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.
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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.
Susan Renouf and Ken Roberts talk about ebook lending in Canada.
Liza Daly makes a case for clean ebook markup.
A narrative future in augmented reality
- March 5, 2014
This session outlines some of the experiments with future forms of the book currently underway in Fisher’s Augmented Reality Lab at York University.
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.
Insight into Sesame Workshop’s experience creating Sesame Street ebooks and apps as well as their global expansion in digital media.