anna_cn #bib12

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25 Oct Zachary Fisher @senseshaper

Both useful and extraordinary! “@agwieckowski: RT @ljndawson: Every page on Velobooks has a unique URL. #bib12”

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@freshelectrons 1.61803... is the golden ratio @internetarchive @adamwitwer #bib12




@adamwitwer @freshelectrons @internetarchive and the other (on the right side it's Gold Number #BiB12





25 Oct Susana Alcalde @susamieva

Interesante! "@javiercelaya: Valobox, una tecnología que permite a los lectores pagar sólo por lo que lee http://bit.ly/MigbP5 #BiB12"

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RT @indiamos: “Those who connect with readers better will win.” —@hughmcguire #BiB12




@freshelectrons That's pi! 3.141589... #bib12 @internetarchive




.@anna_cn just corrected herself: "users," not "readers." Awful term but one that pubs need to embrace to get ebooks right.#bib12

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@lizcastro You know, if traditional pubs won't provide their content for us to play with, we can just write our own. & pubdomain. #bib12






What's a "valo"? @anna_cn #bib12

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Killer app of Valobox = ads monetised ebooks in a browser. #BiB12

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Why we don't have startup real (not smoke blufs) projects like that in Spain? #BiB12

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+1 RT @ljndawson: @lizcastro I really feel like we've reached the point I had hoped we would. #bib12

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dear twitter - what are these numbers facing the audience @internetarchive? #bib12 : 314 159 265 161 803 398



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@lizcastro I really feel like we've reached the point I had hoped we would. #bib12




#BiB12 @Anna_cn A second level of integration allows a book to be embedded on a webpage, projecting its metadata in anin-line display.

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RT @lizcastro: Valobox also lets you embed individual pages on a website à la YouTube (and gives 25% cut to embedder).@anna_cn #bib12

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content "REMIX" possibilities with @valobox API s available #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: Every page on Velobooks has a unique URL. #bib12

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@lizcastro 0.0 Metadata API!!!!!! #valobox #bib12




RT @lizcastro: Valobox makes books available on web, and enables pay-as-you-go reading and per-page purchases. @anna_cnInteresting. #bib12

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@ajaxlogos at #bib12 where @anna_cn is talking about Valobox - you doing any fiction experiments with this? Wld love to tryit.

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Valobox also lets you embed individual pages on a website à la YouTube (and gives 25% cut to embedder). @anna_cn #bib12

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@lizcastro Yeah, I'm intrigued. And embedding! #bib12 @anna_cn




Valobox makes books available on web, and enables pay-as-you-go reading and per-page purchases. @anna_cn Interesting.#bib12

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#BiB12 @Anna_cn tells us that on @Valobox every page has a URL. On social, you can share everything, down to a page(which can be sold).

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This is very very cool. #bib12

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Every page on Velobooks has a unique URL. #bib12

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Valobox, una tecnología que permite a los lectores pagar sólo por lo que lee http://bit.ly/MigbP5 #BiB12

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As of today, @valobox now live to all http://img.ly/oV16 #bib12

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25 Oct Henrik Berggren @henrikberggren

Soon on stage at #bib12 talking about reading. #excited




Анна Льюис из http://valobox.com об облачном сервисе покусочного чтения и продажи книжек #BiB12

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#BiB12 @Anna_cn of @Valobox tells us that the program parses a book so that it's chaptered for pay-by-section access andindexed.

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25 Oct e. smith sleigh @AuthorandPoet

SKY55 #written & #produced by e.smith sleigh> http://yt.cl.nr/qwKAjplBUdQ MUSINGS FROM THE FAULTLINE>http://youtu.be/Al6T5ZAStXU #BiB12 #booktrailers




.@anna_cn talking up SEOishness of web hosted book content #bib12

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THESE THINGS, MUSINGS AFTER DARK, NATURE http://bit.ly/kEdBcp #poetry #books #Poet #poetrynprose #titletalk#arts #Freeverse #reader #BiB12

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#BiB12 is back now, with @Anna_cn of @Valobox doing the first part of this hour.

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I believe #writers...are at heart people who live by night,a little bit outside society,between delinquency & conformity--G.C.Infante #BiB12

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@agwieckowski Because it's f*ing cold in Canada already. #bib12




A typical break with live music #BiB12 pic.twitter.com/groKEhCu




The little people are watching. #bib12

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25 Oct Mark Boas @maboa



It's all coming together. RT @lizcastro: "authors can use github to build a community around a book" @AdamWitwer #bib12

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Philosophical question: why are there so many Canadians at #bib12?

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Some of the wee people in the Archive pews have cookies. #kindastale But downstairs there are éclairs! #omnom #bib12http://twitpic.com/b7cx6m



25 Oct Ashleigh Gardner @AshleighGardner

RT @kirkbiglione: Michael Tamblyn is the Billy Beane of books. #moneybook #bib12

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25 Oct Colleen Lindsay @ColleenLindsay

If you're at the #BIB12 conference, please seek out my colleague John Morgan (our Director of Digital Publishing) and introduceyourself!

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25 Oct Doc Searls @dsearls

Appreciate @brianoleary citing The Intention Economy http://amzn.to/UHO8BS at #bib12 His text: http://bit.ly/RL6rl5 HT to@tac-niso #vrm




What a world. Working a job that was only just invented, at a conference talking about things TO invent, F-booking Scamp &Diva. #bib12

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concerning "reading privacy issues, e.g. behavioral analysis": I *want* such analysis, for my own purposes, so don't overprotect#bib12

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MobNotate: ebook Cross Promotion Network getting lots of love at Books in Browsers #bib12. Demo on site http://ow.ly/eM0kP

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RT @miralsattar: My #BIB12 talk on beyond authoring platforms is up! http://slidesha.re/UITc94






My #BIB12 talk on beyond authoring platforms is up! http://slidesha.re/UITc94




toc: Afternoon sessions at #BiB12 have resumed. Tune in here to see the always enjoyable Michael Tamblyn of @Kobo ht...http://ow.ly/2sRWSz

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Do we have anything like this in the UK? @manconley http://demandyourdotrights.com/ #BiB12

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#BiB12 @manconley of @ACLU finishes his presentation now on http://demandyourdotrights.com ↬ @cwhoa - we're goinginto a 15-minute break.

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The ACLU's @manconley talking about online rights, good website! http://demandyourdotrights.com/ #BiB12

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#BiB12 @manconley this is the focus of his @ACLU work and the key program for online privacy protection efforts for theorganization.

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Solo el 39% de las biografías son leídas hasta el final, mientras que las novelas románticas son devoradas por el 50% de loslectores #BIB12

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"Demand your DotRights" @manconley #bib12

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#BiB12 @manconley says that the digital dynamic shouldn't change your privacy protections. They've created "Demand YourdotRights.":

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RT @kinwong: Tired of watching political debates? Checkout what they actually said in thr books :-) http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html #bib12

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#BiB12 @manconley goes over instances of apparent censorship @PayPal case, etc., and on to SOPA. "Our goal is to protect theConstitution."

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RT @Porter_Anderson: Californias Reader Privacy Act of 2011 limits access to reader info. Beyond CA, how is reader privacyaddressed? #bib12

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i'm not sure how I feel about being labeled as an "intermediary". I guess it's better than "vendor". #bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "Digital Due Process" is an ACLU effort w/ the participation of sponsors including @microsoft. It'shere:...

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25 Oct Lindsay Eyink @leyink

Sitting in a church, π as scripture numbers, servers humming in the background, listening to people talk about the future of books.#bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn California's Reader Privacy Act of 2011 limits access to reader info. Beyond CA, how is reader privacy tobe addressed?

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CA is the only U.S. state with a specific reader privacy act, applied regardless of where books are obtained. —@manconley#BiB12

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MT @ftoolan: Aclu lawyer raising privacy issues in ebook reading. Is showdown coming with retailers who track details aboutreading? #bib12

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Privacy issues re: our reading experiences, especially when intermediaries become involved such as behavioural analysts -ChrisConley #bib12

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E.Comms Privacy Act dates from before the WWW. #bib12

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That is maybe the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me! RT @kirkbiglione Michael Tamblyn is the Billy Beane of books.#moneybook #bib12

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Aclu lawyer raising privacy issues in ebook reading. are we heading for a showdown with retailers who track details aboutreading? #bib12

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#BiB12 @manconley goes over the Electronic Communications Privacy act. The law is "famous for its lack of clarity." And it'sfrom 1986.

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So glad reader privacy is topic now - other conferences don't give this enough airtime #bib12

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You can have ebook privacy OR you can have DRM. Choose one. #BiB12

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Chris's comments remind me: Information is knowledge and it wants to be free. Knowledge is power. So power wants to be free.#bib12

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RT @Bowker: Romance #books highest of mainstream book categories that get finished at just over 50% according to@mtamblyn #bib12

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Chris Connolly talking about the legal ramifications of reading. #bib12

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25 Oct Bowker @Bowker

People still read, they read extensively -Chris Conley #BiB12

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@booksquare Same way we do web pages, I figure. There needs to be a protocol. #bib12




#BiB12 @manconley of the @ACLU to talk about the intersection of digital books and "dotRights."

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@booksquare huh, guess you and I have been going to very different sessions all these years #bib12




Exemptions to Prohibition Against Circumvention of Technological Measures Protecting Copyrighted Works http://copyright.gov/1201/ @naypinya #bib12

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Ahem, were-dolphin erotica! RT @booksquare: First time i’ve ever heard were-dolphins mentioned at a publishing conference.#bib12

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Very important!! >> RT @ljndawson: @naypinya announces the DMCA exemption rulings #bib12

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This is *the* question! “@agwieckowski: How do we click from one ebook to another? - @kinwong #bib12”

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn is finishing his presentation now, and we're setting up for @manconley of the @ACLU.

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Solo el 45.5% de las novelas compradas son leídas hasta el final, los libros de historía no superan el 27.7% de lectura via@mtamblyn #bib12

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@naypinya announces the DMCA exemption rulings #bib12

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Что это за жанр эролит-ры - Human-Were-Dolphin? Но эти книги дочитывают до конца ВСЕ! #bib12

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Why did the were-dolphin finish the ebook? On porpoise! @mtamblyn #BiB12

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People have a public [reading] life and a private life. What’s shared not necessarily proportional to what gets finished.—@MTamblyn #BiB12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "Finishing is generally more powerful than sharing, in terms of recommendation" of a book.

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wonder what the completion ratio of "A Brief History of Time" is. And wonder what the comprehension ratio is. #bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn takes some brief Q&A now. Any impact between social and completion? MT: Liked books are shared, notnecessarily finished.

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@booksquare These are the publishing conferences we love most. #bib12




Is there really only 104 other people watching the #bib12 livestream broadcast. Have seen the number go up to 115. Really oddit's that low.

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@mtamblyn's talk hilarious and insightful as always. Plus he will answer all of your questions about were-dolphin romance titles.#bib12

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Flaw of #book sales data tells you if people bought it, not if they liked the book or finished it @mtamblyn @kobo #bib12

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Certain genres of erotica have “bizarrely high completion rates” b/c readers skip to end so it doesn't show on home screen.@MTamblyn #BiB12

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interesting to think about a user driven "cloaking" option for ebooks, e.g. erotica or else #bib12

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Fun fact. Human-Were-Dolphin erotica genre had a bizarre 100% completion rates on Kobo, which tracks finish rates—@mtamblyn #bib12

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First time i’ve ever heard were-dolphins mentioned at a publishing conference. #bib12

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RT @indiamos: Fiction books on average get finished 45.5% of the time; romance novels: 50.7%. —@mtamblyn #BiB12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn What's the best way to share this kind of data for publishers? For self-publishers? -- they're working on it.

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25 Oct Toni Keen @tekay333

Oh, what a marketer/wanna-be-writer could learn at #bib12! Maybe next time around!

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn There are behavioural factors. Some erotica shows bizarrely high completion rates. "Human-were, human-were-dolphin." :)

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Romance #books highest of mainstream book categories that get finished at just over 50% according to @mtamblyn #BiB12@kobo

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25 Oct Roxane Lecomte @LaDameAuChapal

RT @lizcastro: It's hard to know when a book is done (end notes, more books by this author, etc.) @mtamblyn #bib12

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C'Mon: Only 104 viewers of #bib12. Check out the livestream: http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct …

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Romance books have the highest rates of being finished! #bib12

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It's hard to know when a book is done (end notes, more books by this author, etc.) @mtamblyn #bib12

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.@mtamblyn questioning what it means to "finish" a book. #bib12

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Чаще всего дочитывают любовные романы - 50,7% -Tamblyn #BiB12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn Romance has highest finish rate, at 50.7%. Narrative non-fic, poetry, reference, STM, academic, the metricsdon't work.

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Figures on book completion from Kobo are worse than I would have guessed - no more than 50% #bib12

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Fiction books on average get finished 45.5% of the time; romance novels: 50.7%. —@MTamblyn #BiB12

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.@mtamblyn Is there a correlation between a book getting finished and sales of future titles by that author #bib12

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Book data and quants? There are already a powerful tools to eval and recommend books. Friends, librarians and booksellers!@mtamblyn #BiB12

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Sunny lunch break at the Internet Archive #bib12 http://flic.kr/p/dnNZdA




#BiB12 @MTamblyn says they're starting to look at this kind of data. Fiction gets finished 45.5% of the time. Juvenile 38% ofthe time.

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn What if you could tell which authors' books "were compulsively read?"

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Кобо продает 100 самопубликующихся авторов, чьи книги дочитывают до конца чаще, чем Джеймса Паттерсона. Ггг#BiB12

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@jaumebalmes @lizcastro @kobo fwiw, I like it. anyone know which software it is? #bib12




#BiB12 @MTamblyn wanted new criteria, such as "did they like it enough to finish it?" Could they tell which books were alwaysfinished?

