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(Authorlink February 14-21 Edition): Today’s publishers face a gaping landscape of technological change, from everywhere they turn-- in writing and development, production, distribution and consumption, in bean counting and legal departments. These transformations are no longer theoretical. They’re well past a tipping point, and are shaping every aspect of the publishing industry of tomorrow.

In New York this week, at the second annual O’Reilly Tools for Change Conference, publishers have been gathering the tools they need to understand, embrace, and prosper from the tectonic shifts affecting their industry.

On the conference floor, we’ve been talking with innovators in the exciting and passionate future for books. Listen in to some of the people we have spotted as key innovators in the unstoppable movement toward the books of tomorrow, and consider how these transformations may affect you as an industry profession.

 
Visit Authorlink to hear interviews from the floor of O'Reilly Tools of Change -

• Digital Strategy and Action - Brent Lewis - Harlequin Enterprises
• How Open Does "Open" Need to Be, in the Universe of Free? - Michael Jensen - The National Academies
• Digital Publishing Beyond eBooks - Bill McCoy - Adobe Systems
• Collaborative Content - Joel Bush - Near-Time
• SEO for Book Publishers: Beyond Book Search - Jamie Low - SearchEngineMarketing.com