Have you had a chance to browse the content library from our newly improved Tech Forum website? Now anyone, anywhere in the world has access to a repository of all the content we’ve created and shared as part of our event throughout the years.

From video recordings of virtual and in-person presentations to slides, podcast episodes, and blog posts, we’ve got a wealth of content in your preferred format.

In our previous instalment of this new blog series, we highlighted content related to ebooks, today the spotlight is on bookselling.

If you’re looking for something in particular, here’s a quick guide on how to leverage the power of our website’s search engine.

Retail panel: I opened a bookstore in the pandemic!

Our panel of retailers, all of whom launched their bookstore during the pandemic, discuss what they learned, what motivated them to start a bookstore, and what it was like to open their doors, virtual and physical, during a pandemic. The panelists also delve into how they establish themselves within their communities and how they forge relationships with their customers. Hear how their expectations stacked up to the reality of this new bookselling ecosystem.

Find the video of this session here and the video from the 2023 follow-up session here.

Building bridges, not walls: Successful publishing & retailing collaborations

Megan Byers, Owner/Manager at Babar Books, Chris Hall, Co-Owner at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Laura Ash, Co-owner at Another Story Bookshop, Athmika Punja, Director, Operations at Penguin Random House Canada, Ruth Linka, Associate Publisher at Orca Books and Morgen Young, Vice President at Ampersand Inc, as well as many publishers and booksellers across the country, have one goal: Get more books into the hands of readers. In this panel, they talk about their efforts in working together to support book sales in ways that are creative, collaborative, and constructive for all.

Find the video and other related content here.

Bionic bookselling

There’s a false dichotomy that’s running rampant in tech circles: that algorithmic discovery and human curation are in tension against one another. It’s just not true. Let’s go beyond “customers who bought X also bought Y” and shape a journey of discovery responsively by having humans do the bookselling work of identifying great reading experiences, while machines identify the readers who’ll most appreciate hearing about them. Discoverability is alive and well; what’s dead is the notion of a single user experience of any discovery journey.

Find the video and other related content here.

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