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New ways to value a book, so many other dimensions relevant to price optimization - not just unit sales, did they finish it, like it.#bib12

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Michael Tamblyn is the Billy Beane of books. #moneybook #bib12

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25 Oct dc denison @dcdenison



Watching livestream of Books in Browsers http://oreil.ly/VJOERg . Schedule: http://bit.ly/Rj4Uot #BIB12

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"Did reader like the book enough to finish it?" @mtamblyn #BiB12

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"Did they like it enough to finish it?" @kobo #bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "Unit sales is a lot about how we do our marketing and how we brand an #author." Creates handicaps fordebut authors, etc.

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Look > Buy > Finish - looking at lifecycle of book purchase @mtamblyn #BiB12

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25 Oct David Dalka @dalka

@agwieckowski @mtamblyn What is #bib12? I missed the memo... :(




"Statistics about finishing books get us closer to info about what readers like." @kobo #bib12

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Sales data usually only tell what user bought, not what they read or liked. > Interesting to look at the full live cycle. #bib12@mtamblyn

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+1 RT @lizcastro: The data is interesting, but I confess it's making me dizzy to watch so much zooming and panning. @kobo#bib12

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If you could look at conversion rates, you could start to optimize your metadata. - @mtamblyn #bib12

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Is Kobo the last thing standing between authors/pubs and oblivion? #deathbykindle #BiB12

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Эл.кнги добавляют новые метрики: конверсия, дочитанность до конца - Tamblyn #BiB12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "We know people don't always read what they buy." They wanted to study conversion as "look vs. buy."

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The data is interesting, but I confess it's making me dizzy to watch so much zooming and panning. @kobo #bib12

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Fundamental flaw of sales data: it only tells you if people bought it, not if they liked it, or finished it. @kobo #bib12



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Authors & publishers are like submarines; unit sales are like sonar. —@MTamblyn #BiB12

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Publishers are like submarines and unit sales are like sonar. But how can we tell what ppl actually read, liked? - @mtamblyn#bib12

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Very interesting data on self publishing at #bib12 right now, #writers, stream it @kobo

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Авторы и издали как подводные лодки, ориентируются только по показателям продаж - Tamblyn #BiB12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "Authors and publishers are like submarines. Unit sales are like sonar, only way you can tell where youare."

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@hughmcguire Would love to talk to you about pressbooks here at #bib12.

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn Self-pub aggregators price at a lower range than Kobo for books managed directly through the platform.

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RT @ljndawson: RT @lizcastro: "Mainstream ebook pricing is national. Self-publishing pricing is trans-national." @kobo#bib12

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German selfpublished content selling at average price 3,47$, publishers content selling at an average of 9,81$ #bib12@mtamblyn

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"Mainstream ebook pricing is national. Self-publishing pricing is trans-national." @kobo #bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "Pricing from traditional publishers was higher (closer to print) than self-pub prices, lower and leaner.

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RT @lizcastro: When Kobo made self-publishing tools available in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, resulted in hugegrowth #bib12

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German content selling to a lot of countries, massive sales growth of selfpublished titles. #bib12 @mtamblyn

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RT @susanmpls: @mtamblyn says the US has become *the* country for low-cost production of stories (i.e. self-publishing).#bib12

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Michael Tamblyn speaking so fast that feed becoming choppy and breaking up :) #BiB12

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25 Oct If It's A Choice... @IfItsAChoice

Been watching #BiB12 sessions. Fascinating! Publishing is changing so fully/rapidly! #books #ebook #digital

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25 Oct bowerbird @bbirdiman

@ljndawson @hughmcguire #bib12 -- i'm fine with that. and hugh is speaking at this major conference, so i am clearly "theoutsider opinion."




When Kobo made self-publishing tools available in German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, it resulted in huge growth#bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn ... submissions, for example, in German, which are seen in many other countries. 259% sales growth. Samein French. 275%.

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Ha! "Everyone has 5.7 novels in them" #bib12 @mtamblyn

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn says they're starting to see other languages' #authors show up...Kobo is seeing submissions in morelanguages...

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@naypinya #bib12 -- i guess it's a matter of priorities. still, i woulda thought they would've sent a token representative, forappearances.




I never thought I'd say this - and it probably means my life sucks - but I wish I had a lanyard. #bib12



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.@mtamblyn says the US has become *the* country for low-cost production of stories (i.e. self-publishing). #bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn The #self-#pub revolution started in the States, but "the degree to which those books have sold" in 144countries is huge.

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Everyone has 5.7 novels in them! @amtamblyn #BiB12

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25 Oct Katie Dunneback @younglibrarian

@ljndawson i've started saying that everyone can write a first draft. what they do beyond that makes them an author or not.#bib12






Contrary to the popular line about everyone having a novel in him or her, “Everyone [in the U.S.] has 5.7 novels in them.”—@MTamblyn #BiB12

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Kobo: 11 млн юзеров, больше 3 млн книг. И революция ПИССов в США #BiB12

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25 Oct thomas dunlap @spladow

If we look at the data, everyone in America has 5.7 novels in them. #bib12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn "The self-publishing world is a very-English-language thing right now. Everyone in the US has 5.7 novelsin them." :)

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Everyone in the US has 5.7 novels in them. #bib12 @mtamblyn

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Lunchtime at the Internet Archive, met @footage - Rick Prelinger - film archive so important to my students and me. #bib12

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@ljndawson @hughmcguire #bib12 -- my interactions indicate he doesn't. and i am unimpressed by the book, neither futuristicnor a manifesto.




@ejacqui I expect Apple earning data will pop up in #bib12 afternoon sessions at some point. #ibooks3 #mini




#bib12 I think, @mtamblyn is the ONLY person in the whole world, that is able to actually manage Prezi.

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn of @Kobo ...runs over the reach and engagement of Kobo with #authors (the #Writing Life platform).

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RT @porter_anderson: RT @emckean: The @internetarchive turns ten petabytes old tonight! #BIB12

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Kobo now claims 11 million users #BiB12

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@kobo has 3 million titles @mtamblyn #bib12

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Майкл Тамблин из Kobo открыл для себя Prezi. Про все на свете #BiB12

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn of @Kobo "When in doubt, ask @Twitter" what to say in his presentation today to us. Answer:#self-#publishing globally...

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Such true words! "When in doubt ask Twitter" @amtamblyn #BiB12

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Heh. @mtamblyn calls #bib12 a #roomfullofbeautifulnerds

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @MTamblyn of @Kobo calls his title, "data lessons," a defensive move because "you want thenew hot thing."

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn of @Kobo calls his title, "data lessons," a defensive move because "you want the new hot thing."

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Now @mtamblyn, with this fantastic font(s) in his presentation. #bib12

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Afternoon sessions at #BiB12 have resumed. Tune in here to see the always enjoyable Michael Tamblyn of @Kobo http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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Afternoon sessions at #BiB12 have resumed. Tune in here to see the always enjoyable Michael Tamblyn of @Kobo http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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#BiB12 @MTamblyn of @Kobo starts us off now, talking /data lessons/

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apparently we are sexy, too. #gatheringofbeautifulnerds #bib12

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@naypinya #bib12 -- please, peter. like the back-scratch circle means much to the real players. of course they're "busy" andstaying "away".




We are a room of doers. @mtamblyn #bib12

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2,000 sites now use Twitter cards - book discovery site http://www.jellybooks.com is one of them #bib12 http://blog.twitter.com/2012/10/more-interactive-tweets-in-more-than.html … via @twitter

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@mtamblyn up now! #bib12

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#BiB12 Hi from the @InternetArchive, where we're getting back into place for another hourlong session post-lunch.

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#bib12 RT @sposth: @Porter_Anderson This is sooo cool! This definitely sets the standard for all future publishingconferences!

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MT @harkaway: The pigeons called; they say they smell cat and feel uncomfortable: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/random-house-and-penguin-merger-talks.html … #publishing #BiB12 @TheBookseller

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RT @emckean: The @InternetArchive turns ten petabytes old tonight! #BIB12

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@bbirdiman Well, I've had extended talks with @hughmcguire, is how I know he knows. #bib12 Also, Book: A Futurist'sManifesto.






Сегодняшний спич О'Лири на #BiB12 : The library within us http://zite.to/PtU40j via @zite #fb

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@ljndawson @hughmcguire #bib12 -- if hugh doesn't even mention the issues, how do we know he's aware of them, oraddressing them adequately?




Nice music again at #bib12 http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct …

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@bbirdiman I know what goes on underneath - it's a lot of work but it's getting done. @hughmcguire #bib12






The Internet Archive turns ten petabytes old tonight! #BIB12

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Much more than that, there are 32M ISBNs RT @arhomberg: Today there are over 32 million books in print -knowledgeexplosion #BiB12

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@ljndawson @hughmcguire #bib12 -- things hugh says don't bend my mind. they sound half-baked, like he is neglecting theissues _underneath._




Our #BiB12 host, @Naypinya, is featured in #Writing on the #Ether for two strong @PWxyz posts today. Direct link:http://ow.ly/eM0x4

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Brewster Kahle gives us a tour of the Internet Archive scanning center. Fascinating! #bib12 http://twitpic.com/b7cfan





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@brendanl79 -- i would _love_ some #eprdctn people to summarize the #bib12 sessions, since i have no time to plow throughall of that noise.



25 Oct Editia @editia

why books will live natively on the web “@hughmcguire: My slides of "Opening the Book" http://www.slideshare.net/mackinaw/opening-the-book … #bib12”




Someone from @book_fair attending #bib12?

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25 Oct Magíster Edición UDP @MagisterEdicion

PressBooks, una plataforma de creación y publicación online, libera su código para facilitar la edición digitalhttp://www.comunicacion-cultural.com/2011/11/08/pressbooks-plataforma-de-edicion-online/ … #Bib12

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@golubitsky http://pressbooks.com - тоже интересный тренд #BiB12






Kudos to the #bib12 team and organizers for streaming the sessions for all virtual BIB-ers that couldn't make it!

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25 Oct Tuomo Suominen @insanescientist

Interesting - Github for Content Mgmt: O’Reilly Atlas uses git for managing book content. #bib12 http://bit.ly/TIljQa (via@maxfenton) #yam

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More tools to do books than books : PressBooks/Vook/Atavist/Booktype/iBooksAuthor/KDP/Byliner... (& so more) #bib12

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hi @blaine , u at Sanfran? I couldn't make it this time so enjoy it 2x for me ;) #BiB12






@mobnotate a pivoté. Est passé de la lecture sociale http://bit.ly/UIsXQ5 à la comparaison algorithmique : http://bit.ly/UIt8Ln #bib12

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#Writing on the #Ether today features "the end of truth" around that #Kindle-wiping story, news about #BiB12 and more.http://ow.ly/eLVOA

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The "Extra Ether" @HughMcGuire talked about in his #BiB12 presentation (driving traffic from @JaneFriedman) is here:http://ow.ly/eLVWO

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@Jellybooks ooh. I'm jealous. #bib12



25 Oct Søren Peter Sørensen @sorenpsorensen

MT “@brianoleary: The library within us, a talk ... #bib12 http://bit.ly/RiUJ3f ” ‘we need to … apply the networked models toour business’



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#bib12 hashtag triggering a paid ad from SAP on BI (every time). Social media monetization fail.

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25 Oct Jellybooks Ltd. @Jellybooks

Lunch break T #BiB12 cue for quaffing a whiskey here in London

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25 Oct Lisa Spagnolo @lspags

RT @doctorlaura: Oh look, you can play with the mobnotate #bib12 demo even if you're not at #bib12:http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html#shelf //very cool!

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25 Oct Bev @EditMob

RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @HughMcguire "Why the Book & the Internet Will Merge" links out 2 @damiengwalter(who wrote @Guardian article)

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VitalSource to participate in several upcoming events for #BIB12 #LECOM #PLSsummit #AAMC12 #EDU12 #paeaforum#imsglobal | See you there!

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25 Oct Bev @EditorEtc


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RT @doctorlaura: Oh look, you can play with the mobnotate #bib12 demo even if you're not at #bib12:http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html#shelf #ePrdctn

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#bib12 Oh no, Livestream is currently offline! http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct … The music was so nice. Please turn the stream on again ...

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I love watching streaming conferences on my IPad, it's easily the thing I most use it for. #bib12, enjoy lunch!pic.twitter.com/L6uYOiU1





25 Oct Adam Gardefjord @gardefjord

The new bible. #bib12 pic.twitter.com/GZ7mq7dh




RT @screenkapture: RT @hughmcguire: My slides of "Opening the Book" http://www.slideshare.net/mackinaw/opening-the-book … #bib12



25 Oct doctorlaura @doctorlaura

Oh look, you can play with the mobnotate #bib12 demo even if you're not at #bib12: http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html#shelf

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I am looking for commercial-grade browser-based reader for my company's ebook retail. Find me today: green shirt under browncoat. #bib12

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@NickRuffilo He's got a huge long line of ppl - I'll reach out to him later. #bib12




#BiB12 is now on lunch break. We start back at 1:30pPT / 4:30pET with a session including @MTamblyn of @Kobo.

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25 Oct Joshua Tallent @jtallent

I just saw @penguinpowered on the live feed at #bib12. Very excited that we were able to send him this year!

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#BiB12 @kinwong is finishing his presentation, drawing a lot of interest in Mobnotate, interesting demo.

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It'd be fun to run @mobnotate-type demo on, say, all the Project Gutenberg books, where the books are open access #BiB12

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“@hughmcguire: My slides of "Opening the Book" http://www.slideshare.net/mackinaw/opening-the-book … #bib12” маст си




Ooh @kinwong's @mobnotate is also at work in Spanish! #BiB12 Que padre!

