BNC BiblioShare is going gangbusters with over 230,000 EANs in the system, over 12,000 Canadian author markers and aggregators starting to experiment with the data. It seems like a good time to take stock.
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!
iPad: Ten Days In
I’ll make my confessions right off the start:
* I have too many Apple products already. This might make me a ‘fanboy’, but in my defense I’m not solely an Apple user.
* I bought my iPad on the “grey-market” and I’m in Canada so there are some limitations with apps and such (I know there are ways around the iTunes market restrictions…shock).
* I love it!
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 SalesData Tip #9: Get Your Log On
One Book, One Twitter: Voting Starts Monday!
“What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club?”—Jeff Howe in One Book, One Twitter … aka #1b1t
That’s the concept behind One Book, One Twitter (#1b1t ), and I think it’s pretty awesome.
One Book, One Twitter is the brainchild of Jeff Howe (@crowdsourcing ), and here’s how it works
BNC Tech Forum 2010 Session Videos
ISTC: A Duffer’s Perspective
I had the good fortune to attend BISG’s meeting on Tuesday “Focus on ISTC” which was a supplement to Michael Holdsworth’s recent paper:
The International Standard Text Code (ISTC): A Work in Progress / A Supply Chain Perspective
The short message for Canadian publishers and data suppliers is that the US and UK supply chain is taking the ISTC seriously and that Canadian publishers should be familiarizing themselves with it too. You might need to be using it soon.
Tech Forum 2010 Recap
Get Ready for the ISTC
The ISTC (International Standard Textual Code) is starting to get some serious interest from different areas in the book supply-chain.
