| BookTech East Breaks Attendance Records
The largest book publishing technology event in North America, BookTech East, celebrates its fifth year with record-breaking attendance: 3,700 attendees! For Immediate Release (Philadelphia, PA--APRIL 2001) Nearly 3,700 book publishing professionals from across North America convened in New York City for BookTech East, the only event focused on the latest technologies and techniques in the book and e-book publishing industry. The total attendance surpassed last year's by 21 percent, and was demonstrated by a packed exhibit hall, a crowded keynote address, and standing room only conference rooms. The event, held Feb. 12-14, 2001, at the Hilton New York Hotel & Towers, featured industry experts from leading companies such as Microsoft, Adobe Systems, ContentGuard, The LeHigh Press, The Mazor Corp., Simon & Schuster, World Book, among others. Leading publishers spoke of hot topics like ASP's, e-book formatting, marketing and distribution, and print on-demand. "Professionals and entrepreneurs in the e- and p-spaces of publishing and manufacturing can find BookTech events a cornucopia of useful information, networking, and updates on the dynamically evolving infrastructure of our industry," says Eugene Schwartz, Editor-at-Large, ForeWord magazine, as reported in the weekly ForeWord newsletter. In addition, vendors and suppliers made a number of announcements at BookTech East. For example, Franklin Electronic Publishers released its content conversion developers' kit (CDK) for the Franklin Reader, enabling publishers to produce e-books for the eBookMan multimedia platform based on proprietary SGML; and Indraweb made its debut at BookTech East, unveiling its new technology and service that allows traditional publishers to make S-books of their content. netLibrary, Oce, OverDrive, Questia.com, among others, also released new products/services at the event. "The quality of the sessions, speakers, attendees, and vendors is a testament to our continuing commitment to provide the nation's foremost business event for book publishing professionals," said Gretchen Kirby, Conference Coordinator and editor of BookTech the Magazine. "With so many new technologies available to support the digital publishing process, BookTech provides the unique opportunity for publishers to share their companies strategies for adapting to the changing times." Plans are already underway for BookTech East 2002, Feb. 11-13, 2002, at the Hilton New York Hotel & Towers, and BookTech West 2001, July 30-Aug. 1, San Francisco Marriott. For more information on attending, speaking, exhibiting, sponsoring, or becoming a supporting organization to BookTech East or BookTech West, please contact dmorrishall@napco.com, call 888-627-2630 or visit east.booktechexpo.com or west.booktechexpo.com. BookTech East is produced by BookTech the Magazine (www.booktechmag.com), the only publication to feature news about the technologies and the people that are making a difference in the book publishing community. The conference and expo was supported by organizations such as The Bookbinders Guild of New York, Bookbuilders of Boston, Bookbuilders West, Chicago Book Clinic, GRACoL, Independent Book Publishers of New England, Philadelphia Book Clinic, and Women in Production. Contact: Gretchen Kirby Printed from the Web site of North American Publishing Company. © Copryight ©2010 North American Publishing Company. All Rights Reserved. |