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Meaningful linking ...is a new profit center. #bib12

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Linking is integral with digital media and ebooks #bib12 @kinwong

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25 Oct Toke Riis Ebbesen @tokeriis

I love that #bib12 is filling my twitterstream totally atm, although Im not following the tag :-)

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RT @thatjeffgomez: "Linking is a new profit center." @kinwong at #BiB12

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#BiB12 @kinwong (previously with @Google), says all the linking is algorithmic, finding "not too relevant" links for range.

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Ebook link technology worth checking out RT @indiamos: Sample of @kinwongs Mobnotate: http://is.gd/brGYHz #bib12

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.@kinwong's topic links are cool, but I've recently come to realize how much I actually value linearity and completeness of abook. #bib12

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...and @kinwong's demo: http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html #bib12

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25 Oct Jeff Gomez @thatjeffgomez

"Linking is a new profit center." @kinwong at #BiB12

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Most adorable speaker award at #BiB12 so far: @kinwong.

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My slides of "Opening the Book" http://www.slideshare.net/mackinaw/opening-the-book … #bib12




I am crushing hard on @mobnotate right now. Just warning you. #bib12

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.@kinwong's demo is certainly cool: http://www.mobnotate.com/bib.html #BiB12

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infectious innovation from adjacent expertise: former Google ads engineer @kinwong rethinking ebook linking at @mobnotate#bib12

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.@kinwong's @mobnotate is awesome. #bib12

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#BiB12 @kinwong His linkage can create bridges between books' content -- he's running an example now for us.

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@naypinya Hand in hand, the ontologies and concept maps WOULD BE AMAZING. #bib12 @jmaxsfu #bothand#noteitheror






@kinwong из http://mobnotate.com/bib.htm говорит прав.вещи про линкинг эл.книг. Проблема для закрытых систем.Которые пока доминируют #BiB12

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RT @indiamos: Sample of @kinwong's Mobnotate: http://is.gd/brGYHz #BiB12

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RT @DonLinn: RT @indiamos: Sample of @kinwong's Mobnotate: http://is.gd/brGYHz #BiB12 #TOCcon

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@jmaxsfu I wanna get @mobnotate & @smalldemons & Schema in a room 2gether. Lock 'em up & don't let'em out for 2months. World change. #bib12



25 Oct Laurel Ruma @laurelatoreilly



RT @oreillymedia Can't make it in person? Watch the Books in Browsers Conference livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon #BiB12

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How does @kinwong get access to underlying source of books for his demo? #BiB12

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"It is the nature of digital media to link." says @kinwong. #bib12

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and it was excellent! “@brianoleary: "The library within us", a talk I gave earlier today at #bib12 http://bit.ly/RiUJ3f ”

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RT @indiamos: While @kinwong reads the Steve Jobs bio, his Mobnotate links to related content in Woz’s book. Within iBooks.#BiB12

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#BiB12 @kinwong "It's the nature of digital media to link. eBooks have special characteristics. Linking is a new profit center."

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Sample of @kinwong's Mobnotate: http://is.gd/brGYHz #BiB12

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Mobnotate is a little bit like Small Demons but different? Can anyone shed more light on that? #bib12

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@jwikert I want. I SO WANT. #bib12 @kinwong #thishastobeathing



25 Oct Daniel Benchimol @DanielBenchi

Mobnotate, una tecnología q permite descubrir otras lecturas dentro del libro que has comprado http://bit.ly/PKFewK #BiB12 via@javiercelaya

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#BiB12 @kinwong ...and Mobnotate links content within a publisher's cagalog. EPUB, works cross-platform. Incls. link-trackingdata.

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Engaging beta readers and integrating community and social elements can help writers be more successful @bibliocrunch #bib12

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@kinwong wow linked epubs! #bib12

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@jwikert Or amplifying the reading experience with OTHER BOOKS! @kinwong #bib12




Hello Ricky Wong. This is awesome. #bib12



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@mobnotate @kinwong: we must talk. I think Schema has a place in what you're doing as well. #bib12

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While @kinwong reads the Steve Jobs bio, his Mobnotate links to related content in Woz’s book. Within iBooks. #BiB12

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Really love the vision @kinwong is describing on connecting ebooks and saving time for readers. #BiB12 #TOCcon

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#BiB12 @kinwong He created a topical index to the Jobs book for his own use. Wanted to link to Woz's book...

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@kinwong is blowing my mind because all the stuff I want to do is REAL. #bib12

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of conferences attended this year, #bib12's attendees are whom I'd choose to be stranded with on desert island or in giant elevator.

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Drink RT @miralsattar: Ha! Only at #bib12 would there be a correlation between #gangnamstyle and eBook linking @kinwong

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25 Oct Rebecca Springer @libraryhead

so, um @kinwong invented the back-of-book index? #bib12

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@jmaxsfu New ways of speed-reading. #bib12






@mobnotate created a script that parsed out the pieces of Steve Jobs bio that he was most likely to read. #bib12

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@maxfenton I helped make another — http://movetocambodia.com . (Sold as ebpub, PDF, too.) #bib12




How to process books you haven't read. :-) #bib12

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Ha! Only at #bib12 would there be a correlation between #gangnamstyle and eBook linking @kinwong

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What books have been missing - clustering algorithms! #bib12

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#BiB12 @kinwong was daunted by the length of Isaacson's Steve Jobs book. Felt he shouldn't have to read from cover to cover.

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Mobnotate, una tecnología que permite a los lectores descubrir otras lecturas dentro del libro que han comprado http://bit.ly/PKFewK #BiB12

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How do we click from one ebook to another? - @kinwong #bib12

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"How do we click from one ebook to another?" #bib12 @mobnotate

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#BiB12 @kinwong ofhttp://www.mobnotate.com/ is quickly demo-ing the way digital depends on links (video, music) -- but howabout #ebooks?



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@mobnotate demonstrating different sorts of musical linking, video linking. #bib12

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Cool...@kinwong is on the stage. #bib12

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Links are critically important to ebooks. - @kinwong #bib12

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 And our next speaker is @kinwong on "Enabling Discovery through linking" ... getting set upnow ...

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Yeah! Ricky Wong saying his goal is to show us that links for ebooks are important! YES YES YES. #bib12

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RT @oreillymedia: Can't make it in person. Watch the Books in Browsers Conference livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #BiB12

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#BiB12 And our next speaker is @kinwong on "Enabling Discovery through linking" ... getting set up now ...

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @miralsattar @Facebook storytelling is another instance of community leveraged selectivelyby #authors. #bib12

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 @miralsattar -- @BiblioCrunch helps #authors structure and execute their communityleveraging efforts for books.

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#tweetsmart was also written on @pressbooks! #bib12 #PubWest #toccon cc: @hughmcguire @agwieckowski




#BiB12 @miralsattar -- @BiblioCrunch helps #authors structure and execute their community leveraging efforts for books.

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We're giving anyone at #bib12 a 50% discount code for premium services http://bit.ly/Q2p3M2 Code: Bib12

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@miralsattar reporting from self-pub frontlines - fascinating ventures in storytelling & online marketing #bib12

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“The distinction between ‘the internet’ & 'book' is totally arbitrary, & will disappear in 5 years” -- @hughmcguire #bib12



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#BiB12 @miralsattar @Facebook storytelling is another instance of community leveraged selectively by #authors.

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25 Oct Sara Peyton @SaraPeyton

RT @oreillymedia Can't make it in person. Watch the Books in Browsers Conference livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon #BiB12

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RT @jwikert: Direct channels and new tools bring freedom and flexibility http://jmcd.me/UIkLiW #TOCcon #pubwest2012#PubWest #bib12

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;-) RT @agwieckowski: Incidentally, that ebook abt information sharing that @hughmcguire referenced was actually built onPressBooks. #bib12

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#BiB12 @miralsattar Another case she mentions is integration of community and social elements (Dessertguide w/@Foursquare).

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Мирал Саттар из BiblioCrunch рассказывает о своей нише. Ничем не отличается от традиционного издателя. Только в видеоткрытой сети #BiB12

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@jsmcdougall He got big applause for that! #bib12




PressBooks, una plataforma de creación y publicación online, libera su código para facilitar la edición digitalhttp://www.comunicacion-cultural.com/2011/11/08/pressbooks-plataforma-de-edicion-online/ … #Bib12

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“Blog tours are taking the place of author tours.” —@miralsattar #bib12

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#BiB12 @miralsattar also mentions crowdsourcing cover design and engagement of beta readers, as well as blog tours for#authors' launches.

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RT @ljndawson: @hughmcguire is open sourcing @pressbooks! #bib12 #PubWest // Go Hugh!

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.@hughmcguire at #BiB12 announces open sourcing of @PressBooks - seeking development partners to bring more bookpublishing to the Web

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25 Oct Huub van de Pol @huwie

RT @MatthewDiener: Book metadata tags from http://schema.org here: http://bit.ly/llGuiG @ljndawson #BiB12

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Great talk by @hughmcguire arguing for webbooks. Useful definitions of "book" and explorations of "web vs. book" and bookusability #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: @hughmcguire is open sourcing @pressbooks! #bib12

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Open source means other thing, If open: Universal, Public, etc... If you need to call for a patnership it's not opensource #BiB12

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News at #bib12! @pressbooks is open sourcing their book publishing platform build on WordPress. Super elegant.http://Pressbooks.com .

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News at #bib12! @pressbooks is open sourcing their book publishing platform build on WordPress. Sper elegant.http://Pressbooks.com .

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#BiB12 @miralsattar offers case studies of #authors working community. @TheCreativePenn (Joanna Penn), for example.

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I’m in a golden-lit temple with Ted Nelson, Clifford Lynch, @brewster_kahle. It’s digital publishing Parnassus #bib12pic.twitter.com/rdTCTgn0




Just thought I would say getting perfect livestream quality of #bib12 conference delivered to my armchair in the UK!

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#BiB12 @miralsattar No matter where an #author's approach falls on the spectrum, "additional work always needs to be doneon a book."

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“No matter what authoring platform you use, additional work always needs to be done.” —@miralsattar #BIB12 #eprdctn



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25 Oct Scott Leslie @sleslie

RT @jmaxsfu: PressBooks is to be open-source. Official announcement. - @hughmcguire #bib12

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#BiB12 @miralsattar launched @BiblioCrunch in recognition of "drastic" change in #publishing, from DIY #authors to tradpublishers.

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@hughmcguire opensources PressBooks: webbooks generate interest in ways an ebook can’t; we need open tools to succeed#opensource #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: @hughmcguire is open sourcing @pressbooks! #bib12

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25 Oct Jonathan Davis @canadiancat

Great announcement for @pressbooks at #BiB12. @hughmcguire and his team are going #opensource! #publishing #ebooks

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>>>PressBooks is to be open-source (selective partnership). - @hughmcguire #bib12

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25 Oct Jonathan Davis @canadiancat

#nowwatching Books in Browsers 2012 live stream: http://oreil.ly/R2J4lz Some really neat ideas coming out of the presentations#BiB12 #ebooks

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#BiB12 Now, @miralsattar of @BiblioCrunch was at @TIME during digital transitioning there. She felt "there's nothing tolaunch anymore."

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#bib12 @hughmcquire @pressbooks will be open-sourced, to select developers at first. Possibilities for embedding the #oerpubeditor?

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#BiB12 Now, @miralsattar of @BiblioCrunch speaks on "You've Picked an Author Platform. Now What?"

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25 Oct Sean Cranbury @seancranbury

The Library Within Us: another epic piece of writing by @brianoleary http://bit.ly/SzYwqX cc@HeidiKSchiller @tamahoc#bib12

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And @hughmcguire announces @PressBooks will be open sourced, with an initial rollout through select partners. #bib12

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Pressbooks переходит в open source. Ого. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @hughmcguire ...announces that @PressBooks will be open-sourced to encourage webbook development (acceptingpartners now).

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PressBooks is to be open-source. Official announcement. - @hughmcguire #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: @hughmcguire is open sourcing @pressbooks! #bib12 #TOCcon

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"We are going to open source PressBooks" @HughMcguire #bib12 #eprdctn

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Examples off the top of my head include Shape of Design, Art Space Tokyo, HTML5 For Web Designers. #bib12

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@hughmcguire is open sourcing @pressbooks! #bib12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "The problem of closed silos (@Amazon, @iBookstore, @Kobo, @Nook -- even now of@PressBooks) ...

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25 Oct Tim Au Yeung @dijutaltim

RT @TAC_NISO: Free is not the same as sharing.... One needn't require the other. #bib12

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@TAC_NISO A book can lead to another book, which you would have to pay for after a certain point. Yes. #bib12






As it gets easier, we will see more books, each having a harder time being discovered. - @hughmcguire echoing @ljndawson#bib12

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“Those who connect with readers better will win.” —@hughmcguire #BiB12

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Чем больше эл.книг, тем сложнее их айти, тем важнее webbooks - Магвайр #BiB12

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+1 "Those who connect with readers better will win." @hughmcguire #bib12

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Free is not the same as sharing.... One needn't require the other. #bib12

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Hugh McGuire advocating (and futurepredicting) web books, books that live on the open web. #bib12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire now sorts through the traffic, including my "Ether Extra" piece at @JaneFriedman, which is here:http://ow.ly/eLS9S

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Webbook! #bib12

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ANALYTICS. semantic markup and linking. #bib12

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@hughmcguire talking about all the delicious things that you can do with a webby book. #bib12

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Hugh was able to set up Google analytics for Book: A Futurist's Manifesto! Awesome. #bib12 (book link here: http://bit.ly/tpjHlE )

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Information hates to be anthropomorphized. #bib12

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@Porter_Anderson book plugger extraordinaire according to @hughmcguire :) #BiB12

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RT @brewster_kahle: "Information wants to be *used*" -- @hughmcguire #bib12

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Anyone else at #bib12 notice a network bandwidth drop?

