ONIX and Metadata
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...
View ArticleData Mining in the Publishing World
Big data is the latest buzz word in publishing, so it seems like an interesting issue to explore. Lots of new publishing related companies using data are springing up, such as Booklr, Hiptype, and...
View ArticleDigital and Social Book Discovery
Digital Book World hosted an interesting webcast today, called Finding Books Without Borders: Discoverability in a Digital and Social World. Two fairly new companies, Jellybooks and Readmill, talked...
View ArticleWebinar: Bridging the Digital Revenue Gap; Semantic Strategies for Fueling...
Recently I attended an online seminar by Aptara, Bridging the Digital Revenue Gap, that focused on the benefits of semantic strategies. Semantics focuses on the meaning of words. For example, the word...
View ArticleIndie Authors: Tracking Book Sales
Earning a living as an indie author is very difficult. There are no advances, and books compete with well-known authors as well as other forms of entertainment, such as movies, TV shows, and music. A...
View ArticleIndie Authors: Gathering Data and Marketing Your Work
You may already know, but I’m a big fan of data. It’s so useful, and can help streamline and make book marketing so much more effective, among other things. One great way to collect data is to do...
View ArticleData and Analytics for Marketing and Automation
Metrics, data, analytics. These are all related words that can really help authors effectively market. Matt Minoff wrote a great piece on Digiday, called “In Order to thrive, publishers must master...
View ArticleIndie Author Marketing: Analyzing Facebook and Twitter
I’m a big fan of data. I love reading about all the ways people are gathering analytics on books, how data helps drive decisions, and being able to know how effective people are at reaching out to...
View ArticleAnnotating and Having Fun With Data
Being able to share data in a number of different ways is one of the perks of living in the digital age. Warning: this post is for the fellow geeks out there. Annotation Online I’ll start with sharing...
View ArticleBook Insights Based on Data
Data is powerful, and can provide a lot of insights. Data also makes it easier to market books. For example, having good metadata makes it easier for readers to find certain books online. Here are some...
View ArticleDigital and Social Book Discovery
Digital Book World hosted an interesting webcast today, called Finding Books Without Borders: Discoverability in a Digital and Social World. Two fairly new companies, Jellybooks and Readmill, talked...
View ArticleWebinar: Bridging the Digital Revenue Gap; Semantic Strategies for Fueling...
Recently I attended an online seminar by Aptara, Bridging the Digital Revenue Gap, that focused on the benefits of semantic strategies. Semantics focuses on the meaning of words. For example, the word...
View ArticleIndie Authors: Tracking Book Sales
By Web Design Hot – http://www.webdesignhot.com/ [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsEarning a living as an indie author is very difficult. There are no...
View ArticleIndie Authors: Gathering Data and Marketing Your Work
You may already know, but I’m a big fan of data. It’s so useful, and can help streamline and make book marketing so much more effective, among other things. One great way to collect data is to do...
View ArticleIndie Author Marketing: Analyzing Facebook and Twitter
I’m a big fan of data. I love reading about all the ways people are gathering analytics on books, how data helps drive decisions, and being able to know how effective people are at reaching out to...
View ArticleBook Insights Based on Data
By Adrien1018 (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsData is powerful, and can provide a lot of insights. Data also makes it easier to market books....
View ArticleAnnotating and Having Fun With Data
By Everaldo Coelho (YellowIcon) [LGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html)], via Wikimedia CommonsBeing able to share data in a number of different ways is one of the perks of living in the digital...
View ArticleData and Analytics for Marketing and Automation
By Arbeck (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsMetrics, data, analytics. These are all related words that can really help authors effectively...
View ArticleA Look at Data and Metadata
Data is fascinating. It can inform and tell stories, and it can be fun to share information. Mashable created an infographic to display how much information is generated every minute (it’s a lot). So...
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