BookNet Canada is holding a conference this fall in Vancouver. Tech Forum West 2011: Reboot the Book is on October 18th in downtown Vancouver.
Data: Pushing It Out Is One Thing, but You Also Need to Get It Back
Who’s Attending Technology Forum 2011?
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…
This Week's BNC Tech Forum 2010 Video: Michael Tamblyn
The hits just keep on coming! This week you can view Michael Tamblyn, VP Content, Sales and Merchandising at Kobo, in his session “Lessons Learned from Shortcovers and Kobo: A Year in the What and How of Selling eBooks.” Lots of requests for this one. Michael talks frankly about what worked and what didn’t the past year at Kobo, and gives a sneak peek at the Kobo reader. Enjoy!
BNC Tech Forum 2010 Session Videos: Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks
We recorded all the 2010 Tech Forum sessions, and we’re posting one per week. This week it’s Dominique Raccah, Publisher of Sourcebooks. Dominique talks about creating vertical vision, content continuum, and “theatre of the mind” with enhanced ebooks. Watch the video, along with the others we’ve posted, at the BNC Tech Forum 2010 page.
BNC Tech Forum 2010 Session Videos
Tech Forum 2010 Recap
Tech Forum Fever!
This time next week we’ll be smack in the middle of BNC’s 2010 Tech Forum. It’s going to be a jam-packed day, so here’s a few tips to get the most out of your experience.
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Book Creation: Beyond the Printed Page
Genre-busting and cross-media narratives—we’ve seen it in other sectors of the entertainment industry with varying degrees of success. Offhand, I remember those webisodes of Battlestar Galactica I devoured during those long interseason hiatuses. Consumers are comfortable with cross-genre content, and it’s good to see book publishers taking risks to adapt to this new environment. Which made us wonder: what other forms of book creation are out there?