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People generate & want to share information. Digital/web accelerates & multiplies sharing of info. #bib12

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25 Oct O'Reilly Media @OReillyMedia

Can't make it in person. Watch the Books in Browsers Conference livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon #BiB12

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25 Oct susana olivar @susanova

RT @javiercelaya: La información quiere ser liberada, compartida, utilizada,, reflexión de @hughmcguire en #BiB12 100% deacuerdo...

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "Why the Book and the Internet Will Merge" links out to @damiengwalter (who wrote the



@Guardian article) - referrals.

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La información quiere ser liberada, compartida, utilizada,, reflexión de @HughMcGuire en #BiB12 100% de acuerdo#culturacompartida

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Incidentally, that ebook about information sharing that @hughmcguire referenced was actually built on PressBooks. #bib12

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25 Oct Brewster Kahle @brewster_kahle

"Information wants to be *used*" -- @hughmcguire #bib12

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#bib12 @hughmcguire says "Many things that publishers, readers & services can do w/ an api with webbooks are just notpossible with ebooks"

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire And @Joshgans: "Information wants to be used." Turns to "Book: A Futurist's Manifesto." http://ow.ly/eLRFz @PressBooks



25 Oct Brian O'Leary @brianoleary

"The library within us", a talk I gave earlier today at #bib12 http://bit.ly/RiUJ3f

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Another @harvardbiz mention at #bib12, to @joshuagans's great short ebook "Info Wants to Be Shared" http://ow.ly/eLRuZ thanks @hughmcguire

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OH NO I FORGOT TO SAY HELLO TO THE LITTLE PEOPLE #bib12 #cursed

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25 Oct Virginie Clayssen @v_clayssen

what you can DO with a ebook vs a web book @hughmcguire #bib12

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“Information wants to be used.” @hughmcguire #bib12

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Information wants to be used (McGuire) #BiB12 #fb

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"how much more useful information can be if it's on the web than on paper" @hughmcguire #bib12

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Love that we're hearing the 'information wants to be free' idea at #BiB12. That is key to all our conversations here.

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"Information wants to be liberated" - @hughmcguire #vivalarevolution #bib12



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information wants to be used - @hughmcguire #bib12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "Information wants to be liberated, it wants to be spread." (Brand) Hear something interesting and itwants to get out.

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Information wants to be liberated - @hughmcguire #bib12

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information wants to be liberated, spread @hughmcguire #bib12

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RT @indiamos: “Has anyone yelled at their e-book reader in the past year?” —@hughmcguire #BIB12 =>screwed by multipleaccounts & DRM

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“Has anyone yelled at their e-book reader in the past year?” [Hands go up.] Explain why you did so. —@hughmcguire #BIB12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "So many useful things that a publisher, a reader, an API service could do with webbooks not doable w/ebooks."

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"The book is the best effort of the author to give you something complete" @hughmcguire at #BiB12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "The important thing about print vs. ebooks vs. web books "is no the guts of transmission technology."

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the completeness of a book...#bib12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "The book is the best effort of the #author to give you something complete," not at all a collection ofblog posts.

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Now speaking at #BIB12 @hughmcguire of http://pressbooks.com/ : "What is a book" live stream http://toc.oreilly.com/

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Unlike Wikipedia, a book is not endless, it is bounded, that is part of its beauty #BiB12

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Love @hughmcguire 's evolved? definition of book. #bib12

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. @hughmcguire Books are discrete items that are internally complete => Doesn't apply to every book I've read.... #bib12

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@hughmcguire knows what a book is because he and @brianoleary made one. #bib12

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The boundedness of a book is important. It's a *complete* argument for something. - @hughmcguire #bib12

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25 Oct Sean Cranbury @seancranbury

Hugh FUCKING McGuire! RT @jmaxsfu: Book defined as discrete and internally complete - @hughmcguire #bib12

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Book defined as discrete and internally complete - @hughmcguire #bib12

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And a book is sort of the "concept album" of the web. ;) #bib12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire defines a book as "a discrete collection of text designed by an #author...transmitted to readers invarious formats."

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anyone who things an ebook isn't a book we can dismiss as a crank @hughmcguire #bib12

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"discrete collection of text, internally complete representation of idea(s), transmitted in various formats." @hughmcguire #bib12

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Next speaker @hughmcguire on the stage about opening the book. #bib12

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#BiB12 @HughMcguire "What is a book?...If we're talking about content of books living on the web...a book is not a blog, an FBpage," etc.

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@hughmcguire level-setting us on what a book is. #bib12

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25 Oct Mike Simmons @simmons_m

@jmass - you might be interested in this stream based on the session u facilitated earlier this week - http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct … #bib12 #bib12

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Yay for @liza, head will now stop pounding. #BIB12

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I'm next :)RT @Porter_Anderson: #BiB12 Actually, @hughmcguire is up now, with "Opening the Book" (a different order ofspeaker in this hour)

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@hughmcguire is so low-key when he talks about these mind-bending things. #bib12

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RT @hughmcguire The distinction between "the internet" & "books" is totally arbitrary. #bib12

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WHAT HUGH IS SAYING RIGHT NOW! #bib12 @hughmcguire #epiphanies

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О, Хью Макгвайр из http://pressbooks.com . #BiB12

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#BiB12 Actually, @hughmcguire is up now, with "Opening the Book" (a different order of speaker in this hour)

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My preso was almost called "Opening the book" as well! @hughmcguire #bib12

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@libraryhead No, it's not trivial - it's where all the work is. #bib12




Does anyone have some pain reliever? #headache #BiB12

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RT @MatthewDiener Book metadata tags from http://schema.org here: http://bit.ly/llGuiG @ljndawson #BiB12 #eprdctn

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agreed-upon ontology no trivial matter! MT @v_clayssen #BiB12 @ljndawson If you're using agreed-upon ontology connex b/wbks become natural



25 Oct Edward Banatt @ArmaVirumque

The Packet Sniffers: an Octet? R @emckean: Bluegrass music at #BiB12 from The Packet Sniffers. Rumor is Knuth (!) will playthe organ later!

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#BiB12 #Authors: When we come back, @miralsattar of @BiblioCrunch speaks on "You've Picked an Author Platform. NowWhat?" 2:30pET/11:30aPT

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25 Oct ID Digital Pub @IDDigitalPub



RT @ePUBSecrets New post: iBooks 3.0 and iBooks Author 2.0: First Reactions http://bit.ly/RlKB8m #ePrdctn #toccon #dbw#BiB12

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from behind they are not at all creepy #bib12 http://flic.kr/p/dnM3VC




RT @maxfenton: “By shucking the container, books become APIs to other books.” —@ljndawson #bib12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson finishes her presentation and we have a break now in San Francisco, back at 1130aPT / 2:30pET. http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ




RT @Porter_Anderson #BiB12 @ljndawson If you're using an agreed-upon ontology connections between books becomesnatural http://Schema.org

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Sounding good! RT @Jellybooks: The "packet sniffers" are playing Buegrass Americana at #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson Container-less books then become APIs to other books, the barriers falling away for discoverability amongthe 32 million.

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Bluegrass music at #BiB12 from The Packet Sniffers. Rumor is Knuth (!) will play the organ later!

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "If you're using an agreed-upon ontology," connections between books becomes natural, ashttp://Schema.org shows.

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The "packet sniffers" are playing Buegrass Americana at #BiB12 - its break time so off to sniff something else



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In containerless, abundant, persistent content, any way to instill any order to this info overload is create links in it #bib12@ljndawson

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25 Oct Moriah Jovan @MoriahJovan

.@mikecane “@indiamos: HTML5 “is kind of a euphemism for JavaScript” —@jmaxsfu #BIB12”

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.@ljndawson describing how we can make a book rhizome within the web at #bib12 - great inspiration!

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I am loving #bib12 - sometimes talking to people in the pub industry you feel like you're a crazy person banging on about theweb. Not here.

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“@Bowker: http://Schema.org is currently working on representing books on the web, for discoverability @ljndawson #bib12”замена isbn?

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books API 's to other books #BiB12

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25 Oct Kathryn @concisekathryn

who's got thumbs and can crack open EPUBs? This girl #bib12

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“By shucking the container, books become APIs to other books.” —@ljndawson #bib12

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http://Schema.org is currently working on representing books on the web, for discoverability @ljndawson #bib12

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Wow RT @PeterTurner: @ljndawson 3000% increase in number of active books (print and digital) over the last 14 years.#bib12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson The @Schema.org syntax produces exponentially better results (metadata read and rendered).

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25 Oct Ranti Junus @ranti

"It's basically a bunch of book people talking with a bunch of search engine people." Metadata FTW. http://schema.org/Book #bib12

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RT @TAC_NISO @ljndawson is displaying the tag suite organized by @rjw on http://schema.org/Book pretty simpleONIX-like data #bib12

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25 Oct Tzviya Siegman @TzviyaSiegman



So cool! RT @MatthewDiener: Book metadata tags from http://schema.org here: http://bit.ly/llGuiG @ljndawson #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson This metadata is used in search and "rich snippets" are heavily dependent on this data as @Google reads it.

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. @ljndawson is displaying the tag suite organized by @rjw on http://Schema.org http://schema.org/Book pretty simpleONIX-like data #bib12

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Book metadata tags from http://schema.org here: http://bit.ly/llGuiG @ljndawson #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson shows us http://Schema.org 's site. On it, we see a collection of metadata tags for a book...@Google,@Yahoo involved.

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In the nineties publishers tried to figure out book displays and coop payments to mega chains, now they wrangle metadata andSEO #BiB12

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@Irizaurus Yes, but only half the people here have kids #BIB12



25 Oct karl dubost @karlpro

"32.8 million ISBNs, +36,000% in 14 years" by @ljdawson at #BIB12 | And some people still wonder why authors can't make aliving

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "With 32 million active ISBNs, 200 million active websites...this is what the industry is up against."

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@arhomberg As opposed to the wonderful weather in the Bay area today. Not missing anything in that regard #BiB12





25 Oct Irizaurus @Irizaurus

Name your next child Metadata. Just so that you remember what this is all about. #BIB12 (commenting from the other side of theMississippi).

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"If we want to make the search engine work for us we have to engage it," says @ljndawson. #bib12

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. @ljndawson Books are no more important to search engines than any other item #bib12

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@micycle but must say, my couch is really comfortable, but the weather in London is total fuck shit #BiB12






Books are no more important to a search engine than anything else -- it's all data. - @ljndawson #bib12

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Container-less content: how do we manage it, how do people find it, and how do we get paid for it? @ljndawson #BiB12

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#bib12 Interested in editing semantic HTML? Find me or Adam Hyde. http://oerpub.org tackling authoring on the web :http://www.slideshare.net/oerpub/share-everywhere-creating-content-with-legs-slideshare …




#BiB12 @ljndawson Container-less content: we impose a structure...why us? why the book industry? Search engines don't care.It's all data."

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I disagree with some of the #BIB12 comments. Containerlessness OK. *But* a story or any narrative structure is a container,structurally.

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@ljndawson share the vintage sneaker website where you can buy these! #BiB12 http://twitpic.com/b7brjr




#BiB12 @ljndawson "This is a different kind of survival than holding out during a downturn...this depends on" new strategies.

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Pubs need to get better at including metadata within the eBook itself. @ljndawson #BiB12 <=Exactly, and EPUB3 allows pub todo so.

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "#Publishers have to consider concepts they've never thought of, like the book as a webpage."

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+1 => RT @v_clayssen: search engine are only as good as information they have to work with @ljndawson #bib12 Improve yourmetadata, folks



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25 Oct Karyn Johnson @Karyn

Our publisher is speaker at Books in Browsers on Friday in SF. http://bit.ly/RYkbYV It's going on 2day 2. #BiB12

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search engine are only as good as information they have to work with @ljndawson #bib12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "At some point, a shipping container opens...search engines want more detailed metadata directly from thefiles."

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25 Oct Porter Anderson @ConfabWorld

#BiB12 @ljndawson "At some point, a shipping container opens...search engines want more detailed metadata directly from thefiles."

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I don't know of any container that has remained closed in the era of opposable thumbs. @ljndawson #bib12

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"Users want PDF”: scholarly pub long baffled by users’ huge pdf pref; meanwhile @mendeley_com entered there & disrupted.@AdamWitwer #bib12

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Book discoverability = "let's really figure out what Apple wants in a spreadsheet" or "avoid Amazon rejecting our ONIX files"#BiB12

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No container in the history of thumbs has remained unopened. - @ljndawson #bib12

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I'm watching @ljndawson present at #bib12 online http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct …

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Reading tweets from nervous Books in Browsers (#BIB12) presenters. Nervous because on the cutting edge?

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25 Oct Edward Nawotka @EdNawotka

32.8 million ISBNs in the Bowker database, a 36,000% increase in 14 years says, or 25k of paper for one copy of each.@ljdawson #BIB12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson Living on Staten Island, Laura sees shipping containers. "The book, the pages, are just an HTML file, awebpage."

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@ljndawson makes smart, visionary and endearing look easy #bib12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "Books are regarded as special objects...'book metadata' ...what does #Apple really want in a spreadsheet?"

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Even at publishing houses, books are seen as separate from all other publishing objects. - @ljndawson #bib12

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“We order books off the web. Increasingly, we order books that are the web, packed into books.” —@ljndawson #bib12

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Funny fact - no one is watching the speakers, why is this?- 90% looking down at their screen #bib12 pix can be provided.

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25 Oct Ivan Rachieli @iscarlets

Try talk about git with italian publishers RT @maxfenton O’Reilly Atlas uses git for managing book content. #bib12 http://bit.ly/TIljQa

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "I can order a replacement of a dollhouse" lost in a family move decades ago. "With the Web, nothing goesaway."

