Follow the journey of an ebook from publisher to library reader, Rose Donohoo (OverDrive) and Maria Cipriano (Toronto Public Library), in conversation with Teresa Elsey (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), survey the ebook lending landscape.
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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.
Everything you could possibly want to know about Canadian publishers, booksellers, and readers in 2018.
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.
Larissa Walker (Harlequin) gives a peek at their video marketing strategy: how to boost your online marketing campaigns, drive user engagement, and increase ROI with dynamic, integrated video content.
When you aim for accessibility, you’re guaranteed to hear about WAI-ARIA. But what is ARIA? When do you use it — and more important, when don’t you?
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.
#standardsgoals for 2019: Standards & certification roundup
- March 20, 2019
Tom Richardson ( BookNet Canada) answers your pressing questions and shows you what’s new, what’s important, and what’s coming up in standards.
A crisis management lens for #metoo and the media industry
- March 20, 2019
Using case studies related to the #MeToo movement and the publishing industry. Melissa Mack (Witt O’Brien) demonstrates how the principles of Crisis Management can be used to mitigate consequences of all types of crises.
The digital catalogue tool for the Canadian book industry has undergone some major developments in the past year, adding new tools and improved features to help the industry market, sell, and order books more quickly and easily.