Threepress Consulting Inc. is a technology company servicing the publishing and educational industries.

Liza Daly, President

Threepress owner Liza Daly provides strategy and software for publishers, authors, and vendors and has a long history of successful work in both the web and publishing industries. She was the lead developer on major online products for Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Rosen Publishing, and O'Reilly Media. In 2008, she developed Bookworm, one of the first open source ePub readers, and in February of 2010 released Ibis Reader™, the first HTML5 ebook platform. Liza also has significant experience in interactive development for public radio and television.

Keith Fahlgren

Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant with Threepress. He specializes in helping publishers create effective and engaging digital content and is the co-developer of the innovative ebook reader Ibis Reader. His contributions to the digital publishing ecosystem include developing the ePub output for the open-source DocBook-XSL Stylesheets and spearheading the development of OPDS Catalogs, an attempt to make web-accessible ebooks more discoverable as part of the BookServer project. Keith has spoken widely and was formerly at O'Reilly Media, where he helped design and implement many of their digital publishing workflows.

Consulting team

Threepress employs digital publishing experts to consult on individual projects or develop software tools. We have expertise in DocBook, TEI, ePub, DITA, InDesign, XSLT, DSpace, and DAISY.

Writing

Blogs	Professional articles	Books
Liza is a contributor to O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change publishing blog, focusing on document formats, ebooks, and academic publishing. Read posts. She has also blogged for TeleRead on subjects such as applying open source techniques to publishing. Official Threepress.org blog	IBM DeveloperWorks article and tutorials: Building a digital book with ePub Doing more with the Django admin Better Django models High-performance XML parsing in Python NISO Information Standards Quarterly article on Bookworm, published December 2008	In March of 2007, O'Reilly published her ebook Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python, which covered three development platforms in Python including Django, which powers Bookworm. Liza is also a regular technical editor for O'Reilly and has worked on several CSS and Python books, including CSS: The Definitive Guide, Python for Linux System Administrators and SQLAlchemy.

Speaking

Threepress provides custom professional development and has presented worldwide at publishing and technical conferences. Please see our Speaking page for archived presentations and details.

Advocacy

Liza and Keith are active in the open source technology community and are strong advocates for experimentation, agile development, and innovation in publishing. In April of 2010, Liza was elected to the IDPF Board of Directors. Both Keith and Liza are members of various IDPF EPUB Working Groups. Liza was a member of the advisory board for the Web 2.0 Expo NYC conference in 2008 and 2009, and was also on the board for O'Reilly's digital publishing conference, Tools of Change in 2009 and 2010.

Keith developed the open-source DocBook-XSL ePub Stylesheets. Both are core members of the OPDS Catalog specification group, part of the BookServer project.

Threepress is a member of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).

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