Presentation, audio and video from the Books 2.0 event in London: the Future of Books & Publishing

Updated: this post now includes Dominic Pride's presentation, embedded below. I also just added the audio version of my presentation (sorry for the rather poor quality), as well as the front-row-shoot with a video of my presentation, below; please note that this is the 'unofficial version', quickly recorded with my Kodak Zi8 - better quality video to follow soon. Clive Rich's presentation is embedded below.

Gerd Leonhard at Future of Books event London March 19

Below is the link to the PDF with my edited presentation from today's Books 2.0 event at Olswang in London. I will add the slideshare embed code and file download options later, today (very slow connection here at the Hilton;), and we will have Clive's and Dominic's slides available as well; videos should follow within a few days, too. This was a really inspiring event, a great and very clued-in audience, beautiful location (Olswang London), and a perfect combination of different view-points by the 3 of us. More comments are available via the Twitter stream and via #books20 hashtag.

Some of the topics I covered included: the toxic assumptions of the music industry and what book publishers could learn from them, the reality of upside-down consumers (digital access first), the ecology of selling access vs selling copies, the Napster-Moment in eBooks - and what to do about (or rather, with) it, the characteristics of 'Reading 2.0', the new definition of books, media as a service and the potentials of 'content in the cloud', the future role of publishers... and much more.  32MB PDF:  files.me.com/gleonhard/824xup  (Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution licensed, as always)

Books 2.0: The Future of Books and Publishing

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Update: Here is Dominic Pride's great presentation from the same event

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Comments

[Peterfroberg]

Great talk,
I really like the way you explain the concepts and its easy to get a lot of value from watching this. While I personally have a hard time getting a lot of value from the times when you post just the slide.

You are probably already trying to do as many videos as possible, yet personally i would really love to see more of your stuff on video. I will certainly be sure to tweet it and talk about it.

[Gerd Leonhard]

thanks Peter - this is very valuable feedback, shall try and make more videos! Cheers Gerd