This presentation for marketers who are considering using bots for their business, highlighting what they are, why they’ve become so popular, and how to leverage them for customer service, e-commerce, and more.
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Léonicka Valcius and Anyka Davis interrogate and rethink in-house processes and assumptions that come before publication date, including acquisitions, audience identification, setting sales expectations and budgets, and more.
Saadia Muzaffar guides us through an exploration of how leaders in the publishing sector can reimagine their work and its impact, and reconcile that with the realities of business and bottom lines.
Using the context of his experience as both a publisher and within an all-you-can-read service, Nathan Hull will explore why providing less choice might actually be of more value to the reader.
Librarian and technologist Jessamyn West will talk about what we know about the digitally divided and what works… and what doesn’t to help them interact with the larger world of technology.
Join us for a Loan Stars update where we’ll discuss its impact over the past year, trends we’re noticing, and how you can get involved.
Learn more about the Canadian book industry’s bibliographic aggregation system and how it’s supporting publishers, distributors, booksellers, and everyone in between.
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 session will give you deeper insights into what keywords are, how they work, and what you can do to join the keywords revolution.
As the publication of diverse books moves from “latest trend” to business priority, sales reps, marketers, and retailers need tools and strategies to effectively sell these books.
Ashleigh Gardner dives deep into case studies and explores how Wattpad approaches data and discovery to identify hidden stories that translate into publishing success.












