Content Library
Join InDesign-to-EPUB expert Anne-Marie Concepción as she reveals the power under InDesign’s EPUB 3 hood for reflowable and fixed-layout EPUBs.
This workshop is for anyone who wants to prepare themselves for being hired in a CMS workflow or if you already work in a CMS and want to sharpen your skillset.
Charles Nix presents an ordered guide to typography for ebooks — balancing time-tested principles with the opportunities unique to the next reading environment.
Many books, particularly non-fiction, would be more useful to readers as digital products. Witness the live development of such an app and walk away with the skills needed for innovation at any publisher.
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.
What Thema can do: Leveraging metadata to support the discoverability of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis publishing and books by Indigenous authors
- January 22, 2026
A conversation about the latest developments and additions made to the subject classification system, Thema.
Opting out of FXL
- March 10, 2015
Fixed-layout is a print-replica format that serves certain kinds of content really well. But let’s talk about why and how to opt out of this limited format.
Digital typography: Font management
- March 30, 2016
In this session, Monotype type designer Charles Nix shares how to bring quality typography to the screen and Champagne Choquer will discuss best practices for font embedding.
The ebook developer’s toolbox
- March 31, 2016
Developing beautiful, functional ebooks for a variety of reading platforms requires a unique combination of knowledge. In this talk, you’ll see some of the essential skills every ebook developer should have.
Beth Jefferson puts the spotlight on BiblioCommons.
New from BookNet Canada for 2017: Standards & certification
- March 24, 2017
Tom Richardson reflects on standards we haven’t yet implemented, especially ONIX 3.0 for print books.
Richard Nash explains how the publishing business is shifting from manufacturing to service, a change vastly more disruptive but also offering vastly greater opportunity than the shift from print to digital.