Content Library
Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks) guides you to transform your publishing company through innovation and digital entrepreneurship.
End of the conveyor belt: A bookstore’s perspective on quality control, support improvements, and user feedback
- March 22, 2018
In addition to a general overview of ebook testing and support at Kobo, this presentation provides some historical context for how processes and reading platforms have evolved at Kobo over the years.
Neha Thanki presents a new-and-improved SalesData released this year, featuring faster processing, more detailed and customizable reporting, and a highly user-friendly interface.
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.
The art of storyboarding
- March 31, 2016
This session is (literally) an illustrated view of storyboarding and how you can leverage its related techniques to organize print-centric content for digital book formats.
Drawing from two recent reports on distribution and digital publishing in the Canadian market, Craig Riggs will explore the variety of options and strategies currently in use.
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.
Managing disruption: Online book marketing in a volatile age
- March 31, 2026
In this session from Ariel Hudnall, marketers at every end of the book supply chain will learn best practices for this deeply volatile time in online marketing.
As publishers, we’ve become experts at managing change, and in some cases we’ve come to embrace it. We’re no longer just experimenting; we’re strategizing and planning for the future.
Learn about the different kinds of book recommendation engines are out there, how they work and what went into the creation of Discovereads
How has the publishing supply chain revolutionized? What’s next? Discover how publishers can move from gatekeeping to partnerships in this session by Richard Nash.
This panel of librarians provides us with valuable insight into how libraries work, from budgets and collections to patron and e-lending statistics.