Content Library
How do we respond to the narrowing of the reader-writer gap engendered by the internet’s plurality of communities? The only way we can: by trying to understand the change.
Learn how over 250 publishers, indie authors, and small presses are incorporating NetGalley into their marketing and publicity activities.
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.
Matt Garrish talks about EPUB accessibility and conformance standards.
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.
How can UX (User Experience) R&D work in digital publishing, and how can we use it to improve our products and processes?
Crafting the art (e)book
- March 5, 2014
Explore digital art book projects that worked well or not so well. You’ll leave with a better understanding of what art book publishers want and how to give it to them.
It’s time to think about upgrading your metadata to support Thema and ONIX 3.0.
While the dream of a single metadata feed for all product forms still eludes us, there are ways that you can streamline the process of creating and updating the records for different formats in BiblioShare.
Using a combination of improved data input and CataList’s excellent edit function, you can quickly and easily take the data you have and make your CataList pages informative, beautiful, and clean.
Marvin is an ebook reader built in close collaboration with the reading community and is based on the premise that incredibly powerful mobile technologies can be used to create richer reading experiences.
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.