Filed under: BookCamp Vancouver 2009 | Tags: Amy Logan Homes, Crissy Campbell, Hugh McGuire, John Maxwell, Julie Wilson, Mark Bertils, Monique Trottier, Morgan Cowie, Nick Bouton, RJ Wheaton, Sean Cranbury
Friday October 16th, 2009 was a good day for book publishing in Vancouver.
I’m still fairly exhausted from the whole thing. I’ll be writing a piece on the event in the next week or so once my senses return to normal and the blood returns to my feet.
But I will take this opportunity to thank everyone who came and participated in the event. The volunteers and fellow organizers did an amazing job of executing a near flawless day and one that we should all be proud of.
I’m not even talking about the lunch! Big props to Out to Lunch Catering for making us look good.
And yes, the words ‘Next Year‘ have already been uttered.
Filed under: BookCamp Vancouver 2009 | Tags: BookCamp Vancouver, Booknet Canada, John Maxwell, Masters of Publishing, Monique Trottier, Morgan Cowie, Nick Bouton, Protagonize.com, SFU, Suzanne Norman
HERE IT IS: Details are still coming together but we have laid the foundation for the BookCamp Vancouver 2009 Unconference: Exploring New Ideas in Books, Publishing and The Future of Reading…
Scheduled for Friday October 16th at the SFU Harbour Centre campus in downtown Vancouver from 9am to 5pm.
Fellow organizers are Monique Trottier from SoMisguided and Boxcar Marketing, John Maxwell and Suzanne Norman from the SFU Masters of Publishing program, Nick Bouton from Protagonize.com and Morgan Cowie from BookNet Canada.
Lots of more details to come. Media requests have been rolling. I spoke to Stuart Woods at the Quill and Quire last week. Check out his post about BookCamp Vancouver 2009.
Filed under: BookCamp Toronto, Copyright, Creative Commons | Tags: BookCamp Toronto, Booknet Canada, Morgan Cowie, Scribd, Symtext
I only met Morgan Cowie of BookNet Canada very briefly during the BookCamp Toronto event but it wasn’t hard to recognize her genuine passion and enthusiasm. She participated in the Death to DRM session that I lead in the morning and contributed great ideas to Lisa Charter’s session on the Quagmire of International Rights. Unafraid to speak up and contribute, she may have been the secret star of the event. But more on BookCamp Toronto in my next post.
Now Morgan is writing about the signal flares of interesting innovations in publishing and digital distribution on the BookNet Canada blog. She’s started to write ‘intermittently’ on new publishing business models. In her first two posts she highlights developments in ‘liquid textbooks‘ and the still mysterious to me thing called Scribd.
books on the radio 