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Apparently, @ljndawson is needing to replace a lot of her childhood toys #bib12

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32.8 million ISBNs means ~25K tons of paper which is equivalent to 3000 African elephants if only 1 copy per ISBN printed#BiB12 @ljndawson

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25 Oct Marie Bilde @MarieBilde

when was the last time you ordered a book from a paper catalogue? Or anything else from a paper catalogue? @ljndawson at#bib12

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25 Oct TypeBot @typebot

Reminded of how Mark Pilgrim switched from writing in DocBook to HTML http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2009/10/docbook-pandoc-rants-and-some-decent-free-fonts/ … #BiB12 - @rdhyee



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“Increasingly, paper is being regarded as a temporary medium.” —@ljndawson #bib12 {Not trolling paper people!}

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#BiB12 @ljndawson Teachers, Laura says, are using electronic communication more because "paper cannot be depended on."

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Interesting, only about half of audience of #bib12 have kids

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“We’re not so slowly approaching a world of fundamentally containerless content.” —@ljndawson #BiB12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson "We're not so terribly slowly approaching a world of fundamentally container-less content...Lots ofessentially data."

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32.8M is the number of active ISBNs in Books in Print 3,646% increase of titles available over the last 14 years #BiB12@ljndawson

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25 Oct Peter Turner @Ampersand_Pubs

@ljndawson 3000% increase in number of active books (print and digital) over the last 14 years. #bib12

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@ljndawson 3000% increase in number of active books (print and digital) over the last 14 years. #bib12

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@dighum_berlin Did you see the tweets relating to #BIB12 event? They're using the letters X, M and L!

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@arhomberg Or just an explosion in ISBN assignment? #BiB12




32 821 914 ISBN Books in print in USA (including chapters) @ljndawson #bib12

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. @ljndawson 3,646 times increase in the number of ISBNs over the past 14 years. Yes abundance! #bib12

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Today there are over 32 million books in print -knowledge explosion #BiB12

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Лора Доусон из Bowker о книгах, которые уже не книги #BiB12

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a workflow with Dropbox is the dream #bib12

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#BiB12 @ljndawson In the last 14 years, there has been a 3,646-percent increase in titles available, @Bowker estimates.

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25 Oct Jon Ingold @joningold

This nice lady talking right now paid for my taxi once #bib12

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@jmaxsfu Thanks for you talk at #BiB12!

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25 Oct Mike Simmons @simmons_m

may have just seen @mbrokering walk past the video stream at #bib12. Hope you are enjoying the conference.

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU now finishes, and we're turning to @ljndawson, herself (the Madame Defarge of Metadata). "When a bookis not a book."

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Incidental. Effortless. Markup. Fluidity. Interoperable. "It's the web, Luke..." says @jmaxsfu @ #bib12

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.@jmaxsfu advocates for lightweight markup and simple platforms. Shoutout to markdown/dropbox as one example. #bib12

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@kefletcher I saw that you are attending #BiB12 -- hope to say hi






Another problem about "lightweight" markup is future proofing, preservation and accessibility #bib12 =>Just being oppositionalthis AM

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He's in perfect spot, at bulletin table at back RT @miralsattar: @Porter_Anderson are you watching the live stream? Or herelive? #bib12

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Publishing industry today “Integral tension because innovation and tradition” #BiB12

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Great stuff from@jmaxsfu at #BiB12

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"The integral tension between tradition and innovation" This one boggles me, as someone who has had the Internet my wholeadult life. #BiB12

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"Most of the world is moving one way with the web & the publishing industry is still mired in the desktop publishing way.”—@jmaxsfu #bib12

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#bib12 @jmaxsfu John Maxwell talk! XML's promise was vendor neutrality & output independence. Too expensive, though. Usethe web Luke! HTML5

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hope lots of #bib12 folks will try the new send @Readmill feature on http://jellybooks.com -first use of API ;)@henrikberggren




Reminded of how Mark Pilgrim switched from writing in DocBook to HTML http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2009/10/docbook-pandoc-rants-and-some-decent-free-fonts/ … #BiB12

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Максвелл говорит важные вещи: реальная практика паблишинга - это html. Блоги в wp, авторы пользуют markdown (вАмерике, правда) #BiB12

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Markdown + Dropbox, interesting #BiB12

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Worried about the disconnect between web and publishing mindsets - @jmaxsfu #bib12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "Encouraging things abound." He lists new pub frameworks under the HTML5 banner, beyond-blog in@WordPress, etc.

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interoperability and fluidity - real issues #bib12

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25 Oct Miguel Gallego @miguel_libro

En españa siempre ha sido artesanía..“@javiercelaya: La edición ya no es una industria, interesante reflexión de John Maxwell en#BIB12”

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HTML5 “is kind of a euphemism for JavaScript” —@jmaxsfu #BIB12

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"What if we treated nasty old HTML as if it was real markup? = universal API for everything" @jmaxsfu #bib12

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"What if we treated HTML as a universal API to everything?" - @jmaxsfu #BiB12

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Interoperability : in the DNA of the web, as Berners-Lee invented it @jmaxsfu #bib12

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HTML's success is in its ubiquity. - @jmaxsfu #bib12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "It's about interoperability...what if we treated 'nasty old HTML' as though it were real markup?"

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@TaosJohn @jmaxsfu @ljndawson But it's true that everyone else does. #bib12




"Industrial XML is utterly and hopelessly divorced from the world of writing." —@jmaxsfu #bib12

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Lightweight approach to the network has also created a number of significant problems, we're still having to deal with #bib12



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Markup is not about industrial efficiency anymore; it’s about interoperability and fluidity on the Web. —@jmaxsfu #BiB12

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"interoperability and fluidity" on the Web -- the key? #BiB12

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The problem with incidental markup and effortless markup is that most people miss important things, like #accessibility #bib12

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“The way we think about writing in Word is really different from the way we think about writing in structured markup.”—@jmaxsfu #bib12

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"Incidental markup. Effortless markup... It's the web, Luke" @jmaxsfu #bib12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "I want to revisit the web as a structured markup environment. I think you can do this without heavyindustry."

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The way that people think about content in Word is very different from how they think about content in structured markup.@jmaxsfu #BiB12

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Say it: wiki! #bib12

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25 Oct Jay Nelson @duomark

“@maxfenton: O’Reilly Atlas uses git for managing book content. #bib12 http://bit.ly/TIljQa ” /me git 3d print designs will benext

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"XML is utterly divorced from the world of writing." -John Maxwell at #BiB12

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XML ? Word ? Let's UNASK the question... @jmaxsfu #bib12

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"It's the web, Luke." @jmaxsfu #bib12

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#bib12 -- OReilly using github & ace code editor - authors asked for this! Too techy for non-techies, though. #oerpub trying tosolve.

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OxygenXML is not a writing environnment @jmaxsfu #bib12

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"unask the question" about working from Word to XML. @jmaxsfu #bib12

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Most of the reasons that Converting Word documents are social, not technological #bib12 although tools and MSFT couldimprove situation

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...problems xml was supposed to address are still with us! #bib12

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We've disparaged InDesign, now Word. We are so done with these tools! #bib12

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Oxygen XML, even the “author” version, is a code editor. “Most people write in Word.” —@jmaxsfu #BiB12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "Industrial XML is utterly and hopelessly divorced from the world of #writing...Most people still write inWord."

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If #bib12 wasn't in a church, I would be whooping much of what @jmaxsfu has to say

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"Most people write in Word, which is a bitter pill." @jmaxsfu #bib12

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Does anyone know what font @jmaxsfu is using? It's lovely. #gratefultobeatapublishingconference #bib12

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Максвелл: паблишинг -это не индустрия. Да. Если Random House &Penguin не паблишинг. #BiB12

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"Industrial XML is utterly and hopelessly divorced from the world of writing." =>Tools are non-existent #bib12

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but as an individual, I found producing DocBook XML to reuse it hard (and likely wasted) work. (I don't write on industrialscale!) #BiB12

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listening to talk on structured markup while doing structured markup #feelingmeta #BiB12

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@wdonohue Exactly. #bib12






#BiB12 @JMaxSFU The rationale for XML (about 1997) was as an exchange format for the Web.

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25 Oct Juan José Manzano @juanjomanzano

RT @javiercelaya La edición ya no es una industria, interesante reflexión de John Maxwell en #BIB12

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out of sight MT @porter_anderson: #BiB12 @jmaxsfu "Lots of ppl outsource [xml-tag-checking] editorial to South Asia" bc oflabor expense

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. @ljndawson Doing book at RRD-owned company in 1997, stream of text w/mark-up, parsed in Quark for output. Looked likecode to me. #bib12






RT @micycle: "Tree-shaped document structure is up there with moveable type" @jmaxsfu #bib12 "One of greatestachievements of all time"

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"Tree-shaped document structure is up there with moveable type" @jmaxsfu #bib12

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"Is publishing going to be an Industry any more"? John Maxwell #bib12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU The rationale for SGML (about 1986) included a "descriptive markup (with standardized parsing strategy)."

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Rationale for SGML: descriptive markup, method of indirection, parsing strategy, validity, tree-shaped doc structure #bib12

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Industrial-strength SGML “is a solution to the wrong set of problems.” Was originally “a way of avoiding vendor lock-in.”—@jmaxsfu #BiB12

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La edición ya no es una industria, interesante reflexión de John Maxwell en #BIB12

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"Publishing is not an industry anymore" #BiB12

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Уитвер: книги - это те же программы, а потому их можно делать, как программы. От этого и Атлас. Издатели будут вшоке. #BiB12

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@Porter_Anderson are you watching the live stream? Or here live? #bib12




#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "With respect to industry, I think #publishing is less industrial than it it has ever been.

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. @jmaxsfu Publishing is less industrial than it had been =>"Publishing is not an Industry anymore" #bib12

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Realistic things about XML costs and complexity. #BiB12

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publishing is less industrial he has never been @jmaxsfu #bib12

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@naypinya last year I was a BIB virgin - this year it's @micycle 's turn of being a #BiB12 virgin :)




RT @craigmod: RT @maxfenton: O’Reilly Atlas uses git for managing book content. #bib12 http://bit.ly/TIljQa

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RT @ljndawson @jmaxsfu talking about the document side of markup. Tracing the history of ML - X, HT, SG, and otherwise.#bib12 #xml

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "Lots of people outsource editorial to South Asia" because of labor expense & complexity of the skillsinvolved.

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Nobody talks about the enormous cost of having someone (editor) go through the xml and make sure the tags are right. -@jmaxsfu #bib12

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Another reference to a #NISO project today. First by @brianoleary on ESPRESSO http://bit.ly/drE8vX now JATS http://bit.ly/UI2oe5 #bib12

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VitalSource is a proud sponsor at the Books in Browsers Conference this week. Hope to see you there. #BIB12

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Costly and complex xml http://img.ly/oUyS @jmaxsfu #bib12

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MT@andrewsavikas: @adamwitwer Bravo! Great #bib12 talk +1

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I've tried to start authoring my own lecture notes in DocBook -- not that easy...helped by Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try ). #BiB12

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XML is an industrial-strenght technology @jmaxsfu #bib12 a serious investment - editorial work - kigh end editorial task

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@jmaxsfu "XML is an industrial-strength technology with Industrial-sized cost and complexity" #bib12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "Conventional wisdom says XML-first...XML is industrial-strength with industrial-size costs andcomplexity."

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@ljndawson it keeps going up and down between 112 and 114 now #bib12






GREAT to see @jmaxsfu questioning the dogma that publishers "need" XML-first workflows #bib12

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We are all bathed in golden light like california or tuscany says Canadaian @jmaxsfu - in a lyrical opening to his #bib12 xml talk

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. @jmaxsfu asking what types of publishers need to produce content in XML-first? #bib12

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do publishers need XML first workflows ? @jmaxsfu #bib12 What kind of publishers ? What XML exactly ?

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. @adamwitwer Bravo! Great #bib12 talk

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25 Oct Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson

RT @rdhyee: time to look at http://www.git-legit.org/ (Git for Humans) for inspiration for using git for publishing? #BiB12

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#BiB12 @JMaxSFU The basic business case has been made for SGML/XML ..."do *publishers* need XML-first workflows?"

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Be still my nerdy heart, @jmaxsfu's #BiB12 talk about markup is fascinating so far. http://oreil.ly/QGIg98

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XML = SGML reinvented for the web @jmaxsfu #bib12

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@TAC_NISO IT'S FULL OF LITTLE PEOPLE. @charabbott #bib12






:) RT @arhomberg: There are 150 folks attending #BiB12 but 230 devices on the IL network = 1.5 devices per person - bookgeeks!

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SGML/XML is for big documentation. #bib12

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@charabbott What's so interesting about Brewster's office, I wonder #bib12



25 Oct David N. Wright @davidnwright

Sweet! @jmaxsfu (John Maxwell SFU) is streaming at #bib12! Now I'm engaged: http://www.livestream.com/oreillytoc






#BiB12 @JMaxSFU "A manifesto for how we *think* about markup...SGML was designed for industry...XML inheritedSGML's ROI model."

