Life after Adobe
- March 21, 2018
Simon Collinson and Nick Barreto (Canelo Digital Publishing) will walk the audience through their Adobe-free toolbelt, giving tips, tricks, and warning of potholes to avoid.
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Handling equations in ebooks is a pain point when dealing with STEM content. Luckily, there are open-source tools that try to pragmatically solve this problem for the web.
Join a panel of experts from the publishing industry and beyond for an overview of blockchain technology: the opportunities and potential roadblocks it could present the publishing supply chain.
Bot boom: What marketers need to know about chatbots now
- March 23, 2018
This presentation for marketers who are considering using bots for their business, highlighting what they are, why they’ve become so popular, and how to leverage them for customer service, e-commerce, and more.
Léonicka Valcius and Anyka Davis interrogate and rethink in-house processes and assumptions that come before publication date, including acquisitions, audience identification, setting sales expectations and budgets, and more.
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.
About three years ago, Rachel Comerford began two digital journeys: interpreting, applying, and developing ebook standards; and online dating.
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.
Think InDesign can’t provide quality ebook output? Think again. By applying certain rules, you can effectively eliminate the need for a separate workflow and leverage InDesign for all it’s worth.
Minding the gap: Advanced sales strategies for diverse lists
- March 24, 2017
As the publication of diverse books moves from “latest trend” to business priority, sales reps, marketers, and retailers need tools and strategies to effectively sell these books.
New from BookNet Canada for 2017: Standards & certification
- March 24, 2017
Tom Richardson reflects on standards we haven’t yet implemented, especially ONIX 3.0 for print books.