Tim Middleton—BookNet’s Project Manager, Retail Liaison, and Official Halloween Candy Supplier—took to the streets on October 30th to take part in Toronto’s first annual Startup Open House. And of course, we never let Tim take a field trip without reporting back on his findings…
What are the Neighbours Building?
It’s time for CMPTO! Next Monday night, join us for an evening of good times, great folks, and all the publishing tech talk your inner geek can handle.
Data and Wisdom at MIP 2013
The tenth annual Making Information Pay (MIP) conference ran under the banner “Data. Information. Knowledge. Wisdom.” This annual, half-day conference from the Book Industry Study Group encouraged attendees to use data to make business decisions, a notion that BookNet firmly believes in and advocates.
Schooled at CMPTO
Is That a Kobo in Your Pocket?
Should Indies Sell E-Books?
Chris Tabor, Michael Neill, and Christoph Kapp entertained an audience of about 40 on Monday at the Store2012 conference. I had the pleasure of moderating this opinionated panel and I think—bias well in place—that it was a very good panel discussion on how independent retailers can participate in the conversation around digital books.
Mind-Control, Conscious Consumption, and Big Data: Caught in the mesh 2012 Conference
The mesh conference is a must-attend conference for tech people in the GTA who don’t have the budget to attend the TED conferences. mesh looks to provide a platform for people to explore the latest trends in society, technology, and emerging business models across a number of disciplines. The audience is as diverse the presenters. Here are some of the highlights and the whirlwind of ideas from day one.
The Future Is Now #CMPTO
Imagining the future of books and literate culture is a great pastime these days. Can we picture books as being anything other than what they are? Even though we see the disruption of digital all around us we still wear blinders and imagine e-readers as analogs for paper books. But really the book and its attributes have been under constant reimagination from the beginning. Which begs the question: where to next?
Welcome to the Digital Cafe: May I Take Your Order?
The dialogue below was overheard at a BNC digital catalogue cafe over the holidays. The patron was getting ready to order some tasty offerings from BNC CataList and was curious about the new feature available. We’ve added a new option for the PDF version of the digital catalogue, allowing retailers who want a print version of catalogues but don’t need all the detail available to them to print using the 5-per-page option.
Sit back and relax while we walk you through the update and show you what’s on the menu.
I Went to Boston for a Free Tablet
There were many, many acronyms that were being tossed around at the latest Gilbane Conference. Gilbane is a research and consulting company that looks at the emerging trends in technology and content creation. There is a strong focus on Tool Vendors at this conference, if you’re in the market for a new CMS. Or, if you’re a consultant who needs to know what’s available to manage marketing, content creation, content translation, globalization technologies and social network management, than this is also the conference for you.
Here are some key takeaways from the conference.
