1 hr 21 min
Bill Kasdorf, Publishing Technology Partners Backmatter: The Leanpub Publishing Industry Podcast
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Bill Kasdorf is a partner at the consultancy Publishing Technology Partners, where he provides guidance and insight regarding the publishing industry. He has worked with many well-known companies and institutions, from the scholarly press at Harvard, to the World Bank and the British Library, amongst many others.
In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Bill about his background and how he got interested in the world of books, the importance of standards and interoperability when it comes to accessibility, how standardization fuels innovation, changes to the publishing industry in the past decades, from scholarly to trade publishing, and how the EPUB format is managed, and other topics.
This interview was recorded on September 18, 2018.
The full audio for the interview is here. You can subscribe to the Backmatter podcast in iTunes or add the podcast URL directly.
This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.
Bill Kasdorf is a partner at the consultancy Publishing Technology Partners, where he provides guidance and insight regarding the publishing industry. He has worked with many well-known companies and institutions, from the scholarly press at Harvard, to the World Bank and the British Library, amongst many others.
In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Bill about his background and how he got interested in the world of books, the importance of standards and interoperability when it comes to accessibility, how standardization fuels innovation, changes to the publishing industry in the past decades, from scholarly to trade publishing, and how the EPUB format is managed, and other topics.
This interview was recorded on September 18, 2018.
The full audio for the interview is here. You can subscribe to the Backmatter podcast in iTunes or add the podcast URL directly.
This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.
1 hr 21 min