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.
Using the context of his experience as both a publisher and within an all-you-can-read service, Nathan Hull will explore why providing less choice might actually be of more value to the reader.
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.
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the people you design ebooks for, you won’t want to miss this presentation.
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.
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.
