David G. Durand
About: I'm CEO and founder of Tizra, a company that lets publishers of professional information break the bounds of current print book formats to create compelling online products, and to optimize their financial returns by letting them manage product definitions and commercial terms of access, with a fully-branded web site.
We started Tizra because it meets the needs we saw at publishers and other information sellers when we were working in the custom-site building business.
I've been working with documents and information in one form or another for much of my career.
I've also been a tech geek all of my life. You can find trails of the more academic things that I've done all over the net. Tizra is now my most important professional afiliation.
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Tizra and Chicago Distribution Center to partner
--We're really excited to announce a collaboration with the University of Chicago Press's Chicago Distribution Center to offer online publishing serv...
MIT Press Teams with Tizra to Build an Online Computer Science Library
--The headline says it all. Details in the press release.
TidBITS Signs with Tizra
--We honestly didn't intend for this blog to degenerate into a rah-rah series of signing announcements, but gosh, there's been an awful lot of that ...
The Satisfactions of Matchmaking
--As a company with a newly launched service we're naturally looking for partners whose services complement ours, and who can recommend us to their...
The New York Botanical Garden Press Signs with Tizra
--Famed for its plant collections, architecture and setting, The New York Botanical Garden is not only an exceptionally beautiful place, but a place...
Yum! Tizra Eats Its Dogfood
--We keep talking about how Agile PDF makes it easy for nontechnical users to do sophisticated online publishing. Well, tell a story like that long...
The Federation Press Chooses Agile PDF
--We're happy to announce that The Federation Press, one of Australia's leading publishers of legal, social and academic journals and books, is now ...
The Federation Press Chooses Agile PDF
--We're happy to announce that The Federation Press, one of Australia's leading publishers of legal, social and academic journals and books, is now ...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 2--Customizing Site Design in Agile PDF
--If you’ve seen some of the sites created with Agile PDF, you know how different they can look. But how does this happen? In this second in our s...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 2--Customizing Site Design in Agile PDF
--If you’ve seen some of the sites created with Agile PDF, you know how different they can look. But how does this happen? In this second in our s...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 2--Customizing Site Design in Agile PDF
--If you’ve seen some of the sites created with Agile PDF, you know how different they can look. But how does this happen? In this second in our s...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 2--Customizing Site Design in Agile PDF
--If you’ve seen some of the sites created with Agile PDF, you know how different they can look. But how does this happen? In this second in our s...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 1--Creating a Site With the New Agile PDF Control Panel
--Now that it's public, we're excited to show the new Agile PDF web control panel in a bit more detail. To provide a real-world example, we'll show ...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 1--Creating a Site With the New Agile PDF Control Panel
--Now that it's public, we're excited to show the new Agile PDF web control panel in a bit more detail. To provide a real-world example, we'll show ...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 1--Creating a Site With the New Agile PDF Control Panel
--Now that it's public, we're excited to show the new Agile PDF web control panel in a bit more detail. To provide a real-world example, we'll show ...
Behind the Screens, Pt. 1--Creating a Site With the New Agile PDF Control Panel
--Now that it's public, we're excited to show the new Agile PDF web control panel in a bit more detail. To provide a real-world example, we'll show ...
The Demo That Wasn't and The Conference That Was
--You may have noticed we were pretty excited about O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference, which is still going on through the end of today in New Yo...
The Demo That Wasn't and The Conference That Was
--You may have noticed we were pretty excited about O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference, which is still going on through the end of today in New Yo...
The Demo That Wasn't and The Conference That Was
--You may have noticed we were pretty excited about O'Reilly's Tools of Change conference, which is still going on through the end of today in New Yo...
FEB 11: Catch our Lightning Demo at Tools of Change
--When the first Agile PDF sites launched recently, we promised we'd be saying more soon about how the sites were built. Well, the first public demo...
FEB 11: Catch our Lightning Demo at Tools of Change
--When the first Agile PDF sites launched recently, we promised we'd be saying more soon about how the sites were built. Well, the first public demo...
Live demonstrations in Washington DC
--We’ll be in Washington DC next week, attending the Professional and Scholarly Publishers annual trade show and meeting with local D.C Publishers. ...
Live demonstrations in Washington DC
--We’ll be in Washington DC next week, attending the Professional and Scholarly Publishers annual trade show and meeting with local D.C Publishers. ...
For Those Unimpressed By Marketing
--This personal blog post by Tizra CTO Francisco Rosa gives the hardcore technologist's view of why Agile PDF is different. He may not be in the mark...
For Those Unimpressed By Marketing
--This personal blog post by Tizra CTO Francisco Rosa gives the hardcore technologist's view of why Agile PDF is different. He may not be in the mark...
We're Live
--Congratulations to two publishing organizations that over the past couple of days became the first to go live with sites built using Tizra's Agile ...
We're Live
--Congratulations to two publishing organizations that over the past couple of days became the first to go live with sites built using Tizra's Agile ...
See You in London
--David Durand and Anne Orens will be at the Online Information 2007 conference in London next week, giving demos and answering questions about Agile...
Kindle's Cool, but Remember the Web?
--If anyone can obsolete the printed book, Amazon can, and they're clearly taking a formidable whack at it with their handheld Kindle reader. We can...
Keeping Local Talent Local
--Rhode Island's small, but it's got talent. I'd put the community of designers and software engineers surrounding Brown and RISD up against any I've...
New Providence Business Nexus
--There's a new business development and networking site starting up for Rhode Island, the RI Nexus. I think they are still in soft launch mode to ge...
Context is King!
--John Blossom's post on traditional portal strategies resonated with my recent thinking about aggregation sites (Shorelines: portals Passe). I made ...
Duke University Press signs an agreement with Tizra
--A brief moment for a minor bit of boosterism. Duke University Press has come on board with Tizra as a charter customer, something we’re excited a...
Aggregations are dead! Long live the one true aggregation
--This is a bit of a hormone-supplemented blog post, but I hope the length is worth it. We spend a lot of time pitching to potential investors. You n...
Adobe's epub format and reader
--The Adobe announcements last week were very interesting, but not for the reasons most people seem to think.Here's the real story: The most importan...
The importance of XML is real, but practicality of PDF gets short shrift
--Publisher's weekly seems to have missed a key part of my message during Rebecca's and my backlist tutorial, which is that the long-term term payoff...
Pure Coolness
--I have seen far from all the talks here, but from what I've seen and the buzz that I've heard the winner of the "coolest presentation award" was Ma...
Start of two waves?
--The first wave is a wave of posts. I've arrived at the TOC conference, and gave my tutorial yesterday. I expect that the conference will give me i...
Slater Invests in Tizra
--This is a big one for us. Rhode Island's Slater Technology Fund is betting $500,000 that Tizra will "really open the floodgates for book-based cont...
The XML Paradox
--I have been working on my tutorial for the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference. I'm presenting PDF as a cost-effective option to create revenue fro...
You can't take sides!
--We spend a lot of time explaining ourselves to funders and prospects. In one of our first "real" presentations we were describing why readers will ...
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