Rarely will you find PowerPoint slides in these books. Essentially, the content is text heavy with consistent
formatting and styles, page numbering, a table of contents, committee members and author index. Proceedings are delivered on site or after the event depending on how an organization obtains content and the amount of editing required.
Printed Proceedings vs. Proceedings on CD-ROM (or Online)
A printed proceedings is still a very important part of many conferences. Attendees find great value in being able to reference the complete paper within what is normally a packed scientific program with only a few minutes for each speaker. When produced for an event, the printed books are typically
perfect bound and the proceedings can be bound as a multi-volume set if the page count is beyond 1250 pages.