BookNet Canada is holding a conference this fall in Vancouver. Tech Forum West 2011: Reboot the Book is on October 18th in downtown Vancouver.
Baptism by Fire: PubFighting with BNC Staffers
Do Publisher Apps Actually Make Sense?
Yesterday, Eoin Purcell wrote a blog post called “The Opportunity Apple Just Created For Publishers” pointing out the obvious that we somehow haven’t picked up on. But I’m skeptical that publishers are in a place where they can take advantage of the opportunity to sell directly through their own apps.
Tips and Tricks for BNC CataList
New catalogues are being added regularly now to BNC CataList, and we’re starting to hear from people about how they are already using the system. If you’re just getting started, here are three quick and easy tips that you can use to direct users to catalogue content, and to start getting the most out of that content on the catalogue pages.
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BookLamp and Whichbook: Two Solutions to the Online Book Recommendation Problem
We’ve all had a helpful bookseller recommend a book at some point. They have those freakish encyclopedia brains that remember every book they have on their shelves. The problem, though, is that more and more people are making purchasing decisions online and it is very difficult to replicate the helpful bookseller experience on the web. Two book recommendation engines—BookLamp and Whichbook—are trying to solve this problem.
Online Reviews Sell Books, So Let People Post Them
Customer reviews are becoming an increasingly common element of product sites. Customer reviews have been on Amazon.ca for as long as I can remember and they’re also on the Chapters website. Reader reviews fuel Goodreads. But why haven’t publishers jumped on board, especially those selling directly from their sites? And why aren’t customer reviews being built into a retailer website creation or redesign?
A Little Clarity: Google Didn't Launch an E-Reader
Google announced the first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader on their blog on Monday. Unfortunately, this post has spiralled-off into a series of misinformed articles stating that Google has launched an e-reader. They have not. I promise.Subscribe Me to Your Leader
Angry Robot—a British Sci-fi publisher—has recently made the headlines of some trade magazines by coming out with a subscription model for their e-books. Is the subscription model something that general trade publishing can act on?
