Garth Conboy

eBook Technologies, Inc.

Garth most recently served as the General Manager and Vice President Software Engineering for the Gemstar eBook Group. In this position he was responsible for the operation of the division: platform and server engineering, quality assurance, content acquisition, content operations, content engineering, and customer support.

Garth led the Platform, Content Tools and Content Engineering groups for the Gemstar eBook Group. Garth is inventor or co-inventor of seven issued eBook patents; technologies include: cryptography and secure content distribution, eBook UI, resource/database dynamic conversion for cross-platform applications, and optimal paginated document presentation. Garth previously held the position of Vice President of Software Engineering at SoftBook Press.

Prior to the eBook effort, Garth founded Pacer Software and served as its CEO guiding it to a successful acquisition. Following the acquisition of Pacer Garth served as Engineering Director for NetManage, a leading supplier of networking and connectivity solutions.

Sessions

1:40pm - 2:25pm Monday, 02/11/2008
Making Digital Publishing Accessible to Persons Who are Blind and Print Disabled
Digital Strategy, General, Open Access Shubert/Uris
George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Arnie Zucker (NDS Technologies Ltd.), Ivan Lagacé (HumanWare), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)
Technology has made it possible for publishers to profitably expand to include persons who are blind and print disabled. The growing legal demands to serve this population makes this a timely issue. Read more.
2:00pm - 2:45pm Tuesday, 02/12/2008
Are New Devices Breathing New Life into e-Books?
Broadway South
Tonya Engst (TidBITS Publishing Inc.), Ben Vershbow (Institute for the Future of the Book), Mike Shatzkin (The Idea Logical Company), David Rothman (Publishers Weekly / TeleRead.org), Steven Levy (Newsweek), Garth Conboy (eBook Technologies, Inc.)
Although Arthur Andersen famously predicted a billion-dollar e-Book market would be here by now, 2007 was a big year for the e-Book faithful, with the launch of Amazon's Kindle, the first experiments with delivery of digital books on revolutionary new mobile devices like the iPhone and the $100-laptop Read more.
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