metadata

Thoughts on Tools of Change

by Sabrina EBooks

I had the pleasure of attending the first day of the O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference this year. It’s an annual conference that mainly covers digital publishing, and it’s nearly as good as Books in Browsers. There were a lot of great talks and some interesting startups and companies on exhibit, but I’m going to focus this [...]

Read now →

Trends in Publishing (Part 3)

by Sabrina EBooks
Book publishing trends 3

Part 3 of 3 of my Trends in Publishing post, which covers trends in metadata and collecting  publishing data. From the original post: “While researching my thesis project for my M.S. in publishing at NYU, I came across several interesting trends that I think will affect publishing. In fact, I’ve already seen some of these [...]

Read now →

Trends in Publishing (Part 2)

by Sabrina EBooks
Book publishing trends 2

Part 2 of 3 of my Trends in Publishing post, which covers subscription websites and gamification trends. From the original post: “While researching my thesis project for my M.S. in publishing at NYU, I came across several interesting trends that I think will affect publishing. In fact, I’ve already seen some of these at work [...]

Read now →

Trends in Publishing

by Sabrina EBooks
Book publishing trends

While researching my thesis project for my M.S. in publishing at NYU, I came across several interesting trends that I think will affect publishing. In fact, I’ve already seen some of these at work in the three months since I wrote the report, and I plan on using this information for my own startup, Write [...]

Read now →

EPUB3 v. Amazon KF8

by Sabrina EBooks
digital publishing

Great post by Peter Brantley on Publisher’s Weekly about the effect of the popularity of the new Google tablet, Nexus 7. Basically, he points out that Google is a company that endorses EPUB3 and open standards for e-books, such as with metadata, and if the Nexus 7 becomes a bigger player in the e-reading market, [...]

Read now →

More on Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata
Accurate Metadata for book and ebook sales

If you have some free time, you should watch the Making Your MetaData Better video. Around the 30 minute mark, Bob Oeste, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Johns Hopkins University Press starts his presentation, and he makes the whole concept of metadata entertaining. So, if you want to learn more about metadata, I highly recommend watching this video.

Read now →

ONIX and Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata
ONIX feed

This week was the last of the BISG’s series of webinars on metadata. The third and last webinar was Navigating the transition from ONIX 2.1 to 3.0, presented by Graham Bell, Chief Data Architect of EDItEUR. (You can read about the other two webinars on my posts The BISG’s Metadata Research Project and Understanding Metadata). 

Read now →

Understanding Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata
metadata effect on sales

Yesterday was part 2 of the BISG’s 3-part webcast series, Evolving Metadata Practices: Latest Research on Workflow, ROI, and the Transition to ONIX 3.0. Part two was called, Understanding Metadata ROI: Inisghts from Nielsen’s White Paper, The Link Between Metadata and Sales. Jonathan Nowell, from Nielsen BookData, presented data about the findings described in Nielsen’s white paper. [...]

Read now →

The BISG’s Metadata Research Project

by Sabrina Metadata

Today I listened to the first of three webinars hosted by the BISG about metadata. The series is called Evolving Metadata Practices, and today’s webinar was on A Research-Based Understanding of the Current Metadata Landscape: Full Results from BISG’s Metadata Research Project. 

Read now →

Understanding Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata

One of the first talks I went to at BookExpo America (BEA) this year was called, Understanding Metadata in the Digital Age. Bill Newlin, the publisher of Avalon, an imprint of Perseus, and Fran Toolan, the chief ignitor of Firebrand, presented. For this blog post, I will be focusing on external metadata (that goes in [...]

Read now →

BookExpo America 2012

by Sabrina Publishing
Book Expo America, BEA

Harlem globetrotters at BEA! This year’s BEA was exciting, and well, a little tiring. Next week I’ll be posting some of my highlights of the show, but for now I’d like to share a couple interesting tidbits. At this year’s show there were 1300 exhibitors and 22,365 industry professionals. This year was also the first time [...]

Read now →

EPUB3

by Sabrina EBooks

Yesterday I attended the first of a four-part webcast series hosted by Book Industry Study Group, called Understanding EPUB 3. Bill Kasdorf, vice president of Apex Solutions, and Bill McCoy, Executive Director of International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) were the two main panelists. Although much of EPUB 3 is an evolution of EPUB 2, there are [...]

Read now →

An Overview of Digital Book World 2012

by Sabrina Publishing
Digital Book World

Digital Book World (DBW) is an annual conference that, according to its website, “offers trade publishers hard data on the state of the book business as well as actionable, proven strategies for taking immediate advantage of opportunities as they develop in today’s publishing industry.” I was able to attend one day for free, in exchange [...]

Read now →