DATE: August 11, 2012
CONTACT: Debbie Gonzales
CHAPTER: Austin, Texas
LOCATION/TIME: 10:00 at BookPeople
Meridith Blank Taylor is one of the founders of Great Hills Publishing, a pioneer in picture book applications for tablet computing. She and her team recognized a significant gap in the market for picture books. To her surprise there were many authors anxious to jump into this fast paced digital realm. As a mother of two avid readers she also want to ensure that children all around the world enjoyed the benefit of these wonderful treasures.
Meridith’s talk will cover the complexities of digitizing books for tablet computing. She will enlighten the audience on the forecasts and revenue potentials of this new medium. She will educate the audience on the legal rights authors have on their works which have already been printed by publishers. She will cover some of the pitfalls and traps of other authors. Participants in this session will walk away with enough information about digitizing their works for tablet computing to be dangerous!