BookNet Canada

From the archives: While still in her undergrad at Dartmouth College, Kaya Thomas developed her first app: We Read Too, a book resource application that showcases a directory of hundreds of children's and young adult fiction books written by and for people of colour, which contains over 600 books and has over 4,000 downloads. Kaya has held software engineering internships at Time Inc. and Intuit working on mobile applications. She was a CODE2040 2015 Fellow and is a technical volunteer mentor for Black Girls Code. For her work in education and technology, Kaya was honoured by Michelle Obama at the 2015 Black Girls Rock Awards. She joins us to talk about her favourite books, breaking into coding, and diversifying the publishing industry.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2016/3/22/podcast-we-read-too).

In this presentation from last year's ebookcraft conference in Toronto, Amanda Karby from Michigan Publishing Services and Kristin Waites from The MIT Press shared the 7 milestones on their roadmap for accessibility, complete with details and examples from their own journeys putting those steps into action at their respective presses. From task forces to audits, they've got practical steps you can start taking today to make sure you're on the road towards producing accessible ebooks.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2018/2/26/podcast-creating-a-roadmap-for-accessibility-in-ebooks).

Interested in this year's ebookcraft conference on March 21-22 in Toronto? Learn more and get tickets: http://ebookcraft.booknetcanada.ca

Nastaran Bisheban, VP of Global Technology Delivery at Kobo, talks about their recently-launched audiobook program, their first audiobook original, and their future plans for audio content. And we speak to Book*hug's Hazel Millar about their record label that pairs authors with recording artists, Chaos & Star.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2018/1/29/podcast-audiobooks-and-audio-first-publishing).

Curious about some of the articles we reference? Find them here:

LiveMint: http://www.livemint.com/Companies/lObJNigyM1uKpaUB9V0dPJ/Audiobooks-could-be-the-next-big-thing-says-Penguin-Random.html

APA stats: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/73917-audiobooks-posted-double-digit-gains-in-sales-output.html

Quartz: https://qz.com/1190281/google-and-apple-are-trying-to-lure-ebook-and-audiobook-readers-away-from-amazon/

TechRadar: http://www.techradar.com/news/youll-soon-be-able-to-buy-ebooks-and-audiobooks-in-walmart

Chaos & Star: https://bookthug.ca/chaos-and-star-records/

TF: http://techforum.booknetcanada.ca/sessions/the-future-will-not-be-silent-audio-first-publishing/

We're nearing the end of the year and, like pretty much everyone else, feeling reflective about the past 12 months. And since we're BookNet, that includes how the past year has shaped up in terms of the Canadian book market. So this month we have BookNet president and CEO, Noah Genner, as our guest to chat about the state of the market, the biggest books of the year, the biggest shakeups in the industry, what we can expect for next year, and, of course, lots about Margaret Atwood.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/12/19/podcast-a-look-back-at-2017).

Our free webinar on bibliographic standards will be held on Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. ET. Find more info and register here: https://goo.gl/BxvSHv

This month we're talking with Léonicka Valcius about how to interrogate and rethink in-house processes and assumptions when publishing diverse books, including acquisitions, audience identification, setting priorities, and building in-house excitement.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/11/27/podcast-building-in-house-momentum-for-diverse-books).

Learn more about this topic at Tech Forum 2018: the largest tech-focused professional development event in the Canadian publishing industry. http://techforum.booknetcanada.ca/

Murder, organized crime, and....well, more murder. This month's episode is all about true crime, from recent bestsellers to the evolution of the genre. Featuring authors Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon and Peter Edwards, plus BookNet's Monique Mongeon.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/10/31/podcast-true-crime).

Curious about some of the articles we reference? Find them here:

NYT: Investigation Discovery Network Makes Crime Pay(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/business/media/investigation-discovery-network-makes-crime-pay.html)

Slate: The True Crime Memoir (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/08/the_true_crime_memoir_when_mfa_grads_and_literary_aspirants_write_true_crime.html)

Time: Murder shows — The New Soap Opera for Women? (http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/13/why-women-love-murder-shows/)

The Hairpin: Why are Women Obsessed with True Crime (https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/05/why-are-women-obsessed-with-true-crime/)

Buzzfeed: Scaachi Koul on why being "polite" often gets women killed (https://www.buzzfeed.com/scaachikoul/whats-your-favorite-murder)

The Atlantic: How a True Crime Podcast Became a Mental Health Support Group (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/the-true-crime-podcast-turned-mental-health-support-group/517200/)

Study – Captured by True Crime: Why are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers? (http://www.amandavicary.com/VicaryTrueCrime.pdf)

Variety: True Crime on the Rise on TV (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/manhunt-unabomber-menendez-brothers-the-keepers-unsolved-1202510421/)

Toronto Life: Jennifer Pan's Revenge (https://torontolife.com/city/crime/jennifer-pan-revenge/)

Second Story Press is serious about keywords. Allie Chenoweth, Marketing & Promotions Coordinator, joins us to talk about their approach on this month's podcast.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/9/25/podcast-keywords-and-second-story-press).

Links:

Demystifying the Inner Workings of Amazon Keywords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlaZ6xIuRnc

Google Ngram: https://books.google.com/ngrams

To help distract us from all our Game of Thrones feelings, we sat down with Evan Munday, children's author and Community Manager at TYPE Books, to discuss the influence of television adaptations on book buying habits of their viewers. Are viewers inclined to head towards bookstores after watching their favourite series? Do television tie-in covers matter? We talk stats, shows, and lots more.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/8/29/page-to-television-a-study-of-adaptations).

Find more details (and fun graphs!) at www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/8/29/page-to-television-a-study-of-adaptations.

To help celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, we sat down with Sue Carter, Editor-in-Chief at Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine for the book publishing industry, to talk about the current state of the publishing landscape and what challenges we're facing. We also discuss some statistics from our most recent research reports, including what book buyers think of Canadian books and who the most well known Canadian author is. And, of course, we speculate on what the book industry might look like in another 50 years.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/7/21/podcast-canadian-book-publishing-150-years-later).

Micah Bowers, Founder and CEO of Bluefire, was a speaker at ebookcraft 2017. His talk, titled Ebook Apps from the Inside Out, is an exploration of the past, present, and future evolution of ebook reading applications and how that impacts and informs the art and craft of creating ebooks. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2017/6/20/podcast-ebook-apps-from-the-inside-out).