BookNet Canada

Right.

I do my time at Indigo, I do some other startups, I run a not-for-profit called BookNet Canada, which was kind of like the Nielsen Book for the Canadian market, but owned by the publishers and retailers.

So started that up and ran that for six years.

At the end of that, we could see e-books were starting to become a bit of a thing, so this would be 2007, 2008.

Hello and welcome to the BookNet Canada podcast.

I'm Ainsley Sparks, your host for this episode.

There's a lot of talk about AI everywhere you look lately.

I've pulled out clips from both of their presentations to give you a glimpse of the content in each.

Before we get to them though, if you want to know more about how the book industry is using AI, you can read the newly released results from the AI use across the North American Book Industry Survey.

BookNet Canada and the Book Industry Study Group partnered to take the temperature of AI adoption, use, and concerns in the book industry, It's an interesting read, and Tech Forum will be running a webinar that shares the Canada-specific data on October 27th.

You can sign up at the link in the show notes if you'd like to learn more about that.

Okay, first let's hear what Tricia McCraney had to say about metadata and AI.