This session is (literally) an illustrated view of storyboarding and how you can leverage its related techniques to organize print-centric content for digital book formats.
2016
This workshop is for anyone who wants to prepare themselves for being hired in a CMS workflow or if you already work in a CMS and want to sharpen your skillset.
Developing beautiful, functional ebooks for a variety of reading platforms requires a unique combination of knowledge. In this talk, you’ll see some of the essential skills every ebook developer should have.
What if we could start over with EPUB, without worrying about backward compatibility? What would an ebook format look like? Could we make it simpler, more powerful, less maddening?
When ebooks make a publisher’s dream of never having books go out of print become a reality, what editorial, production, and technical obstacles arise?
In this workshop, you’ll learn why UTP chose the XML-first route, what the workflow actually looks like, and the benefits and growing pains they’ve seen over the years.
The CataList team has been working hard to deliver new and improved ways to promote, sell, browse, and order books online.
Neha Thanki presents a new-and-improved SalesData released this year, featuring faster processing, more detailed and customizable reporting, and a highly user-friendly interface.
BookNet’s Pamela Millar presents all the new and upcoming projects (like Loan Stars) that are innovating to help publishers and libraries work together towards their common goal: getting books into the hands of readers.
It’s been a big year for standards, from the rollout of ONIX 3.0 to the new BISAC codes for young adult books. Are you up-to-date?
Check your biases at the door as ebook experts make things personal at ebookcraft’s first debate: “be it resolved that ebook design is insignificant.”
Learn how to add papercasting (a process designed to test users’ experiences without doing a software build) to your ebook development workflow to ensure clear interactivity for your readers.