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

In What's the Buzz by Hannah Johnson

By Hannah Johnson

TOC logoIn a blog post today, Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media announced that the company will discontinue its Tools of Change for Publishing conferences, the first of which was held in 2007. The reason for this? O’Reilly wrote: “we realized that a conference was no longer the best vehicle for us to contribute to publishing’s forward movement.”

TOC conferences took place in New York City, Frankfurt, Bologna and Buenos Aires, along with mini-TOC gatherings in the United States and Canada. The brand was focused on digital publishing, startups and self-publishing. Read Publishing Perspectives‘ entire coverage of TOC events here.

O’Reilly stressed that his company would continue “pushing forward the reinvention of the publishing industry” even as it bids farewell to the Tools of Change conference and blog:

“TOC was a great ride, and we’ll miss many things about that annual gathering of the future-positive publishing community. Ideas and connections from TOC will continue to inform our work and, we hope, yours. I especially want to thank TOC program chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert for the passion, creativity, and commitment they brought to their work. I wish them well, and am confident that they’ll continue to help shape the publishing industry’s future.”

Read Tim O’Reilly’s farewell blog post here.

About the Author

Hannah Johnson

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Hannah Johnson is the publisher of international book industry magazine Publishing Perspectives, which provides daily information and news about book markets around the world. In addition to building partnerships with international cultural and trade organizations, she works with the Frankfurt Book Fair to organize and support a number of its overseas initiatives. Hannah has also worked as the managing editor for an online media company, The Hooch Life, focused on craft distillers and cocktail experts. Prior to that, she worked as a project manager for the Frankfurt Book Fair’s New York office, managing various business and marketing activities.