Wattpad and Sourcebooks have tested out a number of publishing experiments together, and in this session, they reveal what they’ve learned.
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A panel all about the Canadian market for e-singles
Susan Renouf and Ken Roberts talk about ebook lending in Canada.
A focused look at activities, purchasing influences, and behaviours of today’s book consumer. Chuck
This panel of librarians provides us with valuable insight into how libraries work, from budgets and collections to patron and e-lending statistics.
BookNet Canada is developing a Shopify plugin that will pull rich bibliographic data from BiblioShare into Shopify, allowing small businesses access to the same data available to larger retailers.
Insight into Sesame Workshop’s experience creating Sesame Street ebooks and apps as well as their global expansion in digital media.
Marvin is an ebook reader built in close collaboration with the reading community and is based on the premise that incredibly powerful mobile technologies can be used to create richer reading experiences.
Laura Dawson walks us through the publishing process from acquisition to final sale, demonstrating the output of metadata at each stage of the process.
Evan Schnittman (Bloomsbury) talks about why bestsellers dominate ebook sales and why the longtail is a long way from a reality for ebooks.
Learn about the different kinds of book recommendation engines are out there, how they work and what went into the creation of Discovereads
BookNet CEO Noah Genner presents BookNet Canada’s most recent consumer insights.