What's Up with Amazon and Print-on-Demand (POD)
Panel Chair - Babu Writer (aka Nicole Schultheis) is a staff writer for The AvaStar, http://www.The-AvaStar.com, and in real life is a writer and trial lawyer who ran her own law firm for over 20 years before retiring from law to write full time. She is also a past President of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, now called Public Justice, where with Executive Director Aurthur Bryant she founded Project Access in the late 1980s, to oppose unnecessary secrecy in the courts. Since then Public Justice has fought tirelessly to support access to information affecting the public interest, and to oppose overly restrictive secrecy orders in significant public interest litigation, such as Exxon Valdez oil spill, tobacco litigation and many many other cases.
Panelist - DannyOSnow Sygall (aka Danny O. Snow ) is co-author with Dan Poynter of a popular guide to self publishing called "U-Publish.com," at http://u-publish.com/. He's also a Senior Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research, a nonprofit global think tank dedicated to the advanced study of new and emerging media. A Harvard graduate, Snow has been widely quoted about new publishing technologies by major media coast-to-coast, including AP, NPR, UPI, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and others. He has also served as a contributing editor to BookTech: The Magazine for Publishers, as a panelist and moderator at national publishing events such as the North American Publishing Company's "PrintMedia" expos and PMA's "Publishing University," as senior planning consultant to Lulu.com, and as a POD book publisher with Unlimited Publishing LLC.
Panelist - Cybergrrl Oh (aka Aliza Sherman) is an award-winning author, an e-marketing expert, freelance writer, a television & radio producer, and a filmmaker. In Second Life, her show, RealBiz in SL, airs on SLCN.tv. Her books Streetwise ECommerce (upcoming), The Everything Blogging Book, and many others, can be ordered here: http://www.mediaegg.com/books.html. You can also find her on Second Life here:http://cybergrrloh.blogspot.com/
http://realbizinsl.blogspot.com/
http://secondlifewomensclub.blogspot.com/
Pollywog Gardenvale (aka Claire Condra) is a publisher, technical communicator, and interactive producer with a special interest in emerging technology. She has spent the better part of three decades introducing new technologies and concepts to nontechnical people. During the 90s, her company Ellipsys International Publications, Inc., produced books on emerging technogy and also provided packaging services for other publishers. Today, Pollywog Press (www.PollywogPress.com) provides many services in multiple media for print and Web applications. She also publishes The Seventh Sun (http://www.TheSeventhSun.com), an online magazine that provides in-depth coverage of issues, technologies, and culture in the emerging communities of the virtual world.
