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s pE A K Er B Io G r A pH I Es consuming more than 200 RSS feeds and one newspaper daily, and more than a dozen print and digital magazines each month. A published author and Pushcart nominee, he’s been writing about new media for more than a decade. He’s the Marketing Director and chief blogger for Nxtbook Media, a leading digital publisher with more than one million readers every month. He writes both the Nxtblog (http://nxtbook.com/blog/, which appears on Junta 42’s list of the Top Content Marketing blogs, and Sweet Victory (http://certainintelligence.blogspot.com/), a blog about diabetes and distance running. MArCuS GrIMM is an admitted content junkie, BruCE JACoBSEN is Executive Vice President of Bridgeport National Bindery Inc. (Agawam, Mass.). With the company since 1978, he oversaw the changes that transformed Bridgeport National bindery from a company doing exclusively library binding to a multifaceted on-demand digital book manufacturer. MICHAEl GuzzI directs the team responsible for develop- ing and supporting Merriam-Webster’s digital products and services, including several popular Web sites built around dictionary search (Merriam-Webster Online, http://www.Merriam-Webster. com). He determines the technical direction necessary to meet the company’s short- and long-term online goals, coordinates with editors to maintain efficient content flow from print to online, and works with sales and marketing to maximize Web traffic and online revenue. After working in print publishing, teaching college writing classes, and acquiring a masters degree in English, Guzzi started as an editor at Merriam-Webster in 1994 and became its Webmaster in 1998. Since then he has managed several site launches and redesigns, including two subscription sites, and continues to work on developing and implementing the company’s SEO plan and other traffic-driving initiatives. the book and magazine business—printing and publishing. Currently, he is Director of Manufacturing for Summit Business Media. He has written articles on print and vendor management for Book Business magazine and has been a past panelist at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo. In 2003, Steve was inducted into the PrintMedia Hall of Fame. and editorial director for the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) publications and interactive media, including Realtor Magazine, the national association’s membership magazine with a circulation of more than 1.2 million, and Realtor Magazine Interactive, the magazine’s Web site, which receives more than 1 million page views per month. She worked closely with the magazine’s publisher to engineer a major financial turnaround of the magazine several years ago, taking REALTOR Magazine from a product that cost NAR several million dollars a year to produce to one that returned a significant profit. STEvE JoHNSToN has worked on both sides of PAMElA GEurDS KABATI is vice president MATT HArrIS is VP of Publisher Relations for VitalSource AAroN KAHloW serves Chairman and Founder of the Online Technologies Inc. He joined VitalSource, an Ingram Digital Group company, in March 2000. Harris came to VitalSource from Fence Creek Publishing LLC, where he was Co-Founder and Publisher. Fence Creek specializes in publishing books and material for medical education. Prior to Fence Creek, Harris had been Senior Medical Editor at W.B. Saunders. He has received a B.A. in History from Gettysburg College, and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University. Marketing Summit as well as Managing Partner of BusinessOnLine, a leader in the search and usability space. Having delivered over 170 seminars nationwide and frequently quoted in such publications as Industry Week, BtoBOnline and BusinessWeek, Kahlow is a recognized authority on the subjects of Web site usability, search engine optimization, Web analytics and overall Web strategy. Most recently, Kahlow was named as one of the “Top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40” by Metropolitan Magazine. publishing experience for eight major publishing corporations. She was the Director of Contracts at Warner Books/Little Brown and Co., Director of Contracts at Macmillan Publishing Co. and Contracts Director at Prentice Hall/Simon and Schuster. Kardys has worked at Harcourt Brace Javanovich, Doubleday, Scholastic, Lippincott & Crowell, Publishers and St. Martin’s Press in editorial, subsidiary rights and production. organizing and hosting programs that address the business needs of authors of all backgrounds. He is host and moderator for an ongoing series of writing conferences called, “Beyond the Book,” which are frequently broadcast nationally on C-SPAN’s BookTV and in Canada on BookTelevision. He also serves as Director, Author Relations for Copyright Clearance Center. An award-winning journalist and author of “Massachusetts 101,” he has reported on education, business, travel, culture and technology for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Independent of London, and many other leading publications, as well as for WBUR-FM (Boston), National Public Radio and WGBHTV (Boston). | | STEvE HENCK is Vice President of Production of Commercial Communications Inc. (CCI), a leader in intelligent production and document lifecycle management solutions. CCI’s mix of digital and traditional offset equipment allows them to cost-effectively produce books in quantities of 1 to 500,000. Having been with the company for over 20 years, Henck oversees all aspects of manufacturing for CCI’s production facilities in Hartland, Wis. and Tempe, Ariz. Under his direction, CCI has been a beta-test site since 2004 for Océ’s VarioStream 9000 product line. CCI’s VarioStream equipment was upgraded to 3-over-3 colors in 2007, and the company is scheduled to be the first installation site in the world for the 4-color VarioStream 9240 in 2008. JAN l. KArDYS has over 20 years’ diversified CHrISToPHEr KENNEAllY is responsible for CHrISToPHEr A. HErrING has spent his entire career in the printing, publishing and digital media industries. He has worked for Forbes Inc., Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., and now NBC Universal, to improve and streamline the process and systems used by writers, editors, creative artists, and producers to create, manage and publish content in any medium. http://nxtbook.com/blog/ http://certainintelligence.blogspot.com/

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Publishing Business Conference & Expo Daily Highlights Welcome Letter Show Contacts Sponsors Supporting Organizations Conference Floor Plan Conference At-A-Glance Monday Conference Program IDEAlliance’s Virtual Proofing Summit Tuesday Conference Program Digital Magazine Symposium INTERQUEST’s Digital Book Printing Forum Wednesday Conference Program Exhibitor Quick List (Alphabetically) Exhibitor Quick List (By Booth #) Exhibitor Floor Plan Exhibitor Profiles Speakers’ Biographies Save the Date for 2009 Exhibitor Products & Services

2008 Show Guide - Publishing Business Conference & Expo

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