BISG Program on eBook Standards
July 10, 2009 | 12:30pm – 4:00pm | Hyatt Regency Chicago @ ALA Annual Conference The Book Industry Study Group will host a program the Friday before the ALA Conference in Chicago. You need not be...
View ArticleeBook Standards – summary of NISO/BISG program
Last Friday at ALA I was part of a NISO/BISG panel on the changing standards landscape. There were many speakers, each discussing various aspects of eBook standards like business models, ISBNs, epub,...
View ArticleTOC – Online Marketing, What is Working to Move Units
TOC – The real title of this presentation is…. So an Author, a Publisher, and a Reader Walk into a Bar… Feb. 24 Speakers: Malle Vallik, eHARLEQUIN, and Bob Carlton, LibreDigital Bob and Malle...
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iTunes Now Accepting eBooks! Take the Official iBooks Guided Tour Quick Note: BISG publishes new standard for comment PLA 2010 Conference: DRM-Free Downloadable (Sony) Music at the Library – 3/24/2010...
View ArticleBISG Study – 7% of eBook downloads are from a library
The Book Industry Study Group, along with a variety of corporate sponsors, launched a study in late 2009 about consumer attitudes toward e-book reading. Consumers were asked a series of questions in...
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Standards & Best Practices – Identifiers – Roadmap of Identifiers …BISG Video – Students Love AccessMyLibrary School Edition – Gale/Cengage Hands-On with a New e-Reader – NYTimes.com Library Labs...
View ArticleTOC – Literary Reviewing in the Digital Age
Literary Reviewing in the Digital Age Panelists: Bethanne Patrick, Book Maven Media, (Moderator), Bob Carlton, Kirkus Reviews, Ron Charles, Washington Post, Sarah Weinman, Publishers Marketplace Some...
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New BISG Policy Statement Endorses EPUB 3
Board approved Policy Statement supports EPUB 3 as the preferred global standard for multimedia publishing New York, NY (August 6, 2012) — The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), a leading U.S.-based...
View ArticleEnd Users Speak: Outcomes from Recent Surveys, from the NISO eBook Forum
The following are my notes from the NISO eBook Forum Program – End Users Speak: Outcomes from Recent Surveys. Best efforts were made to ensure accuracy. Presented by – Steve Paxhia, President, Beacon...
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