We’re closing out our series of posts on the publishing supply chain with a few tips for producing castoffs. Be sure to check out our breakdown of the BISG supply chain survey and our interview with veteran publishing guru Ken Brooks. If you tell someone outside the publishing world that…

The publishing industry has been facing ongoing labor and supply shortages, but fortunately we have folks like Ken Brooks to help us out. Ken has been a voice for innovation in the publishing industry for years and we aren’t the first to ask him to speak about the issues at…

Publishing is experiencing a burnout crisis — this is obvious — but there are aspects to this “great resignation” that seem unique to the publishing industry, where it’s not uncommon to receive a resignation letter that starts with an employee expressing their passion for what they do, their love for…

Thursday, May 20, 2021 is the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), a yearly event celebrated around the globe and created with the goal of enlightening and inspiring people about digital accessibility. …

Adopting accessibility standards into workflows creates a more inclusive reader experience and community, but beyond adoption there is a much greater goal to accessibility in content creation and production. Ka Li, Accessibility Analyst at both Fable Tech Labs and NNELS, has worked to educate and provide feedback on disability-inclusive design…

Content accessibility standards are a tool for inclusion — that is, for including as many folks as possible across the spectrum of ability, gender, and ethnicity in your potential base of users or readers. And as Rachel Comerford, the Senior Director of Content Standards and Accessibility at Macmillan Learning, astutely…

I am not a programmer. At the best of times I am a failed literary scholar turned publishing student, which by way of pandemic has led me here writing about technology within the field of publishing. Strange how things work out. The kind of automation I am interested in is…

When we decided to kick the year off on the Hederis blog with a focus on automation — what it is, how it’s implemented, and how book publishers can benefit from it —it wasn’t long into brainstorming ideas before Dave Cramer’s name came up. Dave is a Senior Digital Publishing…

AI is coming. AI is here. In the popular press, you read a lot of stuff about the future of artificial intelligence, and I do believe, as do many others, that it’s a technology that has a long way to go before it lives up to the hype (and the…