Oh Most Large and Majestic Emacs, please be in -*- outline -*- mode!

"I'm just going to throw a bunch of ideas at you.  You're going to
leave here dissatisfied, which is good, because dissatisfied how I
feel when I look at how people actually *want* to interact with
information (and with each other) versus how today's publishing models
actually *let* them interact."

* get a supply of nickels ready, in case anyone wants their money back

* get audience demographics first

  publishers
  distribution companies?
  bookstores
  publicists
  kinkos?  the UPS store? :-)
  authors

* Note how the book is not dead.
  If people want books, the market will still make them happen.
  How many of you have ever read an entire book on a computer, outside
  of a professional publishing context?

* producingoss example

  Point to producingoss as an example of what can happen when readers
  get involved!  Note how it's not an exception.  Walk through how it
  went, show the screens.  IOW:

  Tell stories, then go to main point, then story.

     1. producingoss, svnbook, etc
     ...
     N. customer at Kinko's scenario from promise/

* Note how the key question about the Kindle is whether it enables this
  get kindle facts

* VERY quick history of copyright from technological/printing perspective
  Familiarize them with where it comes from, why it was necessary.
  Point out that printing no longer involves compositors!

* "Web2Summit: The Future of Printing"
  http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/web2summit_the_1.html

* What about bookstores?  Show how they survive and even flourish.

* Note significance of Eldred.

* Micah's Murakami translation example
  of how PoD can offer something that traditional publishing cannot:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind-Up_Bird_Chronicle#Missing_chapters
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind-Up_Bird_Chronicle#Missing_chapters

* NYT every day until the presentation.  And see:
  http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/toc_conference_1.html

* print-on-demand facts:

  Manhattan retail real-estate goes for appx $300 sq/ft (up to $1000)

  18 sq ft for a machine, estimated

  "As an idea, on demand book printing is nothing new, and we even
   spotted that Bookmachine monstrosity doing the whole ATM-for-books
   thing back in 2004, but it looks like the concept is about to take
   a big step with the new "Espresso" machine from On Demand
   Books. The $50,000 vending machine is about to debut in somewhere
   between 10 and 25 libraries and bookstores in 2007, including the
   New York Public Library in February. The machine can produce two
   books simultaneously in seven minutes, a time which includes all
   the printing, binding and cutting involved. The machine even slaps
   a snazzy laminated full-color cover on its creations. Books top out
   at around 550 pages, and right-to-left texts are
   possible. Production cost is about five cents per page, which
   should be quite a bargain for the roughly one million public domain
   English works currently floating around the Internets, but we're
   not sure what the exact costs will be levied by bookstores and
   copyright holders for the other titles -- there are currently 2.5
   million books available for printing by the Espresso."

* The "Would you like fries with that?" mentality is missing from publishing
  Because it's a monopoly.
  Connect up the reader with other related books, suggest them on the
  spot; webs of abridgements, etc.  Author-approval mark is key here.

  And how do you define "author"?  Simple: we already solved that for
  copyright, just use the same solution.

* http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22print-on-demand%22+machine+cost+book&btnG=Google+Search

   http://dvice.com/archives/2006/12/booksondemand_machine_coming_s.php
   http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/12/01/8395114/index.htm
   http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/01/11/print_on_demand_and_digitization