Carol Gordon (BookNet Canada) provides a first-hand look at the latest upgrades to the BNC CataList system and shares some of the new developments planned for 2019.
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Monique Mongeon (BookNet Canada) shows a first glimpse of our circulation data aggregation tool, BNC LibraryData, as well as reports in action.
Elizabeth Barker (BookNet Canada) shares the 2018 highlights of the Loan Stars readers’ advisory program, from welcoming hundreds of new library staff from across Canada to launching Loan Stars Jr.
Nellie McKesson (Hederis) explains the problems that publishers are facing, and how web-based pagination can offer a solution.
Christian Roy (Brix Labs) gives an insight about the findings of Projet TAMIS, a project launched by Éditions du Septentrion in collaboration with Brix Labs to address discoverability challenges.
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.
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.
A hands-on workshop where participants take on a few of the perennial challenges unique to digital publishing.
Speccing the void: Adventures in the audiobooks abyss
- March 20, 2019
This presentation introduces everyone to the process of creating something where there wasn’t something before, and demoing what has been done so far for the audiobook spec.
State of the bookselling & publishing nation 2019
- March 20, 2019
The latest statistics on Canadian book buying, reading, and consumer habits.
This workshop includes hands-on training in assembling audiobooks from sample audio, QAing tablemates’ audio, and understanding required metadata.
Keywords and discoverability on Amazon: A Canadian context
- March 20, 2019
eBOUND Canada conducted a study using a sample of ebooks from Canadian publishers to gauge the efficacy of adding audience-driven keywords to the metadata. These are the results.