Mediabistro.com on Wednesday announced the first eBook Summit, a conference and trade show designed to help content creators and publishers find opportunities in the changing digital publishing industry.

eBook Summit is scheduled for Dec. 15-16 at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City. The event focuses on innovations in digital publishing, including eBooks, eReaders, e-commerce, and publishing on-demand.

Among the sessions scheduled include "The Business of Free" (a topic we're all familiar with); "The New Book Club: Social Networking"; and "Print on Demand."

Speakers to date include:

Brandon Badger, Product Manager for Google Books
Susan Danziger, CEO of DailyLit
Steve Haber, President of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division
Katty Kay, BBC World News America Washington correspondent and author of Womenomics

Mediabistro.com's eBook Summit is for media professionals involved in creating, distributing, marketing, or selling content -- from the publishing industry to literary and talent agencies, as well as broadcast and online media. The vendor area will be a marketplace for organizations that provide devices, tools, technology, services and infrastructure for all aspects of the digital publishing world.

Click here for more information and to register for the conference.