Robert Wheaton suggests that publishing’s “old world” business model doesn’t constitute dead weight, but rather a secret weapon.
2017
With almost a full year’s worth of top 10 lists under its belt, the Loan Stars program is geared up to continue shining a spotlight on exciting new titles for library staff and their patrons.
Discover tactics and strategies you can bring back to your marketing, publicity, and sales teams to help them create influential conversations that will lead to recommendations and, ultimately, sales.
In this session, we look at the flow of data and consider some of the best practices you can use to make your metadata more consistent and more robust across various end points.
Benjamin Young takes a look at some of the highlights from Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 proposal “Information Management” and focuses them on the world of publishing.
This workshop gives an overview of the JavaScript language: how it works, and core principles. We’ll also talk about what that means for the ebook reading experience, tips for implementation, and guidelines for usage.
This presentation reviews the findings from the Benetech accessibility evaluation pilot program, which are informing a certification process that will be widely adopted by the publishing industry.
This practical workshop demonstrates how editors and designers can ensure books are on target to meet accessibility guidelines, while actively adding value to your digital content and enhancing the reading experience.
Automating ebook production can seem daunting, but there are a lot of tools that can help. Get a first-hand look at a successful case study and get some practical guidance for building functions that work.
GREP can automatically style your text based on patterns that you define. This session will ease you into the world of regular expressions through the thinking process involved and real-world examples.
We expect ebooks to work like the web, but they don’t. By learning about the reading systems we design for, we can start testing new powerful features and designing better reader experiences.
Pull back the curtain on what librarians love about ebooks, why ebook recommendations often come with both raves and caveats, how certain types of books and users are best served by print, and more.