Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Digital-Print Convergence

Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London

It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait.

Announcing The Eighth International Conference on the Book

6-8 November 2010
University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
http://booksandpublishing.com/conference-2010/

2009 Book Conference - Plenary Speakers Added

Gobinda Chowdhury, Professor, Information and Knowledge Management Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University Technology Sydney, Australia.

Gobinda Chowdhury is a Professor within the Information and Knowledge Management programme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University Technology Sydney, Australia. After acquiring an honours, a postgraduate and two PhD degrees, he worked as an academic and a researcher in different parts of the world for nearly two decades. Before joining UTS, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK, and prior to that an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. More…

Michael Fraser, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Michael Fraser is a Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His areas of expertise include copyright law, copyright licensing, communications and media law, and digital and content and e-commerce. More…

The Seventh International Conference on the Book

16-18 October 2009
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
www.Book-Conference.com