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Session Descriptions

 

 

Cooperation Makes It Happen?: Publishing and the Cooperative Business Model

 

Ryan Jones (Editor & Owner, Clear Mirror Editorial)

 

"Cooperation ... makes it happen. Cooperation ... working together." —Sesame Street.

 

The cooperative model has been usefully applied to a number of industries, in a number of forms. Often, cooperation has meant cooperative members are also cooperative owners. Would a cooperative model work for publishers? What would be the best models for cooperative publishing? How would anyone make money? The goal of the session is to outline possible models of cooperative publishing and discuss their benefits and challenges.

 

 

Halifax Humanities 101: "In a junk food world we offer a gourmet feast for the mind."

 

Mary Lu Redden, MA (Executive Director, Halifax Humanities 101)

 

Halifax Humanities 101 is a free, university-level education program in the Humanities offered to adults living on low incomes. Twice each week for eight months, a lively group of adult learners gathers to read challenging material ranging from Homer's Odyssey to Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. All of the books are provided to the students free of charge.

 

In five years of operation, Halifax Humanities 101 has had over sixty graduates, many of whom had never experienced university level education. What is remarkable about the program is the level of intense reading and intellectual engagement that people are capable of when offered good teaching. This program takes people with some interest in reading and helps them become adventurous readers, willing to tackle unfamiliar and challenging texts that they might never otherwise have attempted.

 

In this session we will talk about becoming an adventurous reader and the remarkable impact that engagement with good books can have on people living difficult lives.

 

Mary Lu Redden has been the director of Halifax Humanities for the past four years. She is a former Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy of Religion at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. For twelve years she was an instructor in introductory Religious Studies at King's University College, UWO in London, Ontario and an instructor in English grammar and composition at Fanshawe Community College.

 

 

It Takes a Village To Raise An Online Community

 

Kimberly Walsh (Associate Producer, CBC Books: Canada Reads & Book Club)

Eric Rountree (Writer, Blogger, Bookseller)

 

Community building can be a real challenge. Most fail for the same reasons. The most successful ventures are built on distributed power that makes the community an organic thing that members are a part of rather than a burden that they're responsible for maintaining. Regardless of whether an organization is building a new online community or managing an existing one, it's important to remember that people and relationships are critically important, and an online world is about more than just updating a website. This session will look at how to sustain reader engagement, provide opportunities that reward participation and allow for organic growth of the community both online and offline.

 

 

You Can't Always Get What You Want:
Authors, the Internet, and Self-Publishing From a Publisher's Perspective.

 

Nic Boshart (Digital Research Coordinator, ACP)

 

Are you sitting on a brilliant manuscript? Could said novel about your trip to Costa Rica where you had a love-affair with a chemist from Oslo who was also a terrorist alien sell millions of copies if only a publisher had the foresight to dig it out from the slush pile and realize your crossover potential? Do you have like fifty friends on Smashwords who comment all the time on how awesome a writer you are? 

 

Time for some truth bombs. You are never going to make any money writing. 

 

But it's okay! Although self-published authors can be petty and didactic, I no longer hate you; I admire you. I applaud your innovation in embracing digital publishing and your commitment to your craft. So let's talk realities. No holds barred. Let's talk how you can get your book published, why you want to get your book published, and how you can find the best publisher. Or how you can not find a publisher and work it out for yourself. 

 

 

Readers: Connecting with Their Library

 

Sarah Wenning (Regional Manager of Readers’ Services, Halifax Public Libraries)

Bruce Gorman (Director, Information Technology and Collections Management, Halifax Public Libraries)

 

For readers, there is nothing like an ideal reading experience. But how do you re-create that experience again with the next book you choose? Halifax Public Libraries can provide you with ways to make more satisfying reading choices. This session will introduce you to some new library services that readers are talking about. We will show you our new social catalogue, downloadable books and e-books, the library’s blog The Reader, and the Author Stage – library author readings available through our website. Join us for a discussion about libraries engaging readers in new ways.

 

 

ONIX 101

 

Meghan MacDonald (Project Coordinator, BookNet Canada)

Tom Richardson (Bibliographic Manager, BookNet Canada)

 

Most publishers and distributors know that they need good bibliographic data, but what exactly does that mean and why should we care? What is ONIX, and how do you make it work for you? What does rich, complete ONIX do for your books and how can it enhance your list’s visiblity and your marketing strategies? Bring your questions, concerns, and experiences – we’re all trying to figure this out together.

 

Meghan MacDonald is a project coordinator at BookNet Canada (www.booknetcanada.ca) where she spends most of her time working on the BNC BiblioShare and CataList projects.

 

Tom Richardson is BookNet Canada's Bibliographic Manager and is an active participant in ONIX's international organization, sits on the BISG Metadata Committee, is responsible for running Canada's data certification program as well as being a liaison for publishers participating in BNC's new data aggregation service BiblioShare.

 

Follow Meghan on Twitter @meghanmac and Tom @doggrral.

