DAM New York 2025

Dave Cramer is a Senior Product Analyst at Hachette Book Group, one of the "Big 5" trade publishers in the U.S. After teaching physics and working as a baker, he became involved in book publishing, starting with print production. He started working with ebooks in 2001, and created the first commercial EPUB files for Hachette in 2007. He was co-editor the IDPF fixed layout specification, and wrote BISG's Field Guide to Fixed Layout. He's a former member of the W3C's CSS Working Group, and helped edit specs on paged media. Dave was co-chair of W3C's EPUB 3 Working Group, which created EPUB 3.3. After all those years working on book production, Dave has led the implementation of a new DAM at HBG, and is delighted to experience the world of digital asset management. He's been a speaker at Book Expo America, Digital Book World, Tools of Change, eBookCraft, and Books in Browsers.