Susan Renouf and Ken Roberts talk about ebook lending in Canada.
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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.
Laura Dawson walks us through the publishing process from acquisition to final sale, demonstrating the output of metadata at each stage of the process.
The challenge of ebook discoverability in a print world
- March 8, 2012
Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury) talks about why bestsellers dominate ebook sales and why the longtail is a long way from a reality for ebooks.
Learn about the different kinds of book recommendation engines are out there, how they work and what went into the creation of Discovereads
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.