Everything you could possibly want to know about Canadian publishers, booksellers, and readers in 2018.
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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.
Images in ebooks
- March 21, 2018
Naomi Kennedy (Penguin Random House) takes us through the often conflicting recommendations from ebook vendors and shows you how to optimize images in all of your EPUBs.
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.
Join Jiminy and Dave for an Excellent CSS Adventure, traveling through time from the dawn of the Kindle era, through today’s responsive EPUBs, to the future of web publications.
The ebook world is evolving around us. Liisa McCloy-Kelley teaches us how to focus on what really matters without allowing yourself to get too distracted by all the shiny objects out there.
Librarian and technologist Jessamyn West will talk about what we know about the digitally divided and what works… and what doesn’t to help them interact with the larger world of technology.
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.
Join us for a Loan Stars update where we’ll discuss its impact over the past year, trends we’re noticing, and how you can get involved.
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.
Learn more about the Canadian book industry’s bibliographic aggregation system and how it’s supporting publishers, distributors, booksellers, and everyone in between.
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.