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Sebastopol, CA, October 6, 2011—If you care about the future of publishing, O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing Conference can show you where it's headed February 13-15, 2012, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert have created a program that brings together cutting-edge speakers, topics pushing the boundaries of how we define publishing, and unique insight into what lies ahead as publishing transitions into its next phase. Registration has just opened for the event, which sells out year after year.

Organized into tracks of Manage, Make, and Market, the current list of featured speakers includes:

• David Pogue (New York Times)
• Christophe Maire (txtr)
• Joe Karaganis (Social Science Research Council)
• Steve Rubel (Edelman Digital)
• Timothy Carmody (Wired)
• Alan Jacobs (Wheaton College)
• Jonathan Reichental (O'Reilly Media)
• Bob Young (Lulu.com)
• Joshua Tallent (eBook Architects)
• Kristen McLean (Bookigee)
• Anne-Marie Concepcion (Seneca Design & Training, Inc.)
• Peter Collingridge (Enhanced Editions)
• Judith Curr (Atria Books)

TOC reaches outside traditional industry boundaries to find people and companies from around the world who are doing stuff that matters. Not only does TOC cover what's working now, but we also look ahead to what will work as publishing transitions to the next phase.

Early registration discounts apply until November 10.

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Free, Live Webcast: Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup #2 Presented by: Peter Meyers Thursday, November 10, 2011, 10am PT Back by popular demand, in a second look at Digital Bookmaking Tools, author and book futurist Pete Meyers explores the existing options for creating digital books. Bring your questions and join in the discussion about what's best, what's easiest to use, and what's worth putting in your book-building toolkit. Register now: http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/1997 For more publishing-related webcasts, see: http://oreilly.com/webcasts/toc/index.html

The Publishing Pie: An Author's View Margaret Atwood, Author To view all videos from TOC 2011, see: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=16E261CDB64A51AF

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