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Author Margaret Atwood will join digital developers from the likes of Google and Barnes & Noble as speakers at the next Tools of Change conference, which will take place in New York from 14th to 16th February.
This year's conference will focus on Publishing Without Boundaries and will be held at the Sheraton New Hotel & Towers. TOC claims the conference will "integrate the visionary with the proven and practical".
Atwood, who is currently acting c.e.o. of Syngrafii, the company behind the remote signing device the LongPen, is a key note speaker at the conference along with Ben Huh, chief Cheezburger of I Can Haz Cheezburger, and Gus Balbontin, global innovation manager at Lonely Planet.
The first day of the conference will see seminars including HTML5: A Workshop for Publishers held by Marcin Wichary, senior user designer and developer at Google and Building a Successful Direct Channel with Allen Noren, vice president of online at O'Reilly Media.
On the Tuesday scheduled seminars include E-textbooks in Higher Education: Practical Findings to Guide the Industry, with a talk by Tracey Weber, executive vice president for textbooks & digital education at Barnes & Noble.
The final day will have a seminar held by Steve Kotrch, Simon & Schuster's director of publishing technology, titled Toward An All-digital Workflow as well as other seminars such as Literary Reviewing in the Digital Age and Improving Your Publishing Metadata and Delivery.