There are three iron laws of the information age: creativity, freedom, and business. You can’t attain any kind of sustained commercial, creative success without understanding these laws.
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What’s new and upcoming with BNC BiblioShare? Find out from Tim Middleton, Project Manager and Retail Liaison at BookNet Canada.
Find out what’s new in BNC CataList, BookNet Canada’s e-catalogue solution for the Canadian trade market.
What’s new and upcoming for BNC Standards and Certification?
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?
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.
Using a combination of improved data input and CataList’s excellent edit function, you can quickly and easily take the data you have and make your CataList pages informative, beautiful, and clean.
It’s time to think about upgrading your metadata to support Thema and ONIX 3.0.
Richard Nash explains how the publishing business is shifting from manufacturing to service, a change vastly more disruptive but also offering vastly greater opportunity than the shift from print to digital.
How well do you know the Canadian book buyer? At this session, BookNet Canada’s Noah Genner and Pamela Millar present key findings from BNC’s recent consumer research studies.
Learn how over 250 publishers, indie authors, and small presses are incorporating NetGalley into their marketing and publicity activities.
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.