Concurrent 1B: Going Large with E-Books – Can You Do It All?

Allen Noren is Director of VP Online and Digital Initiatives at O’Reilly Media. He’s been with the company since 1992 when one of his first jobs was to maintain the O’Reilly Gopher site.

He was a founding member of the GNN team that built one of the first commercial web portals, and was part of the group that created Safari Books Online and SafariU. He is currently helping to drive O’Reilly’s digital efforts.

Nick Evans joined The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) in January 2005 as Chief Operating Officer. He has responsibility for publishing Learned Publishing journal as well as for the delivery of the full range of services available to members including seminars, training, research and publications and the two cooperative services, the ALPSP Learned Journals Collection and the ALPSP eBooks Collection.

Nick has worked in various branches of academic and more general publishing, having started his career with William Heinemann Ltd in London. Before ALPSP he had worked for six years for the International Labour Organization, a UN specialized agency. He has a composer wife who also writes, a son in computer games and a daughter who works for the fine art auctioneer Christie’s, so life is never dull.