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@younglibrarian Noooooooo! #bib12 #thisiswhereshitgetsreal




Maxwell: SGML was designed for doing documentation and publishing in industry, especially large corporations. #bib12

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#bib12 xml and sgml gets brought up by the presenter and the number of remote viewers goes down

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25 Oct Eileen Burbidge @eileentso

@henrikberggren @anna_cn @blaine @maureen @bfirsh wow, I love that you're all at the same event; clearly I'm missing out! :) #bib12






@jmaxsfu talking about the document side of markup. Tracing the history of ML - X, HT, SG, and otherwise. #bib12

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Its odd person in the pews who doesn't have a device in front of them. Well, except for the little people, they're paying attention#bib12

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Джон Максвелл из Канадского центра исследований паблишинга Университета им. Саймона Фрейзера про разметку#BiB12

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Атлас Орейли сидит на Git. Ничего не пропадет и все отслеживаемо. #BiB12

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Brewster Kahle's office, of course! RT @TAC_NISO: Wondering what is behind the second door behind the stage #bib12

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RT @katmeyer: We'll be talking Git for publishers at #TOCCON in Feb. http://bit.ly/Ptzk8Z #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: Woohoo, @adamwitwer is an English major! #bib12 #englishmajorsrule #wecanplayyourgeekygames

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@jmaxsfu is talking about markup. #swoon #bib12

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There are 150 folks attending #BiB12 but 230 devices on the IL network = 1.5 devices per person - book geeks!

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Paying close attention at Books in Browsers to a talk called "We Have the Tools – Let's Use Them" #BIB12



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Cheers for John Maxwell being from Canada #bib12 "much cooler being here in person as opposed to watching stream"

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"Users want PDF, don't know how to open EPUB" @AdamWitwer: what data may lurk there? phaps customer values not fullyunderstood #bib12

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@javiercelaya Dónde sacaste esa foto? Qué guapa! #librosvolasores #bib12




#BiB12 now changes to a preso from @JMaxSFU (Canadian!) on "The Webby Future of Structured Markup." Stream:http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ






I'll drink to that! RT @ljndawson: Woohoo, @adamwitwer is an English major! #bib12 #englishmajorsrule#wecanplayyourgeekygames #bib12

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There are about 150 people, but about 250 devices on the network. Average about 1.5 devices per person #bib12

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Wondering what is behind the second door behind the stage #bib12

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25 Oct Jennifer Omner @JenniferOmner

"Think of books as software." @adamwitwer #bib12

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"Books do belong in browsers." —@adamwitwer #bib12

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For those wondering, the numbers on either side of the stage are not psalm or page numbers.... #bib12

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#bib12 books are software

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "Look for tools with an active user base, open source, close enough...books do belong in browsers."

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@jmaxsfu is up next! #bib12

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“By using these tools, we can shape what they become…We publishers can shape our own destiny, rather than have them shapedfor us.” #BIB12



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25 Oct Meagan Timney @mbtimney

Another reference to the fact that we are in the business of making software, not books. #bib12

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Publishers say "we make books, not software..." @Oreillymedia 's @adamwitwer asks "are you sure?" #bib12#booksinbrowsers

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"Software is the guts of the modern book." -Adam Witwer at #BiB12

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RT @indiamos: “We in publishing still think we’re making books, not software. And my answer to that is, ‘Are you sure?’”—@adamwitwer #BiB12

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We'll be talking Git for publishers at #TOCCON in Feb. http://bit.ly/Ptzk8Z #bib12

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Books in Browsers is live streaming now, and tomorrow. Fun stuff for those of use who studied literature... http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct … #BiB12

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time to look at http://www.git-legit.org/ (Git for Humans) for inspiration for using git for publishing? #BiB12

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Woohoo, @adamwitwer is an English major! #bib12 #englishmajorsrule #wecanplayyourgeekygames

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"we in publishing create books, not software, WROnG" says, (if you publish EBooks, you publish software" @adamwitwer at#BiB12

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Making the point that a book is closer to software than we think. #bib12

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@adamwitwer Are publisher creating books are are they creating software? Subtle difference between programs & XML markup#bib12

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Yay, @adamwitwer shows the HTML of a book. #bib12

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“We in publishing still think we’re making books, not software. And my answer to that is, ‘Are you sure?’” —@AdamWitwer#BiB12

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer For text edit, built on Ace & made improvements for their authors. But #publishing people might say thisis too tech.

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I've used (and like!) Markdown -- how does it compare to http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ mentioned at #BiB12 ?

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RT @arhomberg: O'Reilly Atlas seems to be a mash up of the coolest tools available today to create a GitHub for digital bookcreation #BiB12

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Witwer рассказывает про http://atlas.lab.oreilly.com - коллаборативный онлайновый редактор O’Reilly Atlas. Жаль, этовнутренняя игрушка пока #BiB12

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Noooo! Markdown style formatting! In 2012! Still! We really do need new tools #bib12

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Alas RT @ownshelf: GitHub for writing books works for authors who use Git, i.e O'Reilly techies. Clever but not practical formost. #BiB12

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ValoBox Launches Pay-As-You-Go eBook Offering; O’Reilly Media, Guardian Books & Other Publishers Sign On http://tcrn.ch/THBJZ1 #bib12




O'Reilly Atlas seems to be a mash up of the coolest tools available today to create a GitHub for digital book creation #BiB12

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25 Oct Brendan LeFebvre @brendanl79

really?!?! git out! RT @indiamos: “best tool for the job of managing our content was…Git.” —@AdamWitwer #BiB12

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.@jenny8lee Wondering what type of work in general building on top of git and github for "non-programmers"? #BiB12



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25 Oct Libros del Silencio @libdelsilencio

RT @javiercelaya: Libros voladores descubiertos en San Francisco durante #BiB12 http://bit.ly/RlXdw6

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer When they exposed the software's (@github) metrics to writers, they (like code writers) were morecommunity-interested.

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Git works for Oreilly because their authors are programmers. But could Git/GitHub be model for collaborative writing for thefuture? #bib12

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Using #github for collaborative book making. I like. #bib12

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The source for *Oral Literature in Africa* (@unglueit's first unglued book) is available in github: https://github.com/Gluejar/oral_literature_in_africa … #BiB12

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Git Hub for writing books works for authors who use Git. i.e O'Reilly techies. Clever, but not practical for most. #BiB12

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RT @micycle: Kind of suspect most publishers do not have authors already using git #bib12 #bitniche Yep, pos true for@OReillyMedia authors

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "The #author can use @github to build community around a #book." #Writing a book & writing codeare solo activities.

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@indiamos And those users are obv. based in tech subjects. Wondering how it can expand to non-tech authors. Training? #bib12@adamwitwer






a tool for collaborative bookmaking @adamwitwer. #BiB12

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"Writing a book and writing code are fundamentally solo activities." but something like github can change that. #bib12@adamwitwer

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So very happy about all these talks at #bib12. It's lovely to watch digital reading and writing evolve from year to year.

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Love that they help heat the building! RT @TAC_NISO: There is a quiet hum of the Wayback Machine servers in the back of theroom at #bib12

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RT @indiamos: Most O'Reilly users prefer PDF; “say they don’t know how to open the EPUB. Something we need to fix.”—@adamwitwer #BiB12

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"authors can use github to build a community around a book" @AdamWitwer #bib12

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@KateRados Thank you! achoo! #bib12




“best tool for the job of managing our content was…Git.” It’s “what our users were already using in their normal lives.”—@AdamWitwer #BiB12

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "git has been successful for us, #authors happy with what they asked for. @github is where our#authors already are."

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Which is why isituating near them RT @TAC_NISO: @charabbott I guess we could use a bit more server power - kind of chillytoday at #bib12

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Kind of suspect most publishers do not have authors already using git... #bib12 #bitniche

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"Using git for managing book contents, partly because users were already using it for their other projects" @AdamWitwer#bib12

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@lizcastro @adamwitwer but they know how to use bit! So is O'Reilly a GitHub for EBooks? #BiB12






I was lucky enough to work with Atlas when I was at O'Reilly. It was a lot of fun to play with. #bib12

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O’Reilly Atlas uses git for managing book content. #bib12 http://bit.ly/TIljQa

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "I've come to think of 'we need a tool for..' to be a game." For developing content, they found git (Atlason top).

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Allergy attack right before I speak. Yay. #bib12

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RT @jwikert Approximately 80% of @oreillymedia 2013 titles will be built using Atlas platform, @adamwitwer. #BiB12#TOCcon

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25 Oct Mark Armstrong @markarms

Listening to @AdamWitwer at #BiB12 http://toc.oreilly.com/

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Totally psyched to meet @palanidaran in person! #bib12

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>>>xml publishing tool chain used at O'reilly #bib12

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Approximately 80% of @oreillymedia 2013 titles will be built using Atlas platform, @adamwitwer. #BiB12 #TOCcon

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80% of ORM books will be published with the Atlas platform? Whoa. #BIB12

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer shows us Atlas functionality. He expects much of the @OReillyMedia output to be published on theAtlas platform in 2013.

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Most O'Reilly users prefer PDF; “they say they don’t know how to open the EPUB. This is something we need to fix.”—@AdamWitwer #BiB12

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"Users say they just want PDF, they don't know how to open the EPUB. This is something we need to fix" @AdamWitwer#bib12

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Great to see our new Atlas content development platform presented by @adamwitwer at #BiB12. #TOCcon

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+1 RT @micycle: "We need new tools" @adamwitwer #bib12 http://img.ly/oUvP

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@charabbott I guess we could use a bit more server power - kind of chilly today at #bib12




presenting a book "100% inDesign free"... @adamwitwer #bib12

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@fakebaldur Well, when pubs aren't even using what's AVAILABLE, we have a problem. #bib12




Libros voladores descubiertos en San Francisco durante #BiB12 http://bit.ly/RlXdw6

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.@adamwitwer just got applause for an InDesign-free interior design #bib12

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Or not! Now it seems we don't need new tools... Or at least, O'Reilly doesn't - rolled their own: "Atlas" #bib12

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Wow "InDesign-Free" is a phrase that elicited applause from the publishing audience at #bib12. Who knew?

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@adamwitwer "You can create beautiful books without InDesign" #bib12

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Quels sont les outils que nous n'utilisons pas ? @adamwitwer #bib12

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@TAC_NISO God, right? #bib12




Using tools for digital publishing? O'Reilly digpub guru @adamwitwer now presenting at #BiB12. Tune in here: http://goo.gl/JEC6E #TOCcon

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Is there an eBook version? :) RT @atelier7_ana: RT @micycle: Great freebie at #bib12 http://img.ly/oUvf

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When you think about the direction in which the digital book is headed, using existing tools for the web makes sense.@adamwitwer #bib12

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "The Internet offers us a wealth of tools...Starting now, I'm officially banning 'we need new tools.'"



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@ljndawson I guess the publishing world needs a bit more Robin Williams #bib12




New tools and single standards are a red herring. The biggest challenge for trad publishing is organizational change. #bib12

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25 Oct Pierre Disp @Pierre_Danet

“publishing tweeps, very cool event Books in Browsers today in San Francisco. Live stream here: http://oreil.ly/QGlg98 #BiB12”cc @Laudrain

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Tried to show Monarch Butterfly to @katepullinger and was totally embarrassed that iBooks3 had erased it from my iPad! :(#bib12 #fixing

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "I'm worried we're getting more and more desperate waiting for tools from heaven...for someone to solveour probs."

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Tools from heaven. And @@adamwitwer was given wings - perhaps from RedBull #bib12

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"We need new tools" @adamwitwer #bib12 http://img.ly/oUvP

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Tools from heaven! @adamwitwer #bib12

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Адам Уитвер из Oreilly Media - инженер из Орейли - о том, что всё для издателей есть, да они этим не пользуются #BiB12

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@adamwitwer talking about tools for making books more dynamic and webby. #bib12

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer "Yes I did raid the @OReillyMedia design server" for the cool animal engravings he's using in his preso.:)

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Adam Witwer @adamwitwer the next #bib12 speaker "And yes [he] did raid the @OReillyMedia design server"

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My brilliant @oreillymedia colleague @adamwitwer now presenting at #BiB12. Tune in here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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#BiB12 @adamwitwer The title of this talk, "We've Got the Tools. Let's Start Using Them," is a response to the line "we need



new tools."

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RT @mbtimney: I am in publishing geek heaven. #bib12

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RT @Porter_Anderson #BiB12 Now starting: @adamwitwer "We've Got the Tools. Let's Start Using Them" - live stream:http://ow.ly/eLG1J




@TAC_NISO We have to, or we're doomed. #bib12




@eduardcabus Sí. I a l'altra banda de l'escenari hi ha el número daurat… #bib12






Yay @adamwitwer! Starting a slew of talks directed to publishers #bib12

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Will everyone be greeting the little people in the audience. I think they're getting special treatment! #bib12

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#BiB12 Now starting: @adamwitwer "We've Got the Tools. Let's Start Using Them" - The @OReillyMedia live stream:http://ow.ly/eLG1J




@MatthewDiener I can hear you rolling your eyes FROM HERE. #ISBNhour #bib12




#BiB12 a few housekeeping notes are going on right now with @Naypinya, our @InternetArchive host....

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I am in publishing geek heaven. #bib12

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Books n Bluegrass #BIB12

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Great freebie at #bib12 http://img.ly/oUvf

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25 Oct Matt Powlson @BlueWorksLtd

@fakebaldur I particularly enjoyed "leaving reflowable ebooks in a ghetto of our own creation." OK, back to #BiB12...




Starting now #BiB12 10:15aPT/1:15pET hour: @ljndawson "When a #Book Is Not a Book." Stream: http://ow.ly/eKnf3



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#BiB12 There are terra cotta figures of @InternetArchive employees on pews in the sanctuary. http://ow.ly/i/13IYn

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Ahhhh watching the #BIB12 live stream is making me excited for future conferences. #dbw, #toc, #awp ahoy!

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Somebody please bring @brianoleary a puppy or buy him a drink at #BiB12.

