How has the face of the Canadian publishing industry changed over the past four years? Are we a more diverse sector than we were in 2018?
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In this webinar you’ll learn the best practices for using BISAC to classify book content, uncover recent codelist updates, and discover how new subject codes are introduced.
Optimize your publishing from start to finish
- November 18, 2021
From acquisition planning to post-publication analysis, this webinar maps key stages of the publishing process and shares advice on increasing revenue while reducing effort, time, and cost spent on each.
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.
This presentation will not only speak to what author care looks like, but we will empower organizations to create their own tools for authors while reducing burnout.
Pre-publication trends: Using early data to refine launch strategies
- February 25, 2020
This presentation will show publishers how to use pre-order data to focus or hone their sales and marketing efforts, amplify pre-order buzz, and generate more sales on publication.
Towards an accessible digital publishing ecosystem
- July 10, 2020
Accessibility is becoming increasingly important in the publishing industry. This presentation provides an overview of the different aspects involved for all the players who want to embrace accessibility.
Using Thema and ONIX to boost discoverability
- July 8, 2020
EDItEUR’s Chris Saynor explains how publishers can make best use of Thema and ONIX to boost the visibility of Canada’s diverse range of writers both domestically and internationally.
What is quality in metadata?
- April 24, 2020
The publishing industry believes that it’s normal for end users to use data badly and that it’s up to the rest of us to make up for their limitations. This presentation will try to change that.
Why are women always talking to men in novels? A conversation about debiasing books using data analytics
- June 19, 2020
Whether it’s how much space men and women characters take up or the presence or absence of visible minorities, debiasing challenges the common stereotypes that govern how individuals are represented in creative works.
An introduction to ISNI
- June 18, 2020
Chris Saynor (EDItEUR) and Tim Devenport (ISNI agency) give an introduction to the International Standard Name Identifier: what it is, how it works, and look at some of its uses.
This session covers accessibility issues in mainstream audiobook formats, the relevance of the DAISY standard for audiobooks, the new audiobook standard, and a discussion of various automated tools.