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Born Digital
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dave Pawson Sep. 11, 2008.

Open Question: How Can Ebooks Improve the Reading Experience?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Dave Pawson Sep. 12, 2008.

 

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Tumblr or Posterous?
I've been experimenting with both services, and am interested in hearing which one you prefer, and more importantly, why?
November 1
Andrew Savikas commented on Pat Jewett's blog post 'Social Networking'
On whose behalf have you been ghostwriting? I'm curious about the types of content, and whether the readers of that content would think differently about it if they knew it was ghostwritten (a spooky topic apropos for Halloween week...).
October 30
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Writing on the Magellan Media blog, Brian O'Leary points out that O'Reilly's Rough Cuts program for updating content isn't particularly novel:
October 25
Andrew Savikas commented on Thad McIlroy's blog post 'The Kindle Dilemma'
Absolutely. I was at the BookServer event on Monday, and we'll be among the first with "live" BookServer catalogs. Hearing Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker at Web 2.0 Summit put some data behind what's happening with the Mobile Web confirmed to me tha...
October 21
Andrew Savikas commented on Thad McIlroy's blog post 'The Kindle Dilemma'
I agree about dedicated readers, though I do think they'll find a niche (albeit one probably too small to support the exploding number of vendors). After all, there are people working on horoscope devices....
October 20
Andrew Savikas replied to Sarah O'Keefe's discussion 'XML centric or print centric?' in the group XML Publishing
We use XSLT to output XSL-FO, which is then processed into PDF for printing. For editing and production work, most of our production staff use Oxygen XML, which uses CSS to display the XML content in a word-processor-style interface. While it's t...
October 18
Andrew Savikas commented on Travis Bryant's blog post 'Barnes & Noble eReader for Mac - My Thoughts'
The Mobile version of Bookworm does a nice job of syncing across devices, though for now you must be connected to read since it's web-based. But adding offline reading using HTML 5 is probably workable.
October 11

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VP, Digital Initiatives
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O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Andrew Savikas is the VP of Digital Initiatives at O'Reilly Media, and is the Program Chair for O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference. He blogs at toc.oreilly.com, and is also a regular contributor to the O'Reilly Radar blog.

Andrew leads the digital publishing and ebook program and strategy for O'Reilly Media, including both print and digital production of all O'Reilly books. Andrew is an advisor to Safari Books Online, O'Reilly's joint venture with Pearson Technology Group. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Book Industry Study Group, and is on advisory boards for Bookshare and the University of Michigan Press.

Andrew holds a B.S. in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston. He speaks frequently on digital publishing and ebooks, and is also the author of "Word Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming your Text".
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The Beta Book, 1940s style

Writing on the Magellan Media blog, Brian O'Leary points out that O'Reilly's Rough Cuts program for updating content isn't particularly novel:


In that way, Rough Cuts is an extension of a 1940 product, the Hammond Self-Revising World Atlas. Edited and printed as war broke out in Europe, the atlas entered a U.S. market at a time when no one knew what future maps mig
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Posted on October 25, 2009 at 10:48am —

Andrew Savikas

Twitter Visualization Contest

Details over on the TOC Blog, and winner gets a free pass to TOC 2010. Liza Daly's not eligible to win, but she's done a great job of showing what's possible:

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Posted on February 14, 2009 at 3:06pm —

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Reading 2.0 Email list posts now mirrored at TOC Community

Peter Brantley continues to maintain his "Reading 2.0" email list, but we're also now re-posting items (but not any responses) here in the Community. Each posting becomes a new forum topic. You can also… Continue

Posted on September 24, 2008 at 12:33pm —

Andrew Savikas

Take this Survey about XML in Publishing

As part of the StartWithXML project, we're looking for respondents to a survey about XML in Publishing. Even if you're not (or not yet) doing much with XML, we want your input.

Posted on September 22, 2008 at 4:08pm —

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Fifteen Pieces of Flair

Spread the word by adding a TOC badge to your own blog or website. They're customizable and easy to share on Facebook, MySpace, etc.

Posted on September 15, 2008 at 5:39pm —

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At 12:11am on September 27, 2008, Thad McIlroy said…
Thanks, Andrew. Glad to be here!

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Thad
At 3:31pm on August 1, 2008, Jon Noring said…
Hi Andrew. Got your message. Jon
 
 
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