Content Library
Charles Nix presents an ordered guide to typography for ebooks — balancing time-tested principles with the opportunities unique to the next reading environment.
A narrative future in augmented reality
- March 5, 2014
This session outlines some of the experiments with future forms of the book currently underway in Fisher’s Augmented Reality Lab at York University.
Liza Daly makes a case for clean ebook markup.
This panel of librarians provides us with valuable insight into how libraries work, from budgets and collections to patron and e-lending statistics.
A focused look at activities, purchasing influences, and behaviours of today’s book consumer. Chuck
Susan Renouf and Ken Roberts talk about ebook lending in Canada.
A panel all about the Canadian market for e-singles
Beth Jefferson puts the spotlight on BiblioCommons.
Self publishing and new opportunities in the book publishing sphere.
Sales analysis workshop
- March 6, 2013
Erin Creasey runs a sales analysis workshop.
Graham Bell (EDItEUR) gives a tour of the semantic web and shows the way linked data has begun to be used by libraries and the potential it holds for the book industry.
Ashleigh Gardner (Wattpad) talks about how you can dominate the ebook market with better metadata.