First Amazon, then Google, and now a number of other players have launched initiatives to digitise print publications for Web indexing (and, in some cases, potential future sales models).

While publishers have welcomed the added visibility which search-engine indexing brings, they have been concerned both at those initiatives which do not involve seeking rightsholder permission to digitise in-copyright works, and at the implications of third-party sales of all or part of their works.

In this ALPSP briefing, we shall hear at first-hand from representatives of some of the most significant of these initiatives. This is an opportunity to hear what they are really doing, to evaluate the potential pros and cons for your publishing business, and to ask questions.

Chair: Geoffrey Bilder, Scholarly Information Strategies

Programme

14.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

14.30 Introduction: what’s happening and what does it mean for publishers?

14.45 Google Book Search
JL Needham, Strategic Partner Development Manager, Google UK

15.05 Yahoo! and the Open Content Alliance
speaker to be confirmed

15.25 Microsoft and the British Library
Thiru Thirumalai-Anandanpillai, Search Product Planning, MSN

15.45 Amazon
Genevieve Kunst, Digital Content Manager, Amazon.co.uk

16.05 TEA/COFFEE

16.25 Questions and discussion

17.00 Summing-up and close

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Registration Fees (excl VAT):
ALPSP Member £70.00; Academic £80.00; SSP/SFEP individual Member £85.00; Non Member £105.00