As BISG members gather for a 40th annual meeting, the organization’s incoming director. Brian O’Leary, is focused on ‘execution and strategies.’
Making Metadata Do More: Building Batches in Digital Printing
Metadata may not just be how your titles are being categorized, tracked, and marketed: It also can tell a printer how to print the book a reader has just ordered from a favorite retailer — and get it out the door.
Curation, Discovery, and Marketability: Intellogo Provides Tools for Self-Publishing Platforms
Intellogo Founder and CEO Neil Balthaser examines the challenge of discoverability and provides a solution for the flood of content on self-publishing platforms.
On Automating Metadata Extraction for Academic Publishing
SourceHOV argues that artificial intelligence can obviate the need for publishers to manually create metadata tags and significantly streamline workflows.
Simon & Schuster CEO Seeks to Master Data
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy is eagerly exploring new business models but acknowledges there’s still room for old-fashioned intuition in publishing.
Enhancements to Publisher Metadata that Improve Profitability
John Warren explains how process improvement, the use of keywords, and crowdsourcing metadata can improve publisher profitability and sales of books.
Employing Localized Data for Global Book Discovery
Jim Bryant draws examples from Trajectory.com bookselling partners in China to argue that superior, localized metadata increases book sales — everywhere.
How A Simple Metadata Fix Can Double Book Sales
Ronald Schild of Germany’s MVB discusses how research shows simple metadata fixes, like putting the language of a book in your metadata, can double sales.
Self-Publishing Day: German Indie Authors Unite
The second annual Self-Publishing Day in Münster, Germany, brought together authors, distributors and bestselling self-publishers like Poppy J. Anderson.
Trajectory: Like a Rocket Booster for Book Metadata
Using advanced language processing Trajectory adds nuanced detail to book metadata, offering analytics for intensity and sentiment, among other qualities.