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25 Oct Firebrand Tech @ASKBURNIE

Chief Ignitor @ftoolan is at #BiB12 in #SanFran for the rest of the week. Be sure to say hello! #publishing #Firebrand

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RT @TAC_NISO: . @brianoleary "Did I scare you, I really, really wanted to...." #bib12 Parisian catacombs & loss of optimism.#halloween4pubs

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@ljndawson @brianoleary A sea of text data chunks, signed by authoring agent w/a cryptographic hash function. Verifiableanalytics. #bib12




Love that musicians are playing on the Internet Archive stage, with Pi and the Golden Number as displayed hymn numbers#bib12

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Can't wait to hear @AdamWitwer talk! Been too long #BIB12

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des journées entières dans les twitts... Suivi le LT #SGDL du coin de l'œil, participé présentation twitter Editis, et enfin LT de#bib12

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"@arhomberg: #BiB12 - disruptive innovation, MVP, container, lean, agile, cross-platform" Dude, Stop tweeting my biz plan!

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I'm presenting today at #BIB12 11:30AM PT/2:30 EST on 'You've picked your authoring platform, now what?' http://oreil.ly/S5a5ZU #Livestream

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#BiB12 Next up will be @AdamWitwer "We've Got the Tools. Let's Start Using Them" -- at about 10:15aPT / 1:15pET Stream:http://ow.ly/eLG1J




Участники конференции #bib12 #fb pic.twitter.com/USPo6Ivm




RT @ljndawson: @brianoleary "Minimum viable product might not have an identifier at all." PERISH THE THOUGHT!



#bib12 <=here we go. #ISBNHour

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25 Oct Jean Kaplansky @JeanKaplansky

@arhomberg That's not country on #BiB12. It's #americana.




@arhomberg yeah, like New Order. ;) #bib12 #bib12




RT @v_clayssen: we don't have better data analytics, we have more data #brianoleary #bib12 <=Amen to that, brother.

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Worst part about #BiB12 country & western music in the breaks, can't we have something more cutting edge?

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A "decentralized point of control" per @brianoleary could be a library, yes, but it could also be a damn book #bib12

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@TAC_NISO @younglibrarian I'm listening to them while working on some stuff. Nice music. #bib12




@justohidalgo @anna_cn there were last year, wear mine to the gym regularly #BiB11 now one year out f date #BiB12



25 Oct Stacie Berger @stacieberger

First vaca day since July... and the #bib12 tweets keep pulling me in. At least I'm outside enjoying a sunny 80 degree day!

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25 Oct Peter Turner @Ampersand_Pubs

@brianoleary "Nobody owns [the network], everyone can use it, anybody can improve it." Yes, but it needs soil and seed.#BiB12

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@brianoleary "Nobody owns [the network], everyone can use it, anybody can improve it." Yes, but it needs soil and seed.#BiB12

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RT @younglibrarian: heh :D the #bib12 live feed has hold music => It's live, no pre-recorded muzak here....

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#BiB12 @PenguinBooks @RandomHouse news: "No certainty that the discussions will lead to transaction.”@LauraHazardOwen http://ow.ly/eLFn0




First it was wee people. Now it's Giants #bib12

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Oh, I so need to get up and out of the pews. So not good at sitting long-term like this #bib12

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@naypinya I really feel like I'm missing out on the T-shirt this year, sigh #BiB12

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heh :D the #bib12 live feed has hold music

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I will be wrapping my tee-shirt around myself. #bib12 #cold

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#BiB12 now goes into a 15-minute break as @brianoleary finishes his preso. (And we're being told there are T-shirts for us.)

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25 Oct Kate Rados @KateRados

I'm being silly of course - he's brilliant - and I'm a huge fan. #BIB12 @brianoleary

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@abugseye Will do. They're anxious to see that there aren't any left #bib12




Some french words to conclude Brian"s presentation : "Entrée des catacombes" Yes, he is "no more optimistic"... #bib12

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25 Oct Nettie Lagace @abugseye

@TAC_NISO can you bring me a copy of The Futurist's Manifesto, please? Thx! #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "We can resist the change...or we can learn new rules & prepare for the opportunities in networkedpublishing."

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"Did I scare you? I wanted to. I really wanted to." - @brianoleary #BiB12

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'Did I scare you? I wanted to. I really, really wanted to.' < --- Best #BIB12 pullquote from @brianoleary

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@brianoleary is going dark. Ends on slide of the entrance to the Parisian catacombs #bib12

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25 Oct James Bridle @jamesbridle

Waves at Books in Browser. Sorry I can’t be there this year. Have an excellent, fascinating time. #bib12

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. @brianoleary "Did I scare you, I really, really wanted to...." #bib12



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.@brianoleary touching on the economy of networked publishing - that it's can't be about scarcity anymore. #bib12

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Go @brianoleary citing @dsearls and his book The Intention Economy http://amzn.to/UHO8BS #bib12




Internet Archive stage is between Pi Number and Golden Number (of Golden Proportion) the most beautiful numbers #BiB12#BiB2012

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#BiB12 @brianoleary on @DSearls' "Nobody ow ns it, everyone can use it, anybody can improve it."

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Preparing for the networked present: Standards, Structure, Sense @brianoleary #BiB12

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What if the book is the algorithm ? (devrait te plaire, @hubertguiilaud ? ) @brianoleary #bib12

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Is @smalldemons here now at #bib12?

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"we are trying to apply our publishing model to the network; we should be applying the network model to our publishing"@brianoleary #BiB12

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. @brianoleary referencing the talk that @R_Nash gave last week at #NISOEbooks #bib12

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"What if the book is the algorithm?" - @r_nash as quoted by @brianoleary at #bib12

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RT @ljndawson: @brianoleary Publishers need to "embrace decentralized points of control." Right. That's gonna happen.#bib12

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25 Oct Stefanie Syman @stefaniesyman

At Books In Browsers in SF. Had never been inside the Internet Archives. Lovely. Chilly! Love the idea of subcompactpublishing. #BiB12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "Investing in discovery standards, content structure" & market-facing "...are hedges toward long-termsustainability."

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Brian O'Leary discusses preparation for the networked present: standards, structure, and sense. #bib12

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I SHALL BE TALKING ABOUT these standards @brianoleary is referring to. The ones not yet invented. #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary names standards, structure, and sense as the three keys to "the networked present."

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+1 => . @brianoleary Preparing for the networked present +> We need more standards, to ensure access and interoperability.#bib12

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25 Oct Sebastien Dubuis @Publiwide

New iBooks proposing "scroll" as a reading concept. Good to see that we got it right. And there is even more good news ... #epub#bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "A shift to networked #publishing lowers barriers to creation of content, but amplifies return for contentproviders"

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I'd want to ask @brianoleary how readers tend to align in networks. #bib12

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We want to apply publishing models to the network, but what we really need to do is apply network models to publishing.—@brianoleary #BiB12

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"We need to apply the network model to publishing" @brianoleary at #bib12

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The book, as it is now, is a silo. #bib12

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"apply the network model to publishing" @brianoleary #bib12

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RT @ljndawson @brianoleary Publishers need to "embrace decentralized points of control." Right. That's gonna happen. #bib12

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The Internet is "our sea of stories" - @brianoleary #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary on @Kevin2Kelly's thinking: "the ends of the network are readers, information consumers, recombinantopportunities"

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.@brianoleary seems to have 3 copies of "How the Irish Saved Civilization" #bib12

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@brianoleary "And that's when I lost my optimism" about traditional publishing. #bib12

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+1 RT @PeterTurner: @brianoleary We don't have better metrics we have more data. #bib12 =>Applies in so manyenvironments!

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"Abandoning the highly successful" #BiB12 #true #futurepublizing




@brianoleary Publishers need to "embrace decentralized points of control." Right. That's gonna happen. #bib12

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Might not a network be a network of users with specific interests and content needs? #bib12

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Specialized content management systems allowed publishers to succeed, but now they are trapped by the limitations of thosesystems #bib12

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@brianoleary We don't have better metrics we have more data. #bib12

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#BiB12 I've heard disruptive innovation, MVP, container - waiting to hear to hear: lean, agile, cross-platform and "friends fromSeattle"

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we don't have better data analytics, we have more data #brianoleary #bib12

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@brianoleary "Minimum viable product might not have an identifier at all." PERISH THE THOUGHT! #bib12

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. @brianoleary Authoring has been democratized. Problem is repository function not as easy to replicate. Distribution is fairlyeasy #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "Now, the “minimum viable product can be a #book, a chapter, a component...a snippet, anything that canbe monetized."

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Network publishing is not a matter of creating networks among contents but of which network is getting dominant @brianoleary#bib12

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I’m at Books in Browsers conference, at the glorious @InternetArchive, SF http://bit.ly/TcAsIH stream http://bit.ly/TcAv7o #bib12

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distribute ebooks directly ? @brianoleary says good luck #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "What we need to do starts with the recognition that the (#publishing) platform is one to build on, not justbuild."

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@arhomberg Yes, that's where we are this year. #bib12 is getting too big to be in the basement.




YES "market power depends on the 'quality of usabilty'" - Helmut von Berg via @brianoleary #bib12

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Helmut von Berg: Network power points to "market power depending on the quality of usability in non-pre-determinedenvironments" #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary quotes @hvonberg ..."Market power is created not by sales strength, but...usability in non-predeterminedenvironments.”

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25 Oct Ingram Content Group @IngramContent

VitalSource to participate in several upcoming events for #BIB12 #LECOM #PLSsummit #AAMC12 #EDU12 #paeaforum#imsglobal | See you there!

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Market powers depends on the "quality of usability" @brianoleary #bib12

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Market power depends on "the quality of usability." @brianoleary #BiB12

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#bib12 Books in Browsers, @craigmod recommends the subcompact model of publishing - small issues, small size, nopagination, html, low-cost

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Прошлый твит был открыткой всем gatekeepers от Брайна О’Лири #BiB12

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"The abundance [of digital] will not accrue to the incumbents." @brianoleary at #bib12 where he is no longer optimistic.

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@arhomberg I am doing the very same #bib12 :)


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“The opportunity in abundance will not accrue to its incumbents.” —@brianoleary #BiB12

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RT @TAC_NISO: We need a better system for single sign on for access to content across different platforms per @brianoleary#bib12

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25 Oct Kevin Franco @FRANCOMEDIA

"The opportunity of abundance will not accrue to its incumbents." Brian O'Leary #BIB12

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25 Oct Walrus Ebooks @studiowalrus

Monopolies are not your friends. Monopolies want to f**k you, or kill you if they can't. #penguinhouse #badnewsforbooks#bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "I was optimistic that publishers...would soon see their mutual need for a data-driven" view of#publishing.

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Solved my streaming problem by tuning down to low-quality stream #BiB12

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We need a better system for single sign on for access to content across different platforms per @brianoleary #bib12

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@brianoleary "a year spent wrangling over the role of libraries, a year spent kicking the can down the road on DRM..." #bib12

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@arhomberg Jealous of your comfortable seat! #bib12






From @brianoleary: "Content providers have the opportunity to meet the needs of a market that does not yet exist" #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "Continuing to create and distribute static #books = declining prices, lower margins, less income toreinvest."

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. @naypinya Creating static books that are trapped in packages will lead to lower margins, fewer sales ... you get the idea #bib12

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@brianoleary talking about networked publishing, which NEEDS to happen. #bib12

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25 Oct Marc Jahjah @SoBookOnline

Hashtag #bib12 pour suivre Books in Browser 2012 + live : http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct …

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@crgc @ajaxlogos sitting on the sofa in my living room watching live #bib12 stream - bless 8 hour time difference!




"jobs to be done" seems to becoming a theme at #bib12

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@indiamos @craigmod maybe 'adaptive' is more apropos? #bib12



25 Oct mlukanuski @mlukanuski

#bib12. Thanks for live streaming. @craigmod thanks! Solid assessment of recent UX reading paradigms #ux #leanux

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "@ClayChristensen has been exploring the idea that consumers hire products & services to fulfill an



identified need"

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. @brianoleary "Cos maintaining platforms, keeping better user functionality & user focused are most successful" =>Also trapcustomer #bib12

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@brianoleary is NAILING it. #bib12

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25 Oct Andrew Malkin @armco

#Leanconsumption article via @HarvardBiz cited by @brianoleary at #bib12 http://hbr.org/2005/03/lean-consumption/ar/1 …

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Here's the @harvardbiz article @brianoleary mentioned - note that there's a paywall beyond the preview, however. http://ow.ly/eLCYc #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "Most publishing activities remain focused on the development and dissemination of containers."

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#BiB12 @brianoleary cites principles from James Womack and Daniel Jones: "why market power shifted from providers tonetworked platforms."

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On stage of IA the every speaker is as prophet. The former church #BiB12

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@booksquare Looks like I am knitting a giant slanket. #bib12




For those of you at home and are wondering what the referencs to the wee people are, here's a picture http://flic.kr/p/azQtus #bib12






Thanks for the @harvardbiz shoutout at #bib12, @brianoleary! (Lean consumption principles from Jones and Womack)

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The first #bib12 presentation, @craigmod on "subcompact publishing," was very inspiring in terms of what I want Beatrice to be.

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@micycle I shall be talking to THEM. #bib12




@ljndawson Here you go: http://img.ly/oUlK The wee people at #bib12

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. @brianoleary Content as a service is already moving forward successful in a number of domains. #bib12



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#BiB12 @brianoleary "To get there, though, we’re obligated to reframe our models and focus on the needs of individuals."

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#BiB12 @brianoleary "I believe we’re at a point at which we can do more than just send our content to aggregators."

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The library within us - Брайан О’Лири из Magellan Media #BiB12 Он, как и Моуд, перед этим, пошутил про церковь. IA иправда в бывшей церкви

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#BiB12 @brianoleary The Library Within us is..."tools and resources that individuals can draw upon to...change the worldaround us."

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Applause for George McGovern. #bib12 @brianoleary

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25 Oct Brendan LeFebvre @brendanl79

#eprdctn #BiB12 RT @textfiles Watch the Books in Browsers conf, being held at the Internet Archive, streamed here:http://oreil.ly/UHJLHc

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News of the Pearson/Random talks has reached the non-connected portion of the #bib12 audience, to subdued murmurs.

