BookNet Canada

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been used for decades in other industries, like in car manufacturing and for commercial use as anti-theft systems. And while the technology could have applications in the book supply chain, it has never been put into practice. This month's host, Elizabeth Barker, and BookNet Canada Bibliographic Manager Tom Richardson discuss RFID's potential for tracking books and why the book industry will never adopt them.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/11/26/podcast-radio-frequency-identification-amp-the-publishing-industry)

For this month's podcast, we're talking with Simon Collinson, a former ebook developer, a small press publisher, and Content Sales Analyst at Rakuten Kobo, about an issue important to the health of the publishing industry, and especially important for those new to the industry: unpaid internships. We find out how he got involved in the #PayInterns campaign, why companies don't pay interns, some success stories, and how you can get involved in this issue.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/10/29/podcast-payinterns)

For the third and final episode in our summer series on innovative bookselling (see the first episode and the second episode at the links), we talk with bookstores who are findings ways to go beyond their core mandate of selling books. BookNet Canada Research Associate Shimona Hirchberg will also give an overview of the average indie bookseller in Canada. From school competitions to singles nights, they're finding creative ways to engage with their communities. Take a look at the highlights from our study, What's in Store: The State of Independent Bookselling in Canada 2018 .

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/9/24/podcast-innovative-bookselling-part-3-more-than-a-bookstore)

Learn more about the bookstores featured in this episode:

- The Bookshelf https://bookshelf.ca/

- Woozles https://woozles.com/

- Bolen Books https://www.bolen.bc.ca/

- A Different Booklist https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/

Read the full What's in Store report on our website, for free, at https://www.booknetcanada.ca/whats-in-store.

For the second episode in our summer series on innovative bookselling, we talk with Canadian booksellers who are dedicating space and time to supporting the writers in their communities, whether they're in grade school or working on their latest book.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/8/26/podcast-innovative-bookselling-part-2-writers-are-friends-not-food)

Find out more about the bookstores featured in this episode:

- Woozles Writes!: https://www.woozles.com/?q=p.woozles_writes_

- Queen Books: http://queenbooks.ca/

- The Bookshelf: https://bookshelf.ca/home

- A Different Booklist: https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/

For our three-part summer series, we're talking with booksellers across Canada who are proving that there's more than one way to sell a book. In part 1, we dive into some examples of outside-the-box partnerships where three brick-and-mortar bookstores work with a publisher, a podcast, and even another bookstore to reach new readers and sell more books.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/7/29/podcast-innovative-bookselling-part-1-outside-the-box-partnerships)

Episode links:

- Podcast: Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! https://www.mythsbaby.com/

- Briny Books http://www.brinybooks.ca/

- Queen Books http://queenbooks.ca/

- Woozles' Gift of Reading Program https://www.woozles.com/?q=p.gift_of_reading

- Weekly TinyLetter: Let's Sell Some Books https://tinyletter.com/booknet_canada

You can find the transcript of the episode here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/7/29/podcast-innovative-bookselling-part-1-outside-the-box-partnerships#transcript

We're pleased to introduce BookNet Canada's latest project: LibraryData.

While LibraryData is currently in beta only for select libraries who are providing their circulation and hold data, we're happy to share all the possibilities, realities, and general joy this new industry tool will bring.

In this episode, we're also sharing some highlights from our study on library use and book buying in Canada, Borrow, Buy, Read.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/6/24/podcast-libraries-and-their-data-introducing-librarydata-a-new-product-from-booknet-canada)

Show links:

LibraryData: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/library-data

Borrow, Buy, Read: Library Use and Book Buying in Canada: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/borrow-buy-read

Jumping on the basketball bandwagon: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/6/10/jumping-on-the-basketball-bandwagon

In this episode, BookNet Canada Research Associate Shimona Hirchberg shares some highlights from our new Demand for Diversity: A Survey of Canadian Readers study, alongside related clips from our recent Tech Forum 2019 conference that add some more context to the conversation on diversity in the Canadian book industry.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/5/28/podcast-demand-for-diversity)

Further reading:

- Read the full, free study, Demand for Diversity: A Survey of Canadian Readers: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/demand-for-diversity

- Continue the discussion with our blog post that includes more resources on the topic: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/5/17/further-reading-demand-for-diversity

- View videos from Tech Forum 2019 on the BookNet Canada YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRthkZj3fAc3DXfR7-Zl3sguRhXU_xPqX

In this month's episode, we talk about ISNI, the International Standard Name Identifier. It's an identifier with potential in the supply chain for your trading partners and as a marketing tool. Tom Richardson, Bibliographic Manager at BookNet Canada and Kendra Martin, Marketing Administrator at Dundurn Press (https://www.dundurn.com), join us to shed light on how ISNI is and isn't being used.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/4/30/podcast-isni-the-dream-identifier)

Jennifer Baker of the Minorities in Publishing podcast interviews Jael Richardson, author, columnist, and founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), on craft, publishing, and formulating equity within the literary community. This conversation was hosted live at Tech Forum on March 20, 2019.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/3/25/podcast-minorities-in-publishing-live-at-tech-forum-2019)

Here at BookNet, we've had children's titles on the mind since we opened up voting for our new Loan Stars Jr. list in November. The first Loan Stars Jr. list, consisting of Juvenile and Young Adult titles, will be released this March and while we're waiting to see what will make the inaugural list, there's been a lot of reflecting and bonding over memories of the books and library programs that led us to dedicate our lives to making them. It also raised questions about the state of children's publishing in Canada and the role that libraries play. So we decided to take our questions to children's librarian, Scott Robins, the Children's Services Specialist at the Don Mills branch of the Toronto Public Library.

(Find the transcript here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/2/25/podcast-a-childrens-librarian-on-the-state-of-childrens-publishing-in-canada)

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