BookExpoCast

For our final BEA podcast of 2010, we take you back to the final day of this year’s conference. In our first-ever live webcast from the show floor, we caught up with David Burleigh, Director of Marketing at OverDrive, Inc.

As a sponsor of the IDPF Digital Book 2010 conference, Overdrive is empowering publishers, enterprises, libraries, schools, and retailers to maximize their presences in the digital world by enabling them to securely manage, protect, and lend or sell digital audiobooks, eBooks, music, and videos.

Burleigh not only tells us what OverDrive is up to, but gives his thoughts on the direction of digital books, in general.

Copyright protection utilizing DRM remains a requirement for many publishers, authors, and categories for both fiction and non-fiction eBook materials. On the other end of the spectrum publishers and authors are also experiencing market growth and success by offering DRM-free titles. This session provides an update on new business models and issues involving copyright protection for digital book titles in the channels.

Experts speaking at this session include Ed McCoyd, Attorney and Executive Director for Digital Environmental & Accessibility Affairs, Association of American Publishers; Ronald Schild, MVB Marketing, CEO; and Bob Kohn, RoyaltyShare, Inc., Chairman & CEO.

Many new eReading products are providing larger screens and formats that are providing attractive options for daily news and periodicals for electronic reading. This session provides an update on devices and content and how newspaper, magazine and digital newsstand operators are extending their publications to become interactive, customized, and the business models for advertising that will drive their growth.

This session’s speakers included Jeanniey Mullen, Zinio, Chief Marketing Officer; and Chris Rechtsteiner, Chief Marketing Officer, Page Foundry, Inc.

While Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook, iPhones, and iPad have brought eBook reading to the forefront of the consumer electronics world this year, hundreds of new devices, business models, and supply channels will be competing for their share of the billion dollar book market next year. These will include next generation Smartphones, netbooks, tablets, and other media devices and innovations in screen, battery, and access models. This session presents a few new entries competing for eReading consumers and why they believe their platforms and products will be in the winning column for 2011 and beyond.

Presenters included Theresa Horner, BarnesAndNoble.com, Director, Digital Content Sales; Corey Podolsky, enTourage Systems, Inc., Vice President of Strategic Partnerships; and Peter Balis, John Wiley & Sons, Director, Digital Content Sales.

eBook content authored in the IDPF EPUB standard is not limited to text and images. Publishers and developers are integrating into EPUB titles audio, video, animation, and a growing array of interactive educational content. This session includes updates to the EPUB standard and how readers will interact with eBooks utilized enhancements that take titles far beyond what print could ever offer.

This panel of industry experts includes Garth Conboy, eBook Technologies, Inc., President; and Liza Daly, Threepress Consulting, President. The session was moderated by Peter Brantley, Internet Archive, Director of BookServer Project.

Major American trade publishers have adopted new “Agency Model” terms of sale for their eBooks by retailers and other booksellers. What created this change in the market and how the Agency Model differs from “eBook wholesale terms” is discussed by leading digital distributors and eBook resellers. Learn about the new eCommerce requirements to resell Agency Model eBooks. Hear how eBook resellers and digital book distributors are adapting to this evolving business model.

This session’s speakers were Erica Lazzaro, OverDrive, Inc, General Counsel; Bob LiVolsi, BooksOnBoard, President & CEO; and Andrew Weinstein, Vice President & General Manager, Retail Solutions Ingram Content Group.

eBooks are providing publishers, booksellers, device manufacturers, data carriers and many entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe with innovative ways to connect readers with the materials they seek to read and enjoy. In this podcast episode, listen to a select group of digital book leaders demonstrate the international success eBooks and the IDPF EPUB standard is enjoying on screens large and small, near and far.

This panel of experts included Tyler Ruse, LibreDigital, Sr. Director, Solution Consulting; Daihei Shiohama,Voyager Japan, Head of International Business; and Michael Tamblyn, Kobo, Inc., EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising.

The IDPF Digital Book 2010 opening session included greetings from the leadership of the International Digital Publishing Forum and Chairmen for Digital Book 2010. This introductory session reviewed many notable eBook events of the past year and the impact of the IDPF EPUB standard in the market. Listen in to learn about business, technical, production, and related digital book and content issues from industry leaders.

Speakers included George Kerscher, IDPF President and Secretary General of DAISY Consortium; Garth Conboy, IDPF Chairman and President of eBook Technologies, Inc.; Michael Smith, IDPF, Executive Director; and Steve Potash, Conference Moderator, and CEO of OverDrive.