Bundle up: Everything you need to know about ebook bundling
- March 12, 2015
Many publishers are interested in bundling ebooks and print books, but don’t know where to start. Mary Alice Elcock (BitLit) presents insights into the book bundling market.
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Ebook accessibility tools and best practices: Mysteries of accessible apps and device features revealed
- March 10, 2015
A demonstration and discussion of how people with visual, hearing, physical, and/or cognitive disabilities really use accessibility software and features on mobile devices and computers.
This workshop will feature an a cross-section of ebook retailers discussing successes/fails they see at ebook ingestion, what makes their work easier, and common problems.
Engaging everyone: A case study from Orca Book Publishers
- March 12, 2015
Melanie Jeffs (Orca Book Publishers) will examine how engagement, with customers as well as with staff and authors, can inform content generation and lead to successful marketing strategies.
Wattpad and Sourcebooks have tested out a number of publishing experiments together, and in this session, they reveal what they’ve learned.
Len Vlahos (BISG) highlights results from Student Attitude reports, diving deep into how U.S. college students acquire, use, and interact with course material in both print and digital format.
Supersize your sales data basics by looking at how successful businesses leverage their data, how to use numbers to answer your questions, and how use your data for experimentation and flexibility.
What talents and sensibilities must publishers seek, and should they be hiring from outside industries, cultivating those skills in-house, investing in educational programs, or all three?
We’re all familiar with — one representation of an underlying data model. Learn about other possibilities — for example JSON, other forms of RDF, and discuss why there’s no one right expression.
Using a combination of improved data input and CataList’s excellent edit function, you can quickly and easily take the data you have and make your CataList pages informative, beautiful, and clean.
While the dream of a single metadata feed for all product forms still eludes us, there are ways that you can streamline the process of creating and updating the records for different formats in BiblioShare.
It’s time to think about upgrading your metadata to support Thema and ONIX 3.0.