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If you haven’t made plans to attend the Tools of Change Conference, which is coming up in another few weeks, be prepared to drool with envy. O’Reilly will be having an eReader petting zoo on the last day of the conference, and we already have a couple dozen devices waiting to go on display.

Over the past couple months I have been working with Joe Wikert to bring together various tablet and eReader manufacturers. I’ve also dipped into my collection to provide some eReader that you might not see elsewhere.

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O’Reilly Publishing is looking for pitches for its Tools Of Change for Publishing conference in Frankfurt, Germany in October.The event will be taking place at the same time as the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The conference is looking foryoung publishing startups with innovative technologies, business models or approaches to publishing. Here is more from the TOC website: “Each presenter will be given exactly five minutes to share the story behind their product or service, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. In those five minutes, each of our seven lucky presenters will be challenged to pitch their product or service with as much energy and excitement as they can muster. The TOC Frankfurt Innovators’ Ignite is focused on sharing what your company is doing that is – INNOVATIVE, groundbreaking, unique, fun, and inspiring for our international audience of publishers.”

To participate, presenters must be on site and available for the full day of TOC Frankfurt, which will take place Tuesday, October 11, 2011.

Check out our coverage of the TOC conference in New York this past February, to find out what Margaret Atwood thinks of eBooks.