How can UX (User Experience) R&D work in digital publishing, and how can we use it to improve our products and processes?
Slide Deck
Richard Nash explains how the publishing business is shifting from manufacturing to service, a change vastly more disruptive but also offering vastly greater opportunity than the shift from print to digital.
Learn how over 250 publishers, indie authors, and small presses are incorporating NetGalley into their marketing and publicity activities.
How do we respond to the narrowing of the reader-writer gap engendered by the internet’s plurality of communities? The only way we can: by trying to understand the change.
Books are set to become the next big forum for public thinking — as readers begin sharing their ideas and arguing in the margins. How will this transform the way we read, discover, and enjoy books?
Myles Fuchs presents useful insights and various “entry points” to digital publishing for iOS and Android apps, ebooks for leading platforms, and to the web from single source content.
Wattpad and Sourcebooks have tested out a number of publishing experiments together, and in this session, they reveal what they’ve learned.
This panel of librarians provides us with valuable insight into how libraries work, from budgets and collections to patron and e-lending statistics.
Liza Daly makes a case for clean ebook markup.
Charles Nix presents an ordered guide to typography for ebooks — balancing time-tested principles with the opportunities unique to the next reading environment.
Building a better online bookstore with BNC BiblioShare
- March 5, 2014
BookNet Canada is developing a Shopify plugin that will pull rich bibliographic data from BiblioShare into Shopify, allowing small businesses access to the same data available to larger retailers.
Marvin is an ebook reader built in close collaboration with the reading community and is based on the premise that incredibly powerful mobile technologies can be used to create richer reading experiences.












