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Bookbuilders West is pleased and proud to acknowledge the sponsors for this year's event. If you are interested in participating, please contact Stephen Thomas at (408) 916-1175 or sthomas@bookblock to receive an information packet.
 
Patron:
Bookmatters
Bradford and Bigelow
Chronicle Books
ICG Holliston
Key Curriculum Press
Laserwords
Malloy, Inc.
Maple-Vail
McNaughton-Gunn
New Leaf Paper
New World Library
Univ. of California Press
Techbooks
TWP America, Inc.
VSI
Wadsworth
Webcrafters

Contributor:
Bookblock
Edwards Brothers
Lehigh Press
Phoenix Color
Powis Parker
Quebecor World
RR Donnelley
The Sheridan Group
Von Hoffman

Benefactor:
Book Business Magazine
CoChel Communications
Global Interprint
Hespenheide Design
IBT
Pinnacle Press
STI Books and Media
Transcontinental
TBH Typecast

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36th Annual Book Show and Awards Celebration

Change—
Grow with it.
Bank on it.

Change. It never feels comfortable, conventional, or familiarÑdoes it? ItÕs filled with unknown elements that are often not reassuringøsometimes they are even alarming. BUT the truth is, change is always about continuous improvement, always about increasing effectiveness and efficiency, always making something betterÑan idea, a product, an event, even ourselves!

ThatÕs why the BBW 2007 Book Show and Awards Celebration has changed to a lunch eventÑmany of you requested a change in time and venue to improve overall attendance and ease logistical concerns and cost.

ThatÕs why the BBW 2007 Book Show and Awards CelebrationÕs format has changed to include two guest speakers and some of the awards will be presented in different waysÑmany of you asked that more knowledge-sharing be included as we honor and celebrate the best-of-the-best in our industry.

ThatÕs why the BBW 2007 Book Show and Awards CelebrationÕs theme focuses on ÒChangeÓÑthe changes and innovation going on in our industry and the changes necessary in ourselves to sustain successful professional development. Our guest speakers are known for thinking out-of-the-box with flexibility and great returnÑand their experiences and entertaining delivery will truly inspire you.

Speakers

Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D
Kinsey Consulting Services
www.ckg.com

Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., is president of a consulting firm. As an international lecturer who specializes in the human side of organizational change, Carol Kinsey Goman presents keynote addresses and seminars for management conferences and major trade associations. Clients include over 90 corporate giant organizations in 19 countries, such as Consolidated Edison, Royal Bank of Canada, PepsiCo, as well as major non profit organizations, high tech and international firms and government agencies.

Carol Kinsey Goman has published over 100 articles in the fields of organizational change, leadership, innovation, communications, the new employer employee "compact," employee motivation, attracting and keeping great people and international business practices. Carol Kinsey Goman has written nine business books, including This Isn't the Company I Joined, Change Busting: 50 Ways to Sabotage Organizational Change, and her most recent, GHOST STORY: A Modern Business Fable about the power of collaboration and why people don't tell what they know.

Carol Kinsey Goman has been cited as an authority in media such as Industry Week, Investors Business Daily, CNN's Business Unusual, ZDTV's Silicon Spin, and the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Carol Kinsey Goman has served as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the International MBA program, at the University of California in the Executive Education Department and for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at their Institutes for Organization Management.

Prior to founding KCS, Carol Kinsey Goman was a therapist with a private practice specializing in short term therapy for behavioral change. Carol Kinsey Goman lives in Berkeley, California with her husband who refuses to change anything.

Jim Gerber
Director of Content Partnerships
Google
www.google.com
9:45 a.m. Book Exhibition Salon

Jim is in charge of partner recruitment and management for GoogleÕs content acquisition initiatives for published content, including books, journals, magazines and newspapers. This corresponds to Google products such as Google Book Search, Google Scholar and Google News Archive Search, among others. His team is responsible for the many hundreds of partners participating in these initiatives. Jim has over 18 years of sales, business development and product marketing experience in technology related businesses. Before joining Google, Jim was VP of Sales for Outcome Software, a provider of Enterprise Profitability Management software, and NOCPulse, a provider of outsourced data center management services. Jim has also held the position of VP, Business Development at Ashford.com, an e-tailer of luxury goods, and was a top performer in sales management at Clarify, a provider of CRM software. Jim holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from the Stanford Universit Graduate School of Business.

Eileen Gittins
Founder, President and CEP
Blurb
www.blurb.com
10:45 a.m. Book Exhibition Salon

Eileen Gittins has been at the intersection of the Internet, consumer and enterprise software, imaging systems, search, and digital photography throughout her career. A passionate advocate for enabling technologies that offer new ways to do valuable things, Ms. Gittins is now democratizing publishing for the rest of us with her new company, Blurb.

Blurb is a software and services company that passionately believes in the power of books: making, reading, sharing and selling them. Blurb allows anyone online to convert content into beautifully designed, affordable and professional bookstore print quality books. With BookSmart ª software anyone can be an author ø every marketer, traveler, small business professional, blogger, cook, photographer, poet, consultant ø and turn content into a professional quality book in minutes.

Books remain the most reliable way to not only capture, but also share our knowledge and experience for months, years and generations to come. The Blurb publishing service provides a fast, affordable and easy way to create books to share, sell for profit, and use as fundraising vehicles or promotional tools.

For consumers Blurb allows you to really ÒtellÓ a story with photo and text features, and the end result is a professionally designed coffee table style book. Blurb offers the best and simplest way for every person and community to express their knowledge, creativity and life experiences in a book, and share that book with the world.

Gittins has served as CEO of several pre-IPO venture-backed companies in Silicon Valley, including Personify -- an e-commerce data mining and analytics company, and Verb ø a context-based search engine company. Each was acquired by Accrue and Attenza respectively. At Qbiquity, a viral marketing platform company, Ms. Gittins served as Board Chairman and interim CEO, where she was instrumental in negotiating the merger of Qbiquity into Collabrys. As CEO, she has raised over $40MM in venture capital throughout her career.

Most recently, Gittins served as interim executive management at Viant, a San Francisco-based investment-banking firm in the technology and media sectors. She has also served in executive positions at Wall Data; Pivotal Corp, an Eastman Kodak spinout; and Kodak's Business Imaging Systems.

Eileen is an experienced public speaker and panelist, and has been the subject of feature articles in publications as varied as the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Fortune Magazine, and in July of 2006 in New York Times and Fast Company.

If you have questions about the Book Show, please contact the Book Show chair by sending email to bookshow@bookbuilders.org, or call Elise Gochberg at 707-585-7445.