Learn about the different kinds of book recommendation engines are out there, how they work and what went into the creation of Discovereads
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Future-proofing publishing: Lightweight technologies publishers should be watching right now
- March 7, 2013
Robert Wheaton talks about some lightweight technologies that publishers should be watching.
Ashleigh Gardner (Wattpad) talks about how you can dominate the ebook market with better metadata.
Sales analysis workshop
- March 6, 2013
Erin Creasey runs a sales analysis workshop.
Self publishing and new opportunities in the book publishing sphere.
Beth Jefferson puts the spotlight on BiblioCommons.
A panel all about the Canadian market for e-singles
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.