Adam Engst

Adam Engst

TidBITS Publishing Inc.

Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the longest-running Internet-based newsletters, and of the Take Control electronic book series. He has authored many best-selling technical books and numerous magazine articles. His innovations include the creation of the first advertising program to support an Internet publication in 1992 and the first flat-rate accounts for graphical Internet access in 1993. He regularly ranks among the top five most influential people in the Macintosh industry and was named one of MacDirectory’s top ten visionaries. He has been turned into an action figure.

Sessions

10:45am Monday, 02/11/2008
The Book as Beta
Digital Strategy, General Broadway South
Dan Gillmor (Center for Citizen Media), Adam Engst (TidBITS Publishing Inc.), John J. Chodacki (Safari Books Online )
In the Digital Age, we should think increasingly of book production in the same context as software: always in beta, being constantly iterated and improved with new information and corrections. Read more.
The Role of DRM in the eBook World
Adam Engst (TidBITS Publishing Inc.)
This panel discussion will bring together a number of speakers who take different approaches to the DRM question, ranging from those who apply no DRM to those who feel it is essential.
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