Our registration list continues to grow. People from all across Canada and part of the US are coming to Toronto for BookNet Canada’s fifth annual Technology Forum. Our attendees will be a diverse group of professionals from trade and academic publishers, consulting companies, booksellers, organizations and service suppliers.
Check out our growing list of attendees…
Tools of Change 2011
Tips for Tools of Change
Thinking about going to Tools of Change for Publishing in February? Not many conferences feature both CanLit queen Margaret Atwood and ‘Chief Cheezburger’ Ben Huh on their keynote roster. If you are heading to the Big Apple to check out this year’s sessions, here are some tips from my first TOC experience last year.
BookCamp Hat Trick
BookCamp Vancouver (#bcvan10 ) marked my third BookCamp of the year (with previous editions taking place in Toronto and Halifax ). I also led sessions at all of them. So, how do they compare?
What I Did on My Trip Out West
BookCamp Vancouver 2010 #BCVAN10
Going to BookCamp Vancouver next week? Tim and I will be there representing BNC, so feel free to flag us down if you want to talk.
What’s a BookCamp? Well let me tell you…
Da PubFight Is On!
I’ll admit it I’ve never won PubFight, I’m last in my fantasy baseball pool and I didn’t win my hockey pool either, but hope springs eternal. Tis a new season and all past out-of-stock-transgressions are forgotten. My new mantra this year…’Keep’em in stock’.
Printed Catalogues Makin’ My Life Difficult
BookCamp Halifax (#bchfx10): The Value of Community
Super Saturday a Little More Suped Up
On Saturday I attended the CBA Super Saturday conference for indie booksellers. I sat in on a discussion that sparked a recurring dream of mine: Finding Hidden Money. Bronwyn Addico and Mandy Brouse (the winner of this year’s inaugural Chase Paymentech Young Bookseller of the Year), from Words Worth Books gave this talk and they were mostly talking about running events and the way that events should be run. First of all the similarities to the idea of providing local news in a hyperlocal model came to mind.
