Content Library
The challenge of ebook discoverability in a print world
- March 8, 2012
Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury) talks about why bestsellers dominate ebook sales and why the longtail is a long way from a reality for ebooks.
With almost a full year’s worth of top 10 lists under its belt, the Loan Stars program is geared up to continue shining a spotlight on exciting new titles for library staff and their patrons.
Ashleigh Gardner (Wattpad) talks about how you can dominate the ebook market with better metadata.
9 startup strategies that you should be using now!
- March 12, 2015
M.J. D’Elia (Startup Weekend: Library Edition) will explore ‘startup thinking’ to give you new ways to think about solving challenges in your organization.
2021 in the rear view window
- December 16, 2021
The BookNet staff recaps 2021 in terms of book sales in the Canadian market, BookNet staff reading habits, and all the other book news fit to share.
It’s not just the book industry that’s dealing with a challenging retail landscape: across the country, retailers are grappling with consolidation in the trade, the shift to online shopping, and more.
While the dream of a single metadata feed for all product forms still eludes us, there are ways that you can streamline the process of creating and updating the records for different formats in BiblioShare.
Michael Tamblyn (BookNet Canada) describes six initiatives that could make things better for publishers, readers, and others with an interest in the future of the book.
Kevin Ashton draws on his experience as a bookseller, author, marketer, and leader of the “Internet of Things,” to provide guidance and reassurance to help you survive the coming Ebookalypse.
Liza Daly makes a case for clean ebook markup.
This workshop will feature an a cross-section of ebook retailers discussing successes/fails they see at ebook ingestion, what makes their work easier, and common problems.
How do we respond to the narrowing of the reader-writer gap engendered by the internet’s plurality of communities? The only way we can: by trying to understand the change.