Tricia McCraney (Virtusales Publishing Solutions) offers insights on how you can anticipate everything from costing and estimating to contracting, rights sales, and royalties for audiobook formats.
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Keely Kundell and Brendan Flattery (Harlequin) talk about their new module for metadata that will revolutionize the way they reach consumers, market their books, maximize data integrity, and optimize data at scale.
Tim Middleton (BookNet Canada) shares how with 3 million records (and counting), BNC BiblioShare has grown into the go-to source for quality-assured book data in Canada.
Carol Gordon (BookNet Canada) provides a first-hand look at the latest upgrades to the BNC CataList system and shares some of the new developments planned for 2019.
Monique Mongeon (BookNet Canada) shows a first glimpse of our circulation data aggregation tool, BNC LibraryData, as well as reports in action.
Elizabeth Barker (BookNet Canada) shares the 2018 highlights of the Loan Stars readers’ advisory program, from welcoming hundreds of new library staff from across Canada to launching Loan Stars Jr.
Christian Roy (Brix Labs) gives an insight about the findings of Projet TAMIS, a project launched by Éditions du Septentrion in collaboration with Brix Labs to address discoverability challenges.
Jessica Albert (ECW Press) and Brendan Ouellette (Annick Press) discuss the many options available to large and small publishers when creating an audiobook program from the ground up.
This presentation introduces everyone to the process of creating something where there wasn’t something before, and demoing what has been done so far for the audiobook spec.
The latest statistics on Canadian book buying, reading, and consumer habits.
Shannon Culver (eBOUND Canada) and Sabina Iseli-Otto (National Network for Equitable Library Service) share some of the lessons learned at this year’s Accessible Publishing Summit.
Jordyn Martinez (Simon & Schuster Canada) demonstrates how to sift through the piles of data — from backlist and comp sales to forecasting popularity — to find the pieces that will really sell your book.