Booksellers discuss the pressing issues affecting the trade in 2018, including drawing customers to a bricks-and-mortar experience, engaging with publisher suppliers in new and innovative ways, and testing new models for retail.
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Simply accessible
- March 21, 2018
Demonstrating with a real-world project and including live demonstrations of InDesign features and their impact on the user, Kevin Callahan and Rachel Comerford will provide a roadmap for simply accessible ebooks.
So you think you can code 2018
- March 22, 2018
You know a beautifully designed ebook when you see it, and you’ve got the chops to show us how it’s done.
So you think you can style?
- March 21, 2018
If styles in InDesign confuse you, or you just need to master them, this session is for you!
The metadata is the message: Balancing best practice with real life requirements in ONIX
- March 23, 2018
Your marketing message lives in your metadata, and that message should be clear. This session offers real-life examples for enhancing your ONIX data, avoiding common missteps, and minding best practice.
Universal CSS: How to maintain flexibility and title-specific branding, while secretly taking away the freedom of design
- March 21, 2018
The struggle to create standard CSS for a wide range of textbooks that establishes a standard schema, validates for consistent structure, handles complex layouts, and adheres to accessibility guidelines.
NNELS will show you what they do to make a book accessible and demonstrate how EPUB files behave when they’re not accessible.
What do you know about the characters in your lists? Using data to reveal gender bias in contemporary fiction
- March 23, 2018
Turning content into data reveals a discouraging trend of female under-representation constant across time and genre. This presentation provides the data necessary to self-assess the content we’re publishing and self-correct.
A frank discussion on the challenges and opportunities for women in today’s publishing industry.
Tzviya Siegman (Wiley) offers an in-depth overview of the publishing activity at W3C. Karen Myers (W3C) highlights several standards and areas of interest that affect publishing.
Wiley began experimenting with shifting from XML-first to HTML-first for a subset of their online journals. Hear about the challenges and the fun along the way.
In this workshop, we’ll show how to test the accessibility of EPUB content, what are the underlying concepts, and what tools and processes can be used along the way.