 

 

Social Change: Reading from Below in Contemporary Urban Centres

 

DeNel Rehberg Sedo (MSVU)

 

As part of a larger project that studies community-wide and mass reading programs (beyondthebookproject.org), this session hones in on reading projects that are on the periphery of established and conventional programming. Where North American and English book programming were once supported by municipal or national funding, they are now dependent on monies from corporate coffers, private foundations and public-private partnerships, or in-kind support from publishers. These changes have significant influence on which books are selected for community-wide reading programs, which events are staged, who has access to them, and who participates in them. Meanwhile, smaller grassroots reading projects maintain an impressive freedom that has the potential to bring about the social change that the larger programs wish for. This session will introduce Beyond Words, a book club whose members are street workers in the poorest postal code area of Canada, Get Into Reading in Liverpool, England, and Literature for All of Us from inner city Chicago, as reading programs that need funding to sustain themselves but that try to operate without the strings that are attached and imposed by funding bodies.

 

 

My Publishing Dream House: New Tools Publishers Need and Want

 

Nic Boshart (Digital Research Coordinator, ACP)

 

While many publishers are attempting to tackle digital publishing head-on, too often the task of e-book production (or the entire digital strategy) becomes the job of a single person; the in-house computer geek. And this is a generous label, sometimes the geek is no more than a willing-to-learn intern who's computer experience is a 24-hour Call Of Duty marathon on Xbox Live. 

 

How can publishers create a better in-house environment to foster digital creation with the ultimate goal of following the golden path of enlightenment to a content-first workflow? Whose jobs need to change, and what can publishers do to wrangle cranky authors and contractors to collaborate and create books that can be re-used and redistributed in new and exciting ways?

 

And, most importantly, how the hell are we going to make any money?

 

 

Simplicity & Control: Digital Potential Beyond DRM

 

Sean Cranbury (Host/curator: Books on the Radio. Co-creator: Summer Publishing TV, Advent Book Blog, Real Vancouver Writers' Series, BookCamp Vancouver. A reformed independent bookseller/publisher)

 

Digital technology is hurtling past traditional boundaries in nearly every creative pursuit. It is putting people in touch in amazing and unexpected ways while simultaneously challenging traditional notions of copyright and distribution chain. It is creating an incredible disconnect between the way things have always been done and the way that things will be done in the future. P2P/Bit Torrent technologies are the most efficient, community driven distribution systems ever invented and will be the future platform of choice for creators who want to reach the largest possible audience. Throw in Creative Commons licensing, print on demand technologies, empowered communities of fans, remix advocacy - and you've got an amazing future for creators, fans and publishers. 

 

This session will encourage new ideas for the potential of DRM-free content in terms of promoting discoverability for authors/projects as well as community building in that space.  Please keep in mind that this in not a DRM bashing session this is a beyond DRM session. 

 

Useful Advance Reading for anyone who is interested: Kevin Kelly's Better Than Free, this interview with Big Champagne's Eric Garland, and this article from the Globe and Mail.

 

—An extension and re-imagining of previous talks given on the topic of digital rights management in trade book publishing.  An early variation on this was talk was called DRM vs the Inevitability of Free Content and was presented at SFU Digital Publishing Workshops last summer and at BookCamp Vancouver 2009.

 

 

Digital Graffiti: Beyond the Live Tweet

 

Julie Wilson (BookMadam & Associates)

Meghan MacDonald (Project Coordinator, BookNet Canada)

 

Inspired by the geolocation session at BookCamp Toronto led by Ashleigh Gardner, we'd like to create an online BookCamps corkboard (of sorts) to be launched during BookCamp Halifax 2010, a place where we can "tag" our collective experiences at BookCamps.

 

The gist? We love live tweets as a distribution tool for those who can't be present. We love them even more for their live-to-tweet replay capabilities. But wouldn't it be great to move a step beyond stenographers to perform an en masse gesture that shows how we were here — listening, brainstorming, genuinely engaged — not just here?

 

Our working title is "Digital Graffiti: Beyond the Live Tweet" because the tags won't be echoes of what we've heard so much as our personalized, unique thoughts or calls to action. The natural start would be for each of us to tag ourselves in the form of a url or digital calling card. Beyond that, it is entirely up to us.

 

And there's no need to wait until June 5th. Let's start talking now! First up? What's the best method to achieve this? (Yes, we're assigning homework.) Post your thoughts at BookMadam.com.

 

So keep your fancy pants phones charged, and get ready to leave your mark in Halifax!

 

Julie Wilson is The Madam at Book Madam & Associates (www.bookmadam.com) and literary voyeur behind Seen Reading (www.seenreading.com). She recently published Truly, Madly, Deadly: the Unofficial True Blood Companion under the pen name Becca Wilcott. Follow Julie on Twitter @BookMadam and @SeenReading. Follow Becca @BeccaWilcott.

 

Meghan MacDonald is a project coordinator at BookNet Canada (www.booknetcanada.ca) where she spends most of her time working on the BNC BiblioShare and CataList projects. Follow Meghan on Twitter @meghanmac.

 

 

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