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Dear fellow IDPF members,
I submit my nomination for re-election to the IDPF Board of Directors.
This is an exciting time for the eBook industry — product, market and technology
advances are driving us forward with increasing speed. The IDPF should continue
to be at the forefront of the effort to see electronic content delivery achieve
the prominence that was optimistically envisioned at the time of the
organization's founding, and is becoming a reality now.
Over the last seven years the IDPF has recovered from its technical malaise and
has embarked on new standards and research efforts: the Unified OEBPS Content
Container working group completed OCF 1.0 and published the standard in October
2006; the Publication Structure working group developed OPS 2.0 and published
the standard in September of 2007. These new standards are now jointly known as
EPUB. The standard is being widely adopted and evangelized — reaching the goal
of "one format" is happening now.
I have a long history with the IDPF and it predecessor organization. In 1998, I
led the team from SoftBook Press that worked with NuvoMedia and Microsoft
engineers to draft the proposal that would become the starting point for the
OEBF publication standards effort. I served in the roll of vice-chair of the
Publication Structure Working group and was co-Editor of the OEBPS 1.2 standard.
I chaired the OCF working group and co-chaired the OPS/OPF working group. I have
driven EPUB from a standards creation perspective and am actively involved in
the education and promotion efforts around the standard. More recently, I have
accepted the role of vice-chair of the EPUB maintenance Working Group and am
particularly involved in the validation efforts.
I have played technical and executive roles in the eBook industry continuously
over the past twelve years — I am passionate about the promise that the
technology holds. I would like to continue to lend my enthusiasm to this effort
both technically and organizationally. On the technical front, I will drive
standards evangelism and will be closely involved in future IDPF technical
efforts. Organizationally, I would like to retain my seat on the IDPF Board of
Directors and hereby self-nominate for an open seat on the board.
Bio
Garth Conboy is co-founder and President of eBook Technologies, Incorporated
(ETI). The ETI team played significant roles in pioneering the eBook market,
releasing the first commercial eBooks in 1998 and they continue to drive
innovation in electronic book systems. ETI provides and licenses a leading
end-to-end electronic book platform offering a full range of eBook products and
services. The company possesses deep industry knowledge and the end-to-end
technology components to support both enterprise and consumer eBook publishing:
content acquisition, conversion, wholesaling, retailing, DRM, distribution, and
reading.
Prior to co-founding ETI, Garth served as the General Manager and Vice President
of Software Engineering for the Gemstar eBook Group. In these positions he was
responsible for the operation of the division: platform and server engineering,
quality assurance, content acquisition, content operations, content engineering,
and customer support.
Garth is inventor or co-inventor of numerous eBook-related patents; technologies
include: cryptography and secure content distribution, eBook UI,
resource/database dynamic conversion for cross-platform applications, and
optimal paginated document presentation. Prior to its acquisition by Gemstar in
2000, Garth held the position of Vice President of Software Engineering at
SoftBook Press leading the platform, content tools, and content engineering
teams.
Prior to the eBook effort, Garth founded Pacer Software in 1980 and served as
its CEO guiding it to a successful acquisition in 1995.
Sincerely,
Garth Conboy
President
eBook Technologies, Inc.
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