Content Library
After a busy year working closely with our core users to make collecting and analyzing all that juicy data quicker and easier, SalesData is gearing up for a big year of new, oft-requested feature developments. And If you’ve ever wanted to see library circulation data, then we have some exciting news for you. Join us for a sneak peek at a major development we’ve got in the works.
The digital catalogue tool for the Canadian book industry has undergone some major developments in the past year, adding new tools and improved features to help the industry market, sell, and order books more quickly and easily.
Learn more about the Canadian book industry’s bibliographic aggregation system and how it’s supporting publishers, distributors, booksellers, and everyone in between.
Handling equations in ebooks is a pain point when dealing with STEM content. Luckily, there are open-source tools that try to pragmatically solve this problem for the web.
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.
Life after Adobe
- March 21, 2018
Simon Collinson and Nick Barreto (Canelo Digital Publishing) will walk the audience through their Adobe-free toolbelt, giving tips, tricks, and warning of potholes to avoid.
Librarian and technologist Jessamyn West will talk about what we know about the digitally divided and what works… and what doesn’t to help them interact with the larger world of technology.
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.
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.
In this workshop, we’ll show how to test the accessibility of EPUB content, what are the underlying concepts, and what tools and processes can be used along the way.
Images in ebooks
- March 21, 2018
Naomi Kennedy (Penguin Random House) takes us through the often conflicting recommendations from ebook vendors and shows you how to optimize images in all of your EPUBs.
Wiley began experimenting with shifting from XML-first to HTML-first for a subset of their online journals. Hear about the challenges and the fun along the way.