Sales reps: Elle Woods is here to give you some tips on how to go forth and conquer your sales pitches with custom catalogues.
Books (and catalogues) for Everybody
Books For Everybody (BFE) publishes twice-a-year lists of highly recommended titles from independent booksellers. Each spring and fall, BFE offers up a selection of upcoming titles so indie retailers can review, place advance orders, and prepare in-store promotions and sales strategies.
This year, we used CataList to build a handy 2015 BFE catalogue. Take a look and order your copies today!
BNC CataList Hack: Saving catalogues for offline use on your iPad
In this post, we show you how to create offline versions of your catalogues so you can have a backup should you lose that precious wifi connection (or just want to save on data charges).
The Safari browser on your iPad has a built-in Reading List that helps you save webpages for offline access. Here’s how we use it for BNC CataList.
Finding Canadian books, award-winners, and more on CataList
CataList can help librarians quickly find and order Canadian print and digital books, keep on top of titles that are nominated for or win awards, and easily access free e-galleys for upcoming titles. Plus, a free CataList library account also lets you export MARC records from catalogues so that new books are even easier to add to your system. Get all the details on these CataList goodies below…
Library Sales, Timely Metadata, and the Canadian Publisher
BookNet Canada was recently in conversation with the Toronto Public Library about its use of CataList and online catalogues. One interesting point that came up was how the TPL needs online catalogue content earlier (especially from Canadian publishers) in order to facilitate their ordering process. Thanks to Valerie Casselman, Senior Collections Specialist, Adult Content, for contributing this guest post.Ordering Books with CataList E-catalogues
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Finding Award-Winners on CataList
Canadians love their books. A recent National Reading Campaign survey found that 95% of Canadians read for pleasure, and books are their preferred reading format. But with so much out there to read, how does anyone decide what to pick up next?
Often, avid readers’ holiday wishlists are filled with the winners and finalists of Canadian book awards such as Canada Reads, the Giller Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Awards. To make it easy for retailers and libraries to find and order Canadian award finalists, we’ve created catalogues for all the major awards on BNC CataList.
Library Pricing for Digital Products
With the growing list of ebooks being made available to libraries for patron loan, we’ve seen a lot of experimentation with different publisher payment models, from loan limitations to different up-front pricing for libraries with unlimited loan licensing. If your publishing house has opted for this second option — or even if you have the same pricing for consumer and library purchase, but you want to be clear about this to the supply chain — how do you indicate this in your ONIX record?
Beyond Browsing and Buying with CataList
BNC CataList is a powerful tool for retailers to discover and order new titles. But did you know it also has some great features to help retailers sell more books? We’ve pulled together a few of our favourite custom uses of CataList for retailers… though publishers and librarians may learn a new trick or two as well.
