{"id":282206,"date":"2011-02-11T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/02\/11\/in-the-age-of-screens-a-prelude\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:28:17","slug":"in-the-age-of-screens-a-prelude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/02\/11\/in-the-age-of-screens-a-prelude\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Age of Screens (A Prelude)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned some time ago, I was invited to participate in this year’s Non-Fiction Conference<\/a> sponsored and organized by the Dutch Foundation for Literature. This year’s focus was on “Quality Non-Fiction in the Digital Era,” so there were a number of presentations about new developments, the future of publishing and reading, etc.<\/p>\n

Unlike some of the other digitally-focused conferences I’ve attended (such as TOC<\/span> Frankfurt), this was less about “what’s possible” and more about “what this means.” Which was refreshing and very interesting. <\/p>\n

The foundation did record all of the talks, and has made most (soon to be all?) available on YouTube.<\/a> (I personally love all the stills . . . We all look a bit over-enthused with our hand gestures and what not.)<\/p>\n

All of the speeches were great, and to make this even easier, here are links and quick summaries to the speeches that are available:<\/p>\n

Sara Lloyd<\/a> of Pan Macmillan gave a great overview of where we are in terms of ebooks and the digital market.<\/p>\n

Peter Collinridge<\/a> talked about Enhanced Editions<\/a> and the need to connect with your audience. <\/p>\n

Richard Nash’s speech isn’t online (yet), but he talked about the coming Age of Abundance and how economic theory provides a basis for arguing that this abundance will force prices to zero.<\/p>\n

Jos de Mul<\/a> talked about the impact of technology on human imagination from a philosophical perspective.<\/p>\n

Harry Blom’s speech isn’t up yet either, but he talked about Springer and publishing edatabase versions of journals.<\/p>\n

Marcus Chown<\/a> discussed The Solar System<\/a> his book\/iPad app.<\/p>\n

Henry Volans<\/a> from Faber and Faber talked about this as well, but from a publisher’s perspective.<\/p>\n

Ramy Habeeb<\/a> gave the funniest, most entertaining speech (Ramy’s a born public speaker of the best variety) about publishing in Arabic and his company Kotoarabia.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicky Harman<\/a> discussed the role of translators in this digital age.<\/p>\n

Finally, I talked about<\/a> reading and discovery in the Age of Screens. But I’ll talk more about that in a separate post . . . For now, I just want to encourage you to check out some of these videos. I think you’ll find them very interesting and enjoyable. (And we were all limited to 10 minutes, so they’re short.)<\/p>\n

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