Content Library
Improving your metadata: Common issues and how to fix them
- December 3, 2024
BookNetters share some of the most common issues we see in publishers’ metadata and explain how to fix them.
A conversation about how Edmonton Public Library and Annick Press built a strong partnership to better serve and reach readers.
#StandardsGoals for 2024: What’s new for BISAC
- April 25, 2024
BookNet Canada’s representative in the BISG Subject Code Committee updates us on the recent additions and changes made to the BISAC list.
Project Manager, Tim Middleton shares what happened with BiblioShare in 2022 and what’s to come for 2023.
Creating a roadmap for accessibility
- March 23, 2017
Learn how to develop a practical roadmap for creating accessible ebooks that’s customized to the unique considerations of your press and workflow.
In January 2022, we convened a panel of retailers, all of whom launched their bookstore during the pandemic. Where are they one year later?
This presentation reveals areas of diversity specific to Canadian populations that are needed in library collections.
Inclusivity, diversity, and harmonizing the metadata supply chain: Standards at EDItEUR
- March 20, 2019
Chris Saynor (EDItEUR) shares how Thema, the subject category scheme for the global book trade, can be used to identify and improve the discoverability of titles suitable for a more diverse and inclusive audience.
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.
This session is a pause-and-take-stock look at ebooks and accessibility, looking closely at: what work has been done up to now, the work that is going on at present, and what’s left to do.
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.
On again; off again
- March 23, 2017
In this talk, we take a look at some of the key bits of technology being used by phase-shifting applications, and how they (and other ideas) may have a possible use in Portable Web Publications.