Fall 2010 Tablet/E-Reader Symposium and DPA Meeting

Thursday, December 9, 2010 - Saturday, December 11, 2010 Ideas

How are tablets changing the game for publishers?

About the DPA | E-Readers & Tablets Buyer's GuideDPA Tablet Research Project | DPA Members | Tablet & E-Reader Symposiums | Emprint | Newsbooks | Opinion

Ken Doctor gave the opening keynote presentation on Dec. 10 titled "Tablets 2011: Which Games Will They Change?" Ken is a leading news industry analyst, a former Knight-Ridder editor and K-R Digital vice president, and the author of "Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get."

Watch highlighted symposium sessions

Watch full recorded symposium sessions

The other session discussion leaders were:

Jared Cocken, Creative Director, The WonderFactory

Bill Tallent, Chief Executive Officer, Mercury Intermedia

Tim Massey, Vice President for Software Engineering, Handmark

Scott Merkle, EVP Business Development, Page Foundry

Colleen Newvine, Market Research Director, The Associated Press

Adam Maksl, Ph.D. Student, Missouri School of Journalism

Topics discussed in the symposium on Dec. 10 included:

A New Modality for Digital Publishing: Follow up to Richard Saul Wurman’s challenge at the SND Workshop in Denver on Sept. 25 that newspapers and magazines need to think in a new way about their presentations of content on the iPad and other tablets.

News Consumption on the iPad: Results of national iPad surveys conducted by RJI, The Associated Press and other organizations. What do they tell us about the ways people are consuming news on the iPad and other tablets?

What Can We Expect to See in 2011? Insights on next generation iPads, competing Android tablets, subscription-based news apps, new production tools and processes, enhanced e-readers, and possible surprises.

Challenging Apple's Hegemony Over Apps: How are publishers dealing with subscription-based apps, censorship of content, sharing of revenue and data, and other issues?

Topics for the DPA meeting on Saturday morning included goals for 2011, follow-up iPad research questions, and a financial review.

For more information contact Roger Fidler, RJI Program Director for Digital Publishing and DPA coordinator, at fidlerr@missouri.edu.

Watch highlighted symposium sessions

Watch recorded Symposium Sessions

Register for this event

$0.00