YA is really shaking up the BISAC world with an important announcement today! YA and juvenille have officially split. Read on to discover changes that impact every level of the supply chain and what you can be doing to transition!
Introducing BNC's BISAC to Thema Translator
Shiny New BiblioShare Webform Features
We’ve made a few improvements to BiblioShare Webform based on great feedback from publishers who use the tool. We’ve added new fields to give you broader access to the ONIX standard and – for you CataList users – to make some data easier to transfer to BNC CataList. We’ve also added new selection functionality to help you customize your exports. Read on for a short run-through of the major changes that are now available on the site.
#CMPTO Attention to Retail
It’s our last Code Meet Print TO of the year, and we’re turning our attention to those who work up an especially good sweat in December: retailers! We also have a brand new venue for this round, the lovely Hotel Ocho.
The New Reading Experience: BiB IV
Last week at Books in Browsers IV, Baldur Bjarnason gave a talk titled Interactivity Is What You Do that I kept referring back to over the two days of sessions. He pointed out that interactive media isn’t what you watch, hear or read, but is “composed of the meaningful actions the user takes while interacting with your work.”
There are two affirming ideas in this statement. One is that “meaningful actions” has a wide enough scope to include all behaviour. Second is that producers of interactive works build an entire experience, not simply an object, for an audience.BiB 2013, Here I Come
This is a short note to say that I’m headed to Books in Browsers , which takes place in San Francisco from October 24-26. If you are too then definitely reach out and say hello!
If You Build It, They Will Build
As the book industry focuses on reaching web-enabled readers, there’s an increasing need for technologies, like apps and APIs, that can be built quickly and altered often. This is why last month, a week before BookExpo America, New York played host to a significant publishing event: the Publishing Hackathon!
#CMPTO Wrap Up: Start Your Engines!
CMPTO: Start Your Engines!
Tools of Change 2013 Wrap-Up
I spent last week at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference in New York getting wise to what publishers, authors, and publishing service providers are thinking about when they look at the road ahead for the book industry. A theme that really stood out for me was one of sharing. What challenges do we face with different types of sharing and what ideas do people have about them? I’d like to focus on some talks that certainly did their bit in answering this question.
