Find out what’s new in BNC CataList, BookNet Canada’s e-catalogue solution for the Canadian trade market.
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It’s time to think about upgrading your metadata to support Thema and ONIX 3.0.
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.
Crafting the art (e)book
- March 5, 2014
Explore digital art book projects that worked well or not so well. You’ll leave with a better understanding of what art book publishers want and how to give it to them.
How can UX (User Experience) R&D work in digital publishing, and how can we use it to improve our products and processes?
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.
Matt Garrish talks about EPUB accessibility and conformance standards.
Getting to know the Canadian book buyer
- March 6, 2014
How well do you know the Canadian book buyer? At this session, BookNet Canada’s Noah Genner and Pamela Millar present key findings from BNC’s recent consumer research studies.
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.