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How Do Canadians Spend Their Free Time?

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BookNet Canada has fielded a consumer panel in February for the last two years. The results from the panel are used to help inform the data we collect for our study, The Canadian Book Consumer. In the general consumer questionnaire, we ask approximately 750 English-speaking Canadians from across the country how they spend their leisure time, how much time they spend per day on those leisure activities, and, this year, what mobile devices they own (at least the ones that could potentially be used for e-reading).

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Thema: A New International Classification Scheme for Books

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What is Thema?

Thema is a new international book classification scheme, based on the BIC, and IBIC (the internationalized version of BIC), Subject Classification. IBIC will become Thema.

“Intended for use by all book industry stakeholders, Thema is a flexible standard that allows each market to retain its unique cultural voice while still presenting a unified hierarchy that rationalizes book categorization. The goal of Thema is to reduce confusion about subject codes for both upstream and downstream trading partners, in order to facilitate the sale of more books.”

 —From the Thema web site (www.panthema.org)

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Bullish on Content APIs

How do you make your content available to all those new mobile devices? How about linking your Content Management System with software X? What about linking your content more closely with your metadata? Perhaps the overall question is how do you make your content agile? There are numerous answers to all of these questions, but one way to get your data out there may be to make it available via an API.

Last fall at one of the CMPTO events Pearson did a presentation on some of their newly available content APIs and one or two of the projects being built using their APIs.

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Canadian Bookshelf, eh?

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If you haven’t already visited, Canadian Bookshelf, I would highly recommend you take a little time to do so. The site itself looks great and there is a plethora of great (Canadian) content already there with more to come. I won’t go into all the features and functions of the site here as you can just go and try it out or read about it on their blog, but I will point out why we like this project in one word: collaboration.