Break the Spine

Welcome to the Revolution! I'm Monique Trottier of SoMisguided.com and I'm tired of the book publishing industry not being able to en masse figure out how to create a free economy for books. By free, I mean libre not gratis. This is not about ebooks or giving away books for free. This is about how do we find a way for creators to make money creating, how do we manage a sustainable industry, how do we get books into the hands of readers. My definition of book can be different from yours. This is not a war of formats. This is a revolution (a full turn of the wheel) on how we think about the creation, editing, production, distribution and promotion of book content.

Register for BookCamp Vancouver

Are you ready to go to camp?

Registration for BookCamp Vancouver 2009 Unconference: Exploring New Ideas in Books, Publishing and the Future of Reading is now open.

The free unconference will be taking place on Friday October 16th at Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver.

Sign up now. Tickets are going fast!

BookCamp Vancouver is a user-generated unconference that brings print publishers, educators, community builders and the tech community together - for free! BookCamp Vancouver is an opportunity to explore the present and future of books and book-like technologies. It’s open to anyone interested in the publishing industry and the potential dynamics of the reader/creator/publisher relationship.

Join us for a day of talking and doing – of rolling up the proverbial shirt sleeves and tinkering with the publishing mechanism. We’re inviting authors, typographers, designers, printers, technologists, booksellers, literary agents, publishers and geeks of every stripe to come along and consider if and how technology can transform and perhaps improve on The Book.

We’re encouraging BookCampers to suggest topics of discussion for the day and to suggest sessions that they would like to lead.

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Web Content Management Workshop

Need a strategy for managing all of your digital content?

Join us for an informative workshop on web content management, put on by
SFU Summer Publishing Workshops.

The workshop runs August 4 - 6 at SFU Harbourcentre. The cost for all three days is $500.

From the SFU Summer Publishing Workshop website:
“We’ll introduce you to web content management tools and what they offer. We’ll talk about book content, magazine copy, marketing messages, images and other media, and of course the web itself and the audience connections it makes possible. We’ll cover software and techniques; when it’s appropriate to manage content yourself and when it’s appropriate to contract an external Digital Asset Manager. Most importantly, we’ll focus on how to do all of this without breaking the bank.”

Panelists include Haig Armen, creative director of LiFT Studios; Geoff D’Auria site manager for The Tyee; Kim Elliott publisher of rabble.ca; Joy Gugeler publisher and editor-in-chief of orato.com; Brian Lamb manager of emerging technologies and digital content with the office of learning technology at UBC; Boris Mann entrepreneur and web strategist; Monique Trottier of Boxcar Marketing; and John Maxwell assistant professor in the Master of Publishing Program at SFU.

For full details go to the Web Content Management workshop page.

Download the PDF registration form here.

Going to BookCamp

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This Saturday in Toronto: A conversation about the future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.

Don’t worry Vancouver publishing folk. There are a couple of us going and we’ll come back and share the knowledge.