Rick, were you thinking about including “reading systems” and “reading” in a very broad way, so for example could also include VitalSource re: data about activity on your learning platform, and who knows maybe a digital magazine person about activity on their platform, etc.? Because if so I would +1 the idea.
But I am cautious about doing sessions that might be fantastic at DBW or IDPF or even ebookcraft but are too narrowly “ebook” for the Publishing@W3C Summit event. Because if our program smells like an ebook conference it will be an ebook conference … and I believe we can and should be more than that. OTOH if we are too broad we could be uninteresting to anyone, and the base of the IDPF community is ebooks, so this is going to be a delicate balancing act.
Anyway I’d love to see you and Micah on stage together… 😉
--Bill
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Subject: Re: late incoming: Publishing@W3C Summit Theme
At the risk of starting a separate thread, and with apologies for coming into this late (been on vacation), reading thru the other threads this morning and seeing the comment about “Micah [having] huge amounts of reading data” sparked an idea….
What about a session (and I’m acknowledging that it would take some work to coordinate) where as many reading systems as possible all share some top, to middle level of data about the state of the activity on their platforms, to give a sense of the velocity, vibrancy, and verve that exists?
-Rick