When I first stepped into the BookNet office, it felt a little like I had the soft-footed and sneaky steps of a technology fugitive (albeit a sweaty one). Oh sure I’d been through publishing school, where I had the opportunity to dive into the world of tech and books galore, but that was … well, school. I wasn’t one of those tech and data people in real life, was I?
Book Prices and Book Value
How Can You Single Out E-Singles?
The Canadian Book Consumer and Awareness
Keep Your Head in the Clouds: Publishers, SaaS, and Cloud Services
Yesterday, I tuned in to a Publishers Launch webinar, titled An Introduction to SaaS and Cloud Services for Book Publishers. If you found yourself scratching your head in bewilderment at more than one word in that title, you’re not alone. The term “cloud computing” is often spoken at conference these days, and it’s time to unpack the jargon and look at the key points of the webinar: the benefits and challenges of cloud systems for publishers.
Books to Fight Over: The 2012 PubFight Catalogue
Metadata ROI, Standards and Best Practices, A Look from Canada
The BISG just released a report on “Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata” that was jointly sponsored by BookNet Canada. Its purpose was to try to track what happens to metadata—how it’s created, how it’s transformed as it moves through the supply chain, where it works and what the problems are.
Mobile Payments: Enabling Community Outreach
Seeking a Made-in-Canada Solution to Library Ebook Lending
A Closer Look at 360
Yesterday, HarperCollins Publishers announced a new “global publishing program”, called HarperCollins 360. In their press release, HarperCollins said: “The goal of the initiative is to ensure that all books published by any division of HarperCollins around the world are available in print or digital format in all English-language markets.”