iRex and other presentations from the digital publishers conference

[Bob Russell]

Many of the industry leaders in e-book publishing presented at the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) "Connected & Mobile" conference that was held in NY on May 24, 2006.

For your reading pleasure, the presentation slides are available to you at the IDPF site.

While I haven't yet jumped in to see what's inside them all, I'd have to say that among the more interesting is a presentation (.ppt link) from Willem Endhoven, the New Business Development Manager at iRex, as well as presentations by Elizabeth Mackey (eReader/Motricity) and Bill McCoy (Adobe). If you love e-books, you won't be able to stay away from this info, even if it might have a sales/PR slant.

Here are the presenters with conference slides available for viewing online:

* iRex Technologies:Willem Endhoven, New Business Development Manager
* Mobipocket (An Amazon.com Company): Martin Gorner, Sr SW Architect
* Sony Electronics: Ron Hawkins, Vice President, Portable Reader Systems
* eReader/Notricity: Elizabeth Mackey, Vice President/General Manager
* Audible: Foy Sperring, Executive Vice President
* MediaBay: Brian Nash, SVP Business Development
* OverDrive, Inc.: Angela Arnold, Marketing Manager
* Audiofy: Cartwright Reed, President
* MBS Direct, LLC: Kevin McKiernan, Director of Business Development
* Safari Books Online: Sean Devine, Managing Director
* Vital Source Technologies: Frank Daniels, President & CEO
* WRT Live Ink Reading Technologies: Randall Walker, MD, President
* Adobe Systems Inc.: Bill McCoy, General Manager, ePublishing Business (who gives an "Update on Digital Book Strategies for PDF")
* Career Education Corporation/Blish.com: Paul Gleason, COO New Initiatives Grp
* Harlequin Enterprises: Malle Vallik, Dir., Editorial New Business Development
* Rosetta Solutions: Ted Treanor, President
* Amazon.com: Jeff Steele, Director of Worldwide Publisher Relations for Digital Books
* American Printing House for the Blind: Larry Skutchan, Tech Project Leader, Dept of Educational Research
* eBook Technologies, Inc.: Garth Conboy, President
* Green Point Technology Services, Inc.: Eli Willner, Chief Technology Officer

What an incredible lineup. It must have been quite an event, and it definitely gives great credence to the work of the IDPF. Congratulations to IDPF Executive Director Nick Bogaty for making this event happen and for sharing the presentations with those of us that couldn't make it in person.

[yokos]

Yamp! It will take ages to read some of these obviously interesting files.