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BookNet Canada

From BookNet Canada, the latest on book publishing, data, retail, and technology.

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Making Brazilian literature accessible

Making Brazilian literature accessible

Isadora Cal goes over how in Brazil, a country with so many adversities in all areas, accessible publishing is being tac... Read more

21 May 2020

59mins

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Canadian Leisure & Reading Study 2020

Canadian Leisure & Reading Study 2020

The results for our annual Canadian Leisure and Reading survey are in! BookNet Canada President & CEO Noah Genner an... Read more

23 Apr 2020

14mins

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Podcasting for beginners

Podcasting for beginners

What better time than the present to start a podcast? Learn how to get started and create the best podcast possible with... Read more

31 Mar 2020

28mins

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Finding empowerment in the book industry with Cynthia Pong

Finding empowerment in the book industry with Cynthia Pong

Cynthia Pong, feminist career strategist, founder of Embrace Change, and Tech Forum 2020 speaker, joins us this month to... Read more

19 Feb 2020

29mins

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New BISAC codes for Indigenous books

New BISAC codes for Indigenous books

With the recent release of new BISAC subject codes for 2019, host Elizabeth Barker goes over the changes, what they mean... Read more

27 Jan 2020

51mins

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A look back at the decade

A look back at the decade

In this episode, we talk to BookNet President and CEO, Noah Genner, about the decade in review. What were the biggest tr... Read more

16 Dec 2019

30mins

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Radio-frequency identification & the publishing industry

Radio-frequency identification & the publishing industry

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) has been used for decades in other industries, like in car manufacturing and for c... Read more

25 Nov 2019

29mins

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Innovative bookselling, part 3: More than a bookstore

Innovative bookselling, part 3: More than a bookstore

For the third and final episode in our summer series on innovative bookselling (see the first episode and the second epi... Read more

23 Sep 2019

38mins

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Innovative bookselling, part 2: Writers are friends, not food

Innovative bookselling, part 2: Writers are friends, not food

For the second episode in our summer series on innovative bookselling, we talk with Canadian booksellers who are dedicat... Read more

26 Aug 2019

18mins

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Innovative bookselling, part 1: Outside-the-box partnerships

Innovative bookselling, part 1: Outside-the-box partnerships

For our three-part summer series, we're talking with booksellers across Canada who are proving that there's more than on... Read more

29 Jul 2019

24mins

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Libraries and their data: Introducing LibraryData a new product from BookNet Canada

Libraries and their data: Introducing LibraryData a new product from BookNet Canada

We're pleased to introduce BookNet Canada's latest project: LibraryData.While LibraryData is currently in beta only for ... Read more

24 Jun 2019

18mins

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Minorities in Publishing: Live at Tech Forum 2019

Minorities in Publishing: Live at Tech Forum 2019

Jennifer Baker of the Minorities in Publishing podcast interviews Jael Richardson, author, columnist, and founder of the... Read more

25 Mar 2019

43mins

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Bestselling & award-winning books of 2018

Bestselling & award-winning books of 2018

For our last episode of 2018, we share the bestselling Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Juvenile/YA books of the year, discuss ... Read more

14 Dec 2018

11mins

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The growth of audiobook listening and production in 2018

The growth of audiobook listening and production in 2018

It's been two eventful years since we published our last study on audiobook listening in Canada, so we're back with upda... Read more

29 Oct 2018

14mins

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More than just books: Why libraries should not be overlooked

More than just books: Why libraries should not be overlooked

From drag queens to Netflix to registered therapy dogs to power tools, Canada's libraries offer patrons more than just b... Read more

27 Aug 2018

37mins

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Batten down the hatches: How we're combatting book piracy

Batten down the hatches: How we're combatting book piracy

How big is the book piracy issue, who's pirating them, and why? We answer these questions, offer other (legal!) ways of ... Read more

28 May 2018

40mins

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Highlights from Tech Forum & ebookcraft 2018

Highlights from Tech Forum & ebookcraft 2018

This month we're looking back at our biggest book-publishing-meets-technology conference ever. From March 21-23, 2018, h... Read more

19 Apr 2018

20mins

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[Repeat] We Read Too: Diversifying Publishing with Kaya Thomas

[Repeat] We Read Too: Diversifying Publishing with Kaya Thomas

From the archives: While still in her undergrad at Dartmouth College, Kaya Thomas developed her first app: We Read Too, ... Read more

16 Mar 2018

27mins

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True Crime

True Crime

Murder, organized crime, and....well, more murder. This month's episode is all about true crime, from recent bestsellers... Read more

31 Oct 2017

40mins

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The Irresistible Opportunity: McSweeney's Approach to Repurposing Content

The Irresistible Opportunity: McSweeney's Approach to Repurposing Content

When other resources are in short supply, the one thing all publishers always have more than enough of is content. So ho... Read more

15 Mar 2017

19mins

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