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Matt Costello on StoryDrive China and the Future of Storytelling

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Ideas not technology should lead story development in the digital age, says multiplatform creator Matt Costello, a featured speaker at next week’s StoryDrive China conference.

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Big Data and MOOCs Herald Change for Academic Publishers

Dr. Dennis Gannon is Director of Cloud Research Strategy in the Connections team at Microsoft Research.

This year’s US Innovations Seminar of the International Association of STM Publishers focused on the impact of data mining, MOOCs and new author/researcher tools.

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Ether for Authors: Tim O’Reilly Is No Amanda Palmer

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In this week’s web roundup Porter Anderson takes in the furor over the demise of O’Reilly’s TOC and inspiring speeches from last weekend’s Grub Street Muse and Marketplace conference.

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TOC RIP: Fare Thee Well, for Your Work is Done

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Ed Nawotka reflects on the end of the TOC conferences, noting that the technobabble introduced at the events has now become our commonplace diction in publishing.

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O’Reilly Announces Closure of Tools of Change Conference and Blog

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O’Reilly Media will close down its popular digital publishing conference, Tools of Change, but Tim O’Reilly promises to continue innovating the publishing process.

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Ether for Authors: Take Me to Your Data

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Our weekly roundup takes in Cory Doctorow’s conversion to data evangelism, reaction to Patterson’s wake up publishing ads, BEA’s silly cupcake promo and more.

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Ether for Authors: Who Is Pitching Whom?

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This week in author buzz, Porter Anderson digests the Writer’s Digest Conference, takes on chicken littles in the biz, and considers what B&N might do about showrooming.

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Ether for Authors: Rumors of the ISBN’s Demise

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Porter Anderson’s weekly round-up of Web buzz for authors takes on the fate of the ISBN, the idea of the author platform, the prospects for used ebooks, and more.

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Ether for Authors: Framing #FutureFoyles in London

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Porter Anderson’s weekly round-up of publishing buzz offers a first-hand account of last week’s Foyles meetings to imagine the “bookshop of the future,” looks at O’Reilly’s Author (R)Evoution Day and more.

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Attending Digital Book World? Let’s Meet

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If you’re attending Digital Book World and would like to meet to discuss your ongoing publishing projects, please feel free to get in touch with us via email or social media.

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