Content Library
Join Jiminy and Dave for an Excellent CSS Adventure, traveling through time from the dawn of the Kindle era, through today’s responsive EPUBs, to the future of web publications.
Laura Dawson walks us through the publishing process from acquisition to final sale, demonstrating the output of metadata at each stage of the process.
When you aim for accessibility, you’re guaranteed to hear about WAI-ARIA. But what is ARIA? When do you use it — and more important, when don’t you?
#eprdctn tools & tips round-up 2021
- March 30, 2021
In this session, attendees were invited to share their ebook war stories, show off their most exceptional hacks, stump for their favourite tools, and seek new perspectives on their most troublesome issues.
So you think you can style?
- March 21, 2018
If styles in InDesign confuse you, or you just need to master them, this session is for you!
Managing human resources without an HR department is challenging at the best of times but during a pandemic it’s vital to ensure your people systems are running smoothly.
Disrupting bias: Overcoming our discomfort with differences
- March 20, 2019
In this highly practical session, Ritu Bhasin draws on the latest neuroscience and leadership research to explore how discomfort with differences manifests within the publishing industry.
Shannon Culver (eBOUND Canada) and Sabina Iseli-Otto (National Network for Equitable Library Service) share some of the lessons learned at this year’s Accessible Publishing Summit.
Minding the gap: Advanced sales strategies for diverse lists
- March 24, 2017
As the publication of diverse books moves from “latest trend” to business priority, sales reps, marketers, and retailers need tools and strategies to effectively sell these books.
The latest statistics on Canadian book buying, reading, and consumer habits. Noah will answer all the questions you didn’t know you had in this chart-friendly presentation.
Faking a grid
- March 18, 2019
In this workshop, we present the CSS authored at Macmillan as a case study and explore alternative ways to code and style complex content with CSS, with a focus on grid and media queries in EPUBs.
Readers will listen: Audiobooks and the sound of sales
- March 24, 2017
With a panel of industry experts and innovators, we’ll discuss current developments in the creation and distribution of audiobooks, alongside new consumer data on what listeners expect from us.