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

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: infosspnet.org; phone: 
(303) 422-3914

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