O’Reilly will end its Tools of Change Publishing conferences after seven years of operating in several cities, including New York, Frankfurt, and Bologna. In addition, the companion website will also close, and TOC co-chairs Kat Meyer and Joe Wikert will leave the company. “The decision to discontinue a popular conference was not one we made lightly,” publisher Tim O’Reilly said in the announcement on the TOC blog, “But after TOC 2013, we realized that a conference was no longer the best vehicle for us to contribute to publishing’s forward movement…Seven years on, ‘digital publishing’ is well on its way to simply […]