1. Welcome to
Making Information Pay 2010
OPENING REMARKS
May 6, 2010

2. RIT
Near Coat Check
1221 Conference
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Show me the data
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3. Thank you!
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4. Gold Sponsors
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5. © 2010, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

6. Creating a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both physical and digital products.
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7. Creating a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both physical and digital products.
BISG is committed to the development of effective industry- wide standards, best practices, research and events that enhance relationships between trading partners.
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8. Improving the ratio of signal- to-noise in the book industry
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9. The way we work
“For too long business leaders have relied on their intuition or their ‘golden gut’ to make decisions. For too long, important calls have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision maker.” ~Tom Davenport
Data and analysis drives better decisions and improved performance
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© Harvard Business School Press

10. Linear, linked, transparent, navigable, one dimensional
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The supply chain
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11. To become thebook industry leadership organization in a time of great transformationby helping to build and support a new industry networkenabling new opportunities for profitable growth.
BISG’s
Vision Statement
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12. Illustration taken from:
The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension
by Clifford A. Pickover, Sterling Publishing
The puzzle we’re now solving…
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13. © Scanbuy, Inc
Consumer empowerment
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14. •Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading
•Product data certification
•Developing a specification for rights expression
•Sales reporting of digital and print products
•Best practices for employing identifiers for e-books
•Understanding consumer-empowered symbology
•Best practices for SEO, SEM
•Best practices for tagging and indexing book content
•Developing frameworks for managing content as data
•Understanding Print on Demand
•Best practices for assigning an on sale date
And that’s just for starters…
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Working out the puzzle

15. Now, on with the show!
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