We’ve got two important subject-classification related announcements for you.
CMPTO Goes Retail
Last week, we hosted CMPTO’s very first retail edition. It was about time we got down to business with the fascinating new avenues of retail that are being introduced or re-introduced in the book market. We had three amazing speakers from vastly different backgrounds and organizations who each brought their own take on what retail means to them and their work.
E-Book Trends Change with the Seasons
An Inspiring Example of B2C Marketing: blogInk
Making a Bundle
When publishers talk about bundles, they’re usually referring to is multiple formats of the same work sold as a package—usually a print version together with a digital version for download. The success of DVDs with digital download means this is definitely a worthwhile conversation to be having, but remember that bundling can also refer to bundles of different titles—and this model is looking more and more promising.
The World in the Palm of Your Hand: A New App by Collins
Thank Collins, in conjunction with The Other Media, for bringing us Atlas by Collins, a continually updated app that allows iPhone and iPad users to discover their surrounding world—near and far—through three-dimensional colour-coded (and pretty!) maps.
Introducing BNC's BiblioShare Webform
In keeping with the launch-happy theme we’ve got going around here these days, we have another exciting product to send your way! BookNet Canada has launched BiblioShare Webform, an easy-to-use web tool that allows small operations to create and manage book metadata, without messing around with complex ONIX files.
Thema: A New International Classification Scheme for Books
What is Thema?
Thema is a new international book classification scheme, based on the BIC, and IBIC (the internationalized version of BIC), Subject Classification. IBIC will become Thema.
“Intended for use by all book industry stakeholders, Thema is a flexible standard that allows each market to retain its unique cultural voice while still presenting a unified hierarchy that rationalizes book categorization. The goal of Thema is to reduce confusion about subject codes for both upstream and downstream trading partners, in order to facilitate the sale of more books.”
—From the Thema web site (www.panthema.org)
Meet the Canadian Book Buyer
Today, BookNet Canada releases it’s first Consumer Study examining book buyers in Canada and we are pleased as punch. This was the first time we dove directly into consumer data by taking a look at not only what consumers are purchasing but where they are buying, what they are paying and how they feel about it.
