W3C [PBG] Americas/Europe Meeting Agenda

Hello Publishing Business Group members,

Please find below the agenda for the next PBG call for Americas/Europe on Tuesday February 15th,  to be held at [0] via the Zoom link in the meeting invite.

W3C IRC: http://irc.w3.org/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Firc.w3.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7CLAUDRAIN%40hachette-livre.fr%7Cf1f4b36643b342c072ff08d79c8273be%7Cf881a2c50a89483181b1c7846c49594d%7C0%7C0%7C637149956414432943&sdata=fRlwrrNqKLfWvIy6pt4d2F379ZmHqDYjXD4yiFM1dp0%3D&reserved=0>  (IRC channel #pbg).


Agenda

  *   Follow-up to PBG Winter Conference Day
     *   Was there anything surprising you heard or want to discuss relative to the Comics/Manga/Graphic Novel marketplace discussions in Europe, the US or Japan? Are there particular concerns about getting to good accessibility for Fixed Layout?

  *   2022 Digital Publishing Challenges – We’d like to open with talking about any of the challenges with digital publishing that you see ahead in 2022. Where are your concerns? What are your priorities?
     *   Are you worried about the increasing trends in digital piracy?
     *   Are you working to update the quality or accessibility of your backlist?
     *   Are you sorting out needs for making content more accessible?
     *   Are you working to determine how to deliver content to address the changing reading environments for some content and in some systems?
     *   Are you wondering about how NFTs and blockchain technology plays into the publishing marketplace?
     *   What else are you seeing as concerns and priorities?

  *   Date and topic discussions
     *   Conference Days
·         We are hoping to focus the next one on educational publishing. Would that be better in April or May?
·         What other topics should we plan for future Conference Days?

     *   TPAC in Vancouver in Sept.
·         Will people want to be in person?


Reminder: Collecting issues and use cases
For FXL + Reflow use cases: https://github.com/w3c/publ-bg/issues<https://github.com/w3c/publ-bg/issues>
For Reading System bugs: https://github.com/w3c/epub-rs-bugs<https://github.com/w3c/epub-rs-bugs>

 PBG meetings upcoming:

  *   Americas/Asia: 03/01/2022 7pm EST/9am JST
  *   Americas/Europe: 03/15/2022 EST/6pm CET
  *   Americas/Asia: 03/29/2022 7pm EST/9am JST
  *   Our Spring 2022 Conference Day will be in April or May and focused on Education



On behalf of PBG co-chairs,
Liisa McCloy-Kelley, Daihei Shiohama and Cristina Mussinelli

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