PageBreak 2022 Schedule

Reception

All speakers and attendees are invited to join us at a pre-event reception on Wednesday before the event.

Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm, Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Location: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118

Thursday

• 8:00 Coffee

  Get energized for a day of inspiration and learning!

• 8:40 Welcome

  Introduction and logistical information from the organizers.

• 9:00 Keynote: Choosing the Best Medium for Your Message

  As the publishing industry continues to evolve it's important to find a storytelling technique or platform that works best for your goals. This talk will focus on the best medium for your message and will include different case studies Robinson has been involved with including her career in high circulation print publishing, podcasts, her work as a professional storyteller with the Moth Mainstage on professional stages across the country such as Lincoln Center and her work as a visual artist where she uses both print and film to tell stories.

  Trina Michelle Robinson

• 9:20 Amplified Publishing

  Over recent years, digital technologies have fostered the proliferation of new platforms for publishing and broadcasting and the rise of video streaming has further dissolved the boundaries between these two modes. Publishing no longer refers only to words but also images, video and sound and its reach is pervasive and global. These changes have been the focus of Amplified Publishing, a recent R&D project led by Professor Kate Pullinger at Bath Spa University.

  Amy Spencer

• 9:40 Single Source Typesetting

  A discussion about accelerating the production of books via HTML typesetting.

  Nellie McKesson,Dave Cramer,Julie Blanc

• 10:20 Break

  Mingle, grab coffee, and step outside for some fresh air.

• 10:40 Rapid Content Production

  A presentation about radical approaches to accelerating publishing processes.

  Barbara Ruehling

• 11:00 Re-imagining Book Production Workflows

  The traditional production process can be slow and full of bottlenecks, and yet publishers continue to stick with it (often for very valid reasons). In this panel we'll take a closer look at 3 publishers who are approaching their book production differently, why they made the choices they did, the challenges and benefits they've seen from bucking the traditional model, and their hopes for the future. Moderated by long-time traditional production editor John Erik "Buster" Bylander, this panel brings together a small indie publisher (Cassandra Farrin and Sarah Guan of Erewhon Press), a representative from a major publisher (Mateus Teixeira of WW Norton), and the head of documentation for a tech company (Alasdair Allan of Raspberry Pi), to offer a well-rounded perspective of folks who are trying to do things differently.

  Mateus Manço Teixeira,Alasdair Allan,"John Erik ""Buster"" Bylander",Cassandra Farrin,Sarah Guan

• 11:40 Decoding the Library Landscape: the Future of Digital in the Library Market

  Jennifer Rose Halperin

• 12:00 Lunch

  We're doing our best to accommodate all dietary needs. Please let us know if you have a special dietary restriction.

• 1:00 Keynote: Brewster Kahle

  Brewster Kahle

• 1:20 Web Publications and Content Protection

  Books in Browsers with content protection will change the game for content creators of all types and open up completely new business models and use cases - from micro-subscription services to content marketing. PDF and EPUB will never be the same.

  Micah Bowers

• 1:40 Non-Traditional Publishing Profit Models

  Successful publishing businesses can operate profitably by making their own rules that align with their values. Some might pay the same advance to each author, or pay staff the same salary (or limit the compensation of the CEO), or establish ownership or governance models that include staff / authors / customers.

  Johanna Vondeling,Rebekah Borucki,Helena Brantley

• 2:20 Unconference

• 3:20 Break

  Mingle, grab coffee, and step outside for some fresh air.

• 3:40 How publication sector can be more diverse and inclusive w.r.t participation and building tools

  A brief talk on global women participation in Open Source. Opportunities where women and marginalised groups can be made inclusive in digital publishing development. DEWI, an initiative to bridge the gaps in participation and skill building.

  Bhuvana Meenakshi Koteeswaran

• 3:50 Rethinking the Canon: The Rise of Asian American Literary Culture

  Jafreen Uddin will speak on the rise of creative ecosystems designed to develop and support writers and creators of color, specifically from the Asian American diaspora, and to help publish and market their works in the literary marketplace. How are generations of Asian and Asian diasporic storytellers reinventing the literary canon?

  Jafreen Uddin

• 4:10 Indie Bookstores: Doing It in the After Times

  Pete Mulvihill,Michelle Walton

• 4:50 "Here we are again!"

  Founder of the Books in Browsers events of the late 2000s and 2010s, Peter Brantley will wrap up our first day with his perspective of how the landscape has changed, and what publishing innovation looks like in 2022.

  Peter Brantley

• 5:30 Reception

Friday

• 8:00 Coffee

  Get energized for a day of inspiration and learning!

• 8:40 Welcome

  Introduction and logistical information from the organizers.

• 9:00 Keynote: Omo Oaiya

  LIBSENSE: Mobilising African NRENs for Open Publishing Infrastructures
  RENs, (Research and Education Networks) their partnership in AfricaConnect, and the LIBSENSE ambition for the Coalition of Open Access Publishing Infrastructures in Africa will be presented in this talk.

  Omo Oaiya

• 9:20 Preprint Review - revolution or devolution?

  Are Preprint Review communities trying to discard/change/improve the current way of doing things, or are they layering legacy journal processes on top of preprint servers?

  Adam Hyde,John Chodacki

• 9:40 Transforming the landscape of scholarly publishing

  Godwyns' talk will centre on how open reviews and preprinting is changing publishing.

  Godwyns Onwuchekwa

• 10:00 Break

  Mingle, grab coffee, and step outside for some fresh air.

• 10:20 GenZ and Millennials Media Behaviors

  The Immersive Media & Books 2022 project sheds light on the most misunderstood group of book consumers, GenZ and Millennials. Building on data from our widely circulated Immersive Media & Books 2020 study, which revealed that Black and Latinx Millennials/GenZ out-consume the general population, 2022 focuses on the reading, buying, and media consumption behaviors of GenZ and Millennials, who are more racially diverse and tech savvy than the general survey population.

  Kathi Inman Berens,Rachel Noorda

• 10:40 AI Decamp

  AI can draft increasingly long-form works, with meter, wordplay, and internal consistency.
  Join us as we leave our mundane writing desks to explore titles, illustrations, jokes and fiction through the eyes of language transformers and diffusion, illustrated by examples from GPT-3, midjourney, and other models coming out over the summer.

  SJ Klein

• 11:00 How AI Can Make PDF Useful Again

  This roundtable discussion will cover the high-level state of the art and near-term prospects and challenges for AI/ML-based conversion of page-based publications into more usable and useful structured content, motivated by real-world examples and case studies.

  Bill McCoy,Lucy Lu Wang,Zoya Bylinskii,Pamela Berkman

• 11:40 Redefining How We Read On Mobile

  The smartphone isn't the best device to read… or is it? In this session, Niels showcases the R&D that led to novel solutions and discusses the many opportunities left to improve reading on a tiny screen.

  Niels 't Hooft

• 12:00 Lunch

  We're doing our best to accommodate all dietary needs. Please let us know if you have a special dietary restriction.

• 1:00 Keynote: Michael Tamblyn

  The ebook world we live in now isn't the one we imagined in 2010. Interactivity, books in browsers, books as apps, a hundred ebook startups and a hypertext revolution were all on the horizon. Six decisions changed the direction of digital reading to what we have today. Does it have to stay that way? Maybe not...

  Michael Tamblyn

• 1:20 Metadata and Marketing

  Reporting on a metadata study of over 3 million titles, what are the trends, the state of data, common issues? And, what happens when book marketers embrace SEO strategies in retail search algorithms? A look at discovery strategies using BEO and sales strategies using conversion rate optimization tactics.

  Kevin Franco

• 1:40 NFTs Come to Publishing

  NFTs, blockchain, crypto, Web 3 are all the buzz in publishing today, and this late-breaking session will drill down on these often-mystifying technologies.

  Thad McIlroy

• 2:00 Finding the Market for a Booktech Product

  Five years ago Emmanuel Kolade left the technology sector to start Shulph, a booktech company. Book publishing can seem like terra incognita to workers in other industries, and Emmanuel has only recently stopped considering himself an outsider. In this talk, Emmanuel shares what the journey looks like for an outside entrepreneur navigating the world of publishing circa 2022 and building a bookish company from scratch.

  Emmanuel Kolade

• 2:20 Unconference

• 3:20 Break

  Mingle, grab coffee, and step outside for some fresh air.

• 3:40 Current Intellectual Property Issues

  A discussion of the current, highly dynamic publishing ecosystem and assessing where copyright works or fits for that system and where it doesn't.

  Jack Lerner

• 4:00 Legislating Accessibility in 2022

  We'll discuss legislation around accessible publishing (like the Marrakesh treaty), and what kind of effect this has had on both publishers and users of accessible book formats.

  Robert G. Martinengo,Caroline Desrosiers,Jack Lerner

• 4:30 Keynote: Tim O'Reilly

  Topic to be announced.

  Tim O'Reilly