Content Library
Getting to know the Canadian book buyer
- March 6, 2014
How well do you know the Canadian book buyer? At this session, BookNet Canada’s Noah Genner and Pamela Millar present key findings from BNC’s recent consumer research studies.
What does a digital-native comic look like? How does the graphic narrative form benefit from techniques like responsive design, and tools like version control systems and APIs?
Learn how Big Five and independent publishers have attempted poetry on small screens, and leave with practical tips and techniques for your own clients.
An overview of how Unbound uses JavaScript to solve (and create) problems in ebook production.
Building a better online bookstore with BNC BiblioShare
- March 5, 2014
BookNet Canada is developing a Shopify plugin that will pull rich bibliographic data from BiblioShare into Shopify, allowing small businesses access to the same data available to larger retailers.
Join us for a Loan Stars update where we’ll discuss its impact over the past year, trends we’re noticing, and how you can get involved.
The ebook world is evolving around us. Liisa McCloy-Kelley teaches us how to focus on what really matters without allowing yourself to get too distracted by all the shiny objects out there.
Insight into Sesame Workshop’s experience creating Sesame Street ebooks and apps as well as their global expansion in digital media.
A focused look at activities, purchasing influences, and behaviours of today’s book consumer. Chuck
Closer to metal
- March 31, 2016
Greg Albers (Getty Publications) discusses the shifting fundamentals of book publishing, from setting lead type, to coding and the command line, while diving into some practical applications.
What talents and sensibilities must publishers seek, and should they be hiring from outside industries, cultivating those skills in-house, investing in educational programs, or all three?
Kalpna Patel shares what 2024 brought for the Loan Stars program, and what’s in store for 2025.