The demise of libraries has been predicted since the inception of the internet, but reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated. This panel addresses the impact of libraries in the community, and to the economy.
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It’s not just the book industry that’s dealing with a challenging retail landscape: across the country, retailers are grappling with consolidation in the trade, the shift to online shopping, and more.
By thinking about books in terms of the competition for a customer’s time and as a leisure activity, we may be able to capitalize on some of digital’s natural advantages.
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.
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.
What talents and sensibilities must publishers seek, and should they be hiring from outside industries, cultivating those skills in-house, investing in educational programs, or all three?
Our panel covers the state of standards compliance and speculates on the best path forward.
Supersize your sales data basics by looking at how successful businesses leverage their data, how to use numbers to answer your questions, and how use your data for experimentation and flexibility.
Len Vlahos (BISG) highlights results from Student Attitude reports, diving deep into how U.S. college students acquire, use, and interact with course material in both print and digital format.
What does a digital-native comic look like? How does the graphic narrative form benefit from techniques like responsive design, and tools like version control systems and APIs?
Wattpad and Sourcebooks have tested out a number of publishing experiments together, and in this session, they reveal what they’ve learned.
As publishers, we’ve become experts at managing change, and in some cases we’ve come to embrace it. We’re no longer just experimenting; we’re strategizing and planning for the future.