The BookSmarts Podcast, with Joshua Tallent

Joshua Tallent
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The BookSmarts Podcast, with Joshua Tallent

Get smarter about your books! The BookSmarts podcast features discussions about the publishing industry and interviews with industry experts, deep thinkers, and doers, bringing you insights that will help you sell more books. Joshua Tallent is an acclaimed teacher and guide on the role of data in publishing, and a vocal advocate for high quality book metadata. In his spare time, Joshua enjoys playing complex board games, playing Minecraft, and fiddling with his 3D printer.

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    Episode 50: Rebecca Burgoyne on Lean Six Sigma for Knowledge Work

    Rebecca Burgoyne is the Executive Director of Business Systems Integrations for the United Methodist Publishing House. She joins the BookSmarts Podcast discuss what Lean Six Sigma is and why book publishers should be incorporating this type of knowledge work, along with the importance of understanding workflows, reducing waste, and more! Rebecca discussed Lean Six Sigma for Knowledge Work at the 2024 Publishing Innovation Forum. To learn more, feel free to reach out to her on LinkedIn or Twitter. You can also look into articles she's written on medium, including Lean Six Sigma for Knowledge Work!

    25 min

  2. 11/13/2024

    Episode 49: David Hetherington on Building Resilient Business Practices

    David Hetherington is the Vice President of Global Business Development at Books International, a leading provider of US and International book manufacturing, print and digital distribution services for the book publishing industry. With over 40 years of experience in the book publishing industry, David has served as a Board Member for the Book Industry Study Group, Book Manufacturers Institute, and PubWest, along with the Pace University Graduate School of Publishing. As a publishing veteran, David joins the BookSmarts Podcast to discuss how to establish practices that ensure your business is more resilient in times of crisis. We discuss how publishers should address common risks, how to prepare for those risks in advance, lessons learned from the pandemic as well as other known book publisher challenges, and the importance of building relationships in the industry to better prepare for potential crises. David will be speaking at the Association of Catholic Publishers event in April and will also have an upcoming BISG webinar about managing through the next crisis. To contact David, email d.hetherington@booksintl.com.

    21 min

  3. 10/21/2024

    Episode 48: Jason Brockwell on "Distribution in the Digital Age"

    Jason Brockwell is the President of National Book Network, one of the largest independent book distributors in the United States. With titles in nearly every bookstore category, NBN has helped a broad variety of publishers with their distribution needs since its founding in 1986. Before becoming an executive at the company, Jason was a national account manager calling on several large customers including Amazon and Barnes & Noble for NBN and also worked as a field sales rep in the the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. This episode of the BookSmarts Podcast was recorded live at the 2024 Publishing Innovation Forum. Jason Brockwell attended the conference to lead a discussion on "Distribution in the Digital Age: Supply Chains, Marketing, Sustainability, and More". We appreciate Jason allowing us to record this session and replay it for you on our podcast! Jason discusses how National Book Network helps publishers, how COVID has (still) affected the distribution industry, successful digital strategies for distributors, sustainability concerns, and more! National Book Network is an independent and full-service sales, