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Widely distributed digital printing

 Brooks, Kenneth 
 
 Kenneth  Brooks
 Jr.
 Vice President, Digital Content Division
  Barnes & Noble, Inc. 
 New York 
 USA 
Barnes & Noble, Inc.,  122 Fifth Avenue
New York  New York  10011 USA
Phone: 212-633-3402 Fax: 212-633-3470 email: kbrooks@bn.com web site: www.bn.com
 Biography
 Kenneth Brooks, Jr. — Ken Brooks is Vice President of Digital Content at Barnes & Noble, Inc. and President of EP Ventures, Inc. He joined Barnes & Noble in 1999 where he founded EP Ventures, a Philippines-based text conversion and composition company, as well as the 1873 Press, a POD and eBook publishing entity. Ken has held several senior management positions in publishing, including Vice President of Operations, Production, and Strategic Planning at Bantam Doubleday Dell and Vice President of Customer Operations at Simon and Schuster. Prior to his entry into publishing, Ken was a Senior Manager in Andersen Consulting’s Logistics Strategy Practice. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
 With the advent of on-demand printing and fulfillment of books centrally and at point-of-purchase, digital printing is poised to take the book publishing and retailing industries by storm. This presentation will address some of the challenges we're facing in the management of a large-scale distributed printing application across a wide variety of print engines.

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