Registration for SSP Annual Meeting, May 28-30, 2008

["Jeff Downing" <jeff.downing@ingenta.com>]

Registration is now open for the Society for Scholarly Publishing 
30th Annual Meeting:

Empires of the Mind: Inventing the Future of Scholarly Publishing

Wednesday, May 28th - Friday, May 30th, 2008

Boston, Massachusetts

Early-bird registration is now open for the 30th Annual Meeting 
of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Register today at the 
reduced rate and guarantee your place at the many exciting and 
provocative sessions at this year's meeting. Keynote speaker, 
author and information architect Alex Wright will explore early 
periods of technological change, in search of clues to the future 
of the information age that may lie hidden in our distant 
cultural past.

Look in-depth at the issues with a stellar line-up of pre-meeting 
seminars, including:

* Web 2.0: Beyond the Hype

* Now What Do We Do? How to Comply with Public Access Mandates

* Enriching Online Journal Articles with Supplementary Materials: 
Opportunities and Challenges

* View from a New Office: Opportunities and Issues Incorporating 
Office 2007 into Scholarly Publishing

This year's lineup of concurrent sessions includes exciting 
debate on today's most relevant issues, such as:

* Green Publishing: What Publishers Can Do for Environmental 
Sustainability

* Going Large with e-Books - Can You Do It All?

* New Content and Business Models in the New Publishing World 
Order

* Second Life and Beyond: Should Publishers Care About Virtual 
Worlds?

* e-Learning: The Next Big Thing for Scholarly Publishers?

* Online Communities: What Does it Take to Make Them Succeed?

* Copyright 2.0: The Agony and the Ecstasy

* Beyond Books & Journals: Delivering Non- Traditional Content 
that Users Want

* Interactive Marketing and Advertising, Working in Global 
Markets

* Dropping Print Without Getting Hurt

Don't miss the Exhibitors' Marketplace and the many formal and 
informal networking opportunities. And, be sure to attend SSP's 
30th Anniversary gala reception at the Prudential Center Skywalk 
Observatory.

Check out the preliminary conference program and sign up today on 
the SSP website: http://www.sspnet.org. Early-bird registration 
fees are: SSP members: $595; Non-members: $695; Librarians, 
students and retirees: $300. Early-bird registration deadline: 
APRIL 30, 2008

Society for Scholarly Publishing; email: info@sspnet.org; phone: 
(303) 422-3914

Jeff Downing
Library Relations Manager
Ingenta, a division of Publishing Technology
Cambridge, MA  02139
www.ingenta.com