Making Information Pay 2010
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Time: 8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET
Location: McGraw-Hill Auditorium, NYC

URL: http://www.bisg.org/mip

Publishing Business Conference and Expo
Date: March 8–10, 2010
Location: Marriott Marquis Times Square, NYC
URL: http://publishingbusiness.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=1af1c1c1-b104-4d22-9da1-3f27bb48a3e9

BISG & NISO at ALA Annual Conference
Date: June 25, 2010
Time: 12:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET
Location: American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC
URL: http://www.bisg.org/events-0-511-bisg-niso-at-ala-annual-conference-2010.php

If you live in the New York City Area - I urge you to go to the Hyatt Regency Grand Ballroom at Grand Central Station on Friday Feb. 12th.

Every dollar raised will be donated to UNICEF, directly helping rescue and relief efforts in Haiti.
And we get to enjoy masssage,yoga, acupuncture and a 75% off sample sale of beauty products.

Friday, February 12th, 2010
Noon - 8pm

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

Personally I liked the name Islate better but who am I to quibble with Microsoft.
iBooks
Here’s the books component:

“The iBooks app is a great, new way to read and buy books. Just download the app for free from the App Store, and you’ll be able to buy everything from classics to bestsellers from the built-in iBookstore. Once you’ve bought a book, it’s displayed on your Bookshelf. To read it, all you have to do is tap on it and it opens up. The high-resolution, LED-backlit screen displays everything in sharp, rich, color, so it’s very easy to read, even in low light.”
I’d love to know what people think of it.

Things are so intense in the world today that I decided to do something fun. I created a video at Animoto It was easy. I uploaded my pictures from my vacation with my dog Izzy and my cousin and her dog in Vermont and then I uploaded a song. I could not upload from my Itunes library as you can only upload MP3’s so I used their collection. I will keep working on it.
But in the meantime it was incredibly easy. They give you a free 30 second video and then charge for anything beyond that. I can start embedding this in promotions and marketing plans now. Very cool, Animoto!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Join us for the book premiere of Loukoumi’s Good Deeds, with special guest readers:  John Aniston, Gloria Gaynor, Alexis Christoforous, Frank Dicopoulos, Constantine Maroulis, and author Nick Katsoris.

This event takes place Saturday, April 4th, 11am at the Barnes & Noble at 1972 Broadway in NYC.  $2 from the sale of each book will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Print on demand is now customized for individual’s needs. The idea behind printing for a specific demand is that you reduce overhead costs, get rid of the overstock blues, and gain the ability to narrow your market focus with minimal risk. A new venture called Offbeat Guides is now narrowing the scope of print on demand even further down to the individual.

Technorati founder Dave Sifry is launching Offbeat Guides as source for customized on-the-fly travel guides. These guides are generated from their Internet data sources once the customer has entered their personal travel preferences. The customized travel book is then delivered via PDF instantly or by express mail. Enter in your travel dates, destination, and preferences for information on everything from museums, concerts, to the great outdoors. Your travel guide is then printed on demand with the weather conditions, exchange rates, event preferences, and more, for the duration of your visit.

These print on demand travel guides seem to be perfectly suited for the needs of frequent business travelers and discerning tourists alike. The cost for this personalized trip guides is $25 for the printed version, and $10 for the PDF to be printed at home, with a full refund for unsatisfied customers. Could this technology be the future of the printing press?

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