As publishers, we’ve become experts at managing change, and in some cases we’ve come to embrace it. We’re no longer just experimenting; we’re strategizing and planning for the future.
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Wattpad and Sourcebooks have tested out a number of publishing experiments together, and in this session, they reveal what they’ve learned.
Len Vlahos (BISG) highlights results from Student Attitude reports, diving deep into how U.S. college students acquire, use, and interact with course material in both print and digital format.
Supersize your sales data basics by looking at how successful businesses leverage their data, how to use numbers to answer your questions, and how use your data for experimentation and flexibility.
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.
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