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Mike Ward
Mike Ward runs Hidden Knowledge, an electronic small press. He’s also built a vast “coffee table book” website about magazine illustration, 1880-1940. He’s been active in the SF/F community for many years, and it was learning how to typeset a zine that got him involved with printing and type software for eight years at Adobe.
In an earlier life he designed precision instrumentation and huge color printing machines. He has two EE/CS degrees and two patents, and is probably the only person here to have published an SF story in Serials Librarian.
Programming for Mike Ward
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| Sat | 10:00 | (A16) | 1 hr |
Web Publishing and the Future of Magazines
What is the future of magazine publishing? How will genre magazines both reach their audience and remain going concerns. We examine a mix of different present models, from the mostly print to the purely web-based, and look at what the future might bring. |
| Sat | 13:00 | (D04) | 1 hr |
The Origins of Fandom and the Very Slow Internet
An examination of the historical evidence for fandoms before SF fandom, and discussing whether the fannish writing voice has now spread all over the world, displacing the stiff old one-to-many voices of commercial mass communication. |
| Sat | 16:00 | (D04) | 1 hr |
Publishing in the Age of e-Books
The publishing industry is changing rapidly as digital books and magazines start to take a noticeable share of the market. This will have important effects on SF/F/H people. How will customers find, buy, read their books and how will publishers provide them? How will writers make money? What role is played by digital rights management? |
| Sat | 17:00 | (Hall 2 Fan Lounge) | 1 hr |
Book Collecting and Reading
While the world predicts books will soon no longer exist, many fans spend a lot of time reading or collecting books. Are these two discernible hobbies, are there books that we should be looking for, or ways of getting literature easily? Are modern firsts an investment or illusion? |
Home Page: http://www.hidden-knowledge.com
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