Content Library

The user’s perspective: Accessibility features in action
- March 19, 2019
Accessibility and Usability Consultant, Ka Li, from the National Network for Equitable Library Service, talks about how accessibility features are used (or can’t be used) by people with print disabilities.

The past, present, and future of digital publishing that hasn’t, isn’t, but may still meet the promise of the web
- March 19, 2019
What might the future of ebooks look like? Are Web Publications real? This session is part history lesson, part unhinged rant, part futile attempt to predict the future.

The bunny slopes of SVG mountain
- March 18, 2019
Naomi Kennedy guides you on the SVG image format as it pertains to ebooks: what it is, how and why it’s used, and demo tools to create and edit these image files.

The audiobook’s tale
- March 20, 2019
Tricia McCraney (Virtusales Publishing Solutions) offers insights on how you can anticipate everything from costing and estimating to contracting, rights sales, and royalties for audiobook formats.

The accessibility supply chain: Reporting from the front lines of inclusive ebook production
- March 20, 2019
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.

State of the bookselling & publishing nation 2019
- March 20, 2019
The latest statistics on Canadian book buying, reading, and consumer habits.

Speccing the void: Adventures in the audiobooks abyss
- March 20, 2019
This presentation introduces everyone to the process of creating something where there wasn’t something before, and demoing what has been done so far for the audiobook spec.
A hands-on workshop where participants take on a few of the perennial challenges unique to digital publishing.
Learn how to fix your backlist bestsellers, to shine them up to a newer EPUB specification and ready for the diverse needs of a broad spectrum of readers.

Readers are listening: Best practices in the production and distribution of audiobooks
- March 20, 2019
Jessica Albert (ECW Press) and Brendan Ouellette (Annick Press) discuss the many options available to large and small publishers when creating an audiobook program from the ground up.
Christian Roy (Brix Labs) gives an insight about the findings of Projet TAMIS, a project launched by Éditions du Septentrion in collaboration with Brix Labs to address discoverability challenges.
Nellie McKesson (Hederis) explains the problems that publishers are facing, and how web-based pagination can offer a solution.



