The theme for TOC 2011 is: Publishing Without Boundaries—both literally and figuratively. Book publishing is crossing boundaries all over the place. Thanks to technology, the publishing marketplace is a truly global one. Content now has the ability to travel light, and at a moment's notice, finding its way across continents at the touch of a button. Books themselves are becoming borderless... [read more]

The theme for TOC 2011 is: Publishing Without Boundaries—both literally and figuratively. Book publishing is crossing boundaries all over the place. Thanks to technology, the publishing marketplace is a truly global one. Content now has the ability to travel light, and at a moment's notice, finding its way across continents at the touch of a button. Books themselves are becoming borderless shape-shifters, jumping out of their covers, moving in and out of formats, and being annotated and chunked and enhanced. And, the borders of publishing as an industry have expanded well beyond the confines of "New York." Entrepreneurial start-ups and indie authors are more and more likely to be rubbing virtual elbows with the Big Six on the best-seller lists, while the book bloggers and tweets seem to have as much sway over reading choices as professional reviews.