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Anybody else having trouble with the #BiB12 feed? I keep loosing the signal

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Next speaker is @brianoleary at #bib12, talking about "The Library within us" - collection of tools/resource to change our world

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“It’s easy to dismiss something like The Magazine and I don’t think we should.” —@craigmod http://bit.ly/TimoSr #bib12

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#BiB12 @brianoleary of Magellan Media - his topic is "The #Library Within Us."

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Someone needs to take a pic of the small people so Twitterverse knows what we r talking about. #bib12

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am totally sucked into the #bib12 live feed. up now is @brianoleary

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@TheMagazineApp working (profitable) example of subcompact publishing system @craigmod #bib12



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LIke @craigmod discussion about the need for simplicity, elegance and lightweight content in the digital reading experience#BiB12 #TOCcon

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Impressive. RT @Porter_Anderson: @Wattpad has 10 million active readers, 10,000 stories read each min, 2.5 billion mins permonth. #Bib12

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25 Oct Rebecca Smart @rebecsmart

Wish I could be there RT @charabbott: An improvement over last year! RT @katepullinger: RT @anna_cn: Impressed, bindersof women at #bib12

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@jillemery Odd, on their website, it says $1.99 http://the-magazine.org/ #bib12






Вау. The Magazine окупился за 2 часа. 80% - подписчиками. При том, что @marcoarment собирался закрыть ч/з 2 мес,если нет #fb #BiB12

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An improvement over last year! RT @katepullinger: RT @anna_cn: Impressed...looks like there are binders of women at#bib12. #Bib12

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#bib12 who is going to play those guitars in the corner?

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#BiB12 @CraigMod is wrapping his preso now, having shown us @TheMagazineApp as the "subcompact #publishing system"he'd like to see more of.

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Wow. >80% of @themagazineapp trials have stayed on to become paying subscribers, per @craigmod #BiB12 #TOCcon

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toc: .@craigmod just took the stage at #BiB12. Watch the full event livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon http://ow.ly/2sRFyI

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#BiB12 @CraigMod's on @TheMagazineApp -- "an entire 'subcompact #publishing system.'"...said to have "reachedprofitability in 2 hours."

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The subcompact magazine publishing model in a nutshell http://img.ly/oUpI #bib12

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Exiting and comforting: @TAC_NISO: There is a quiet hum of the Wayback Machine servers in the back of the room at #bib12

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25 Oct Citia @GoCitia



MT @porter_anderson: #BiB12 2day @ 1:30pPT / 4:30pmET :@mtamblyn of @kobo on data + @manconley of @ACLUStream:http/ow.ly:/ /eKkWZ

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“@KateRados: What did you guys DO?!?!? RT @ljndawson: Earthquake warning at #bib12. Ye gods.” no way

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#BiB12 @CraigMod's looks at the simplicity of @TheMagazineApp, ease of navigation, accessible toc, easy recoup of deletedcontent.

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.@craigmod présente The Magazine http://the-magazine.org/ #bib12

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RT @TAC_NISO: Four is a number of death in Chinese (and/or) Japanese, so all those quarterly publications, yeah you're introuble #bib12

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At #bib12 @craigmod on people being dismissive of disruptive ideas reminded me of 'Why great ideas get rejected' http://ht.ly/eLyDQ

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“the hamburger button” = the common menu button that's three horizontal bars. <3 <3 <3 #BiB12

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Books in Browsers conference underway. Live stream here http://toc.oreilly.com/ #BiB12

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Oh, so the table of contents icon us called a "hamburger" because it vaguely looks like a Big Mac #BiB12

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Really wish @themagazineapp was available on Android. @craigmod showing how slick it is at #BiB12. #TOCconhttp://oreil.ly/bwAast



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#bib12 publishers need to figure out R$$

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Celebration of HTML here at #bib12. Lovefest.

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Oops...was tweeting on hashtag #bib instead of #bib12. Those bible people must be a bit confused. Sorry guys!

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RT @jwikert: If you measure success by #BiB12 attendee usage Apple's Newsstand service is a failure. >70% haven't used at all.#TOCcon

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Рассказ @craigmod о сверхкомпактном паблишинге логично перешел к The Magazine от @marcoarment #BiB12

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#BiB12 @CraigMod describes a "subcompact #publishing" system's basics and looks at the #Apple's Newsstand as "an RSS youcan pay for."

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Four is a number of death in Chinese (and/or) Japanese, so all those quarterly publications, yeah you're in trouble #bib12

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@jwikert I hate it. #bib12 And I love me some magazines.




"It is so so easy to dismiss which is why I LOVE it." — @CraigMod, talking about http://the-magazine.org/ at #BiB12

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@craigmod how to use fairly apple newsstand in a subcompact publishing system #bib12

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The Magazine app is highlighted by @craigmod #bib12

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Now @craigmod is bigging up HTML in Newsstand. I'm good with that :) #bib12

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If you measure success by #BiB12 attendee usage Apple's Newsstand service is a failure. >70% haven't used at all. #TOCcon

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.@craigmod : newsstand is an RSS reader you can charge for #bib12



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80% of ppl at this digital publishing conference have never used Apple's Newsstand. #fail #bib12

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Heads up! RT @matthewdiener: The #BiB12 livestream is from this URL: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ #ePrdctn #toccon #dbw#Bib12




~80% of the people in this room have never used iOS newsstand. @craigmod thinks we should be more taking advantage of it.#BiB12

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. @craigmod The newsstand element of the Apple Ecosystem that is under utilized =>More than 80% of #bib12 attendees neverused

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Wow. 80% of people at #bib12 have never used Apple iPad newstand. It's an RSS reader essentially.

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Publishing is really good at publishing to the web. We're not so good pushing to Apple ecosystem. => How about producing printtoo #bib12

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RT @matthewdiener: The actual #BiB12 livestream is from this URL: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ #ePrdctn #toccon #dbw




@neustudio We are EVERYWHERE. #knitting #eprdctn #bib12




More websites need a "F'IN Publish" button @craigmod #bib12

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The actual #BiB12 livestream is from this URL: http://bit.ly/PSxCxZ #ePrdctn #toccon #dbw




#BiB12 @CraigMod A job-still-to-be-done (well) is getting people to subscribe to a web product without it feeling like a betterRSS.

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25 Oct susan neuhaus @neustudio

@ljndawson wow! another #eprdctn knitter! cool! #BiB12




#BiB12 @CraigMod turns to "jobs to be done...people don't look for products to buy, they encounter an problem and look for asolution."

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25 Oct Charles Catton @crgc



@ajaxlogos London a disease-ridden swamp? Not from our lofty heights of Islington perspective. Agree re #BiB12 though.




@indiamos iBooks just did this. #bib12 @craigmod #iamexcitedaboutthat




“When you get rid of pagination, navigation becomes a quite simple problem to solve.” —@craigmod #BiB12

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NO PDFs #bib12

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#BiB12 @CraigMod (Subcompact #publishing qualities)...no pagination...dead-simple navigation...HTML(ish) based.

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25 Oct Andrew Malkin @armco

Where is our digital equivalent of the Japanese subcompact? What are their qualities? queries @craigmod #BiB12 fluid orindigenous pub cycle

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Tuned into channel TOC and now watching #BiB12 on my TV in London, cookies at hand, too

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RT @kissane: The Christiansen article @craigmod just mentioned: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/10/clay-christensen-on-the-news-industry-we-didnt-quite-understand-how-quickly-things-fall-off-the-cliff/ …. Also Christiansen & Skok:http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102798/Breaking-News.aspx … #BiB12




I do not like reading magazines on my iPad. I like reading them on my laptop, though. But I am weird. @craigmod #bib12

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#BiB12 @CraigMod (Subcompact #publishing qualities)...small file sizes...reasonable subscription price...fluid publishingschedule...



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The Christiansen article @craigmod just mentioned: http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/10/clay-christensen-on-the-news-industry-we-didnt-quite-understand-how-quickly-things-fall-off-the-cliff/ …. See also Christiansen & Skok:http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102798/Breaking-News.aspx … #BiB12




#BiB12 @CraigMod "So where is our digital #publishing subcompact?...(Criteria might include:) small issue sizes, 3-7articles?...

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THIS --> MT @jwikert: As @craigmod is showing, if your tablet app requires UI instructions it's too complicated. #BiB12

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@KatMeyer Right? Well, I don't have to worry about hot flashes. #upside #bib12 #womanofacertainage






Verlagsmenschen! Bitte folgt #bib12, der wohl wichtigsten Konferenz für neues Publizieren. Hier der Livestream:http://toc.oreilly.com/?imm_mid=099290&cmp=em-toc-news-biblivestreaming-direct …

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Love where @craigmod is going with this: "Where is our digital publishing subcompact"? #bib12

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Looks like we're going over the worse-is-better argument. No bad thing. #bib12

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@ljndawson knit me a sweater please. #bib12




Now @wattpad has 3.5 billion minutes per month on site. 30K stories updated every day. 650 writers have broken 1 millionviews. #bib12.

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#BiB12 @CraigMod The observation is that the Japanese automotive success started as post-War compacts that were consideredjokes.

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As @craigmod is showing, if your tablet app requires UI instructions it's too complicated. #BiB12 #TOCcon http://oreil.ly/bwAast

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simplicity #bib12

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RT @tsutrav: PUBLISHING: the Books in Browsers conference is being live-streamed http://toc.oreilly.com/ #BiB12

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Today @wattpad has 3.5 billion minues per month on site. 30K stories updated every day. #bib12.

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Interesting point from @craigmod =>Paper was easy to read, but UX on digital devices need lots of instruction #bib12

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#BiB12 @CraigMod says he went through #iPad instructional graphics that have gotten more and more complicated. Again@ClayChristensen

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25 Oct Promita Chatterji @pchatterji

#bib12 attendees get discount at Green Apple books. Love this coming together of book peoples.

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25 Oct tsutrav @tsutrav

PUBLISHING: the Books in Browsers conference is being live-streamed http://toc.oreilly.com/ #BiB12

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Ante cualquier innovación, la postura más fácil es rechazar, cuestionar, criticar... @craigmod #BiB12

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#BiB12 @CraigMod The other startup he talks about is a post-quake venture, @TokyoOtakuMode / launched AS a @Facebookpage / 7m fans.

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Wattpad действительно кажется невнятной кучей. Но вот такая статистика #BiB12

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#BiB12 @CraigMod - @Wattpad has some 10 million active readers, 10,000 stories read each minute, 2.5 billion minutes permonth.

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#BiB12 @CraigMod quotes @ClayChristensen and offers two startups that WERE easy to dismiss, but aren't now. One is@Wattpad.

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Is it too early in the day to drink? @craigmod just said "disruption." #BIB12

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It's cold in here #bib12

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First reference to @claychristensen and disruptors at #bib12. Drink.

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Publishing nerds: Books in Browsers live-streaming now, http://oreil.ly/bwAast . Full schedule here, http://bib.archive.org/2012/07/12/bib-2012-program … #digpublishing #bib12

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Oh cool. @craigmod has invented another new king of publishing. "subcompact" #bib12

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.@craigmod just took the stage at #BiB12. Watch the full event livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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.@craigmod just took the stage at #BiB12. Watch the full event livestream here: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon

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#BiB12 Our first speaker is @CraigMod: "Thank you, Brewster, for buying a church and putting the Internet in the back of it."

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25 Oct MSU Libraries @msulibraries

RT @TAC_NISO: Free Live Streaming 4th Annual Books in Browsers Conference at http://toc.oreilly.com/ #bib12

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@craigmod up now at #bib12

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'Rocking Our World'? (hawww) RT @ljndawson: @KateRados Um. It may be the power of all these great minds. #bib12#rockstarbookishpeeps

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No coffee allowed in Great Room. Hurting my brain. #bib12

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#BiB12 runs as a series of short talks, usually one hour session (of 2 or 3 speakers), then a break, FYI. Stream: http://ow.ly/eLxAY

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@twliterary Are you coming to #bib12? Around more generally?

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@KateRados Um. It may be the power of all these great minds. #bib12 #rockstarbookishpeeps




reassuring words from @naypinya The building has survived many earthquakes, so you just need to sit and scream in your seat at#bib12

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kudos to the ever-awesome @pablod for his personal #BiB12 sponsorship

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Haven't been warned about being in an earthquake zone and what to do if the building starts to shake before #bib12 Hide underpews

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What did you guys DO?!?!? RT @ljndawson: Earthquake warning at #bib12. Ye gods.

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#BiB12 Please remember you can see these session on a free live stream from the @InternetArchive via @OReillyMedia:http://ow.ly/eLx6w

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Earthquake warning at #bib12. Ye gods.

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#bib12 "scream in place" in case of an earthquake... ok!

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Free Live Streaming 4th Annual Books in Browsers Conference at http://toc.oreilly.com/ #bib12

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Stream is up! http://toc.oreilly.com/ #bib12

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#BiB12 Opening @Naypinya tells us that all attendees get a copy of Book: A Futurists Manifesto, cool. http://ow.ly/eLwU9




There is a quiet hum of the Wayback Machine servers in the back of the room at #bib12

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+10^99999 RT @lizcastro: Kudos to #bib2012, always has best wifi and electricity of any conference I've ever been to. #bib12

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"Book publishing is how we think things through as people." - @brewster_kahle #bib12

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Welcoming comments from @brewster_kahle at #bib12 on the anchoring role of libraries in distributing content

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RT @jwikert: We got a late start at Books in Browsers but the livestream will be starting shortly: http://oreil.ly/bwAast #TOCcon #BiB12

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?!? RT @micycle: Crowd waiting with bated breath for #bib12 to start http://img.ly/oUlK

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#BIB12 has grown so much We've moved upstairs to the pews at the @internetarchive

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