Digital
Digital Technologies and Independent Publishing
Day one: 9th June
9.30- 10am Arrivals and coffee/tea
10- 10.15am Welcome and Introduction
10.15- 11.45am Digital Authors, Digital Publishers, Digital Readers
Chair: Chris Meade, if:Book
• Sara Sheridan, Author of Secret of the Sands and I’m Me
• Forbes Gibb, University of Strathclyde, ‘How do I work this?’
• Adriaan van der Weel, University of Leiden, ‘Reading in the Digital Age’
11.45am-12pm Coffee/Tea
12-1pm Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age
• William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition, ‘Our Digital Memory Tomorrow’
• Samantha Rayner, Anglia Ruskin University, ‘Preserving Publishing: Paratextual Problems of the Digital Age’
1-2pm Lunch
2-3.45pm Digital Publishing Case Studies
Chair: Padmini Ray Murray, Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication
• Cate Cannon, Canongate
• Adrian Searle, Freight
• Tobias Steed, Can of Worms
• Neal Hoskins, Winged Chariot
3.45-4pm Coffee/Tea
4-5pm: Breakout Session: Independent Publishing Digital
Dilemmas
5.30 Keynote Lecture (Room M408, James Weir Building)
Chair: Padmini Ray Murray and Claire Squires, Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication
Chris Meade, Institute for the Future of the Book: ‘The Amplified Author in the Unlibrary’
Day two: 10th June
9.45-10am Arrivals and Coffee/Tea
10-11.30am Devicing the Digital
Chair: Samantha Rayner, Anglia Ruskin University
• Padmini Ray Murray, University of Stirling, ‘Game-changing: what publishers can learn from the other creative industries’
• Paul Squires, MD, Perini, ‘Magazines: the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?’
• Chris Gibson, University of Strathclyde, ‘Dirt-e-Books’
11.30-11.45am Coffee/Tea
11.45am-12.45pm Digital Switchovers
Chair: Adriaan van der Weel, University of Leiden
• Helena Markou, Publishing Innovation Consultation, ‘Developing a Custom Textbook Publishing Service at Blackwell Retail’
• David McMenemy, University of Strathclyde, ‘Public Libraries, Digital Services, and Readers’
• Iain Stevenson, UCL, ‘Copyright and IP in the Digital Age’
12.45-1.30pm Lunch
1.30-2.30pm Archiving the Publisher
Chair: Gail Low, University of Dundee
• Alan Bell, University of Dundee
• Andrew Nash, University of Reading
2.30-2.45pm Coffee/Tea
2.45-4pm Closing Panel: Digital Conclusions, Digital Beginnings
Chair: Claire Squires, Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication
• Eleanor Logan, ChapterTwenty
• Chris Meade, Institute for the Future of the Book
• Simon Meek, Tern Digital/The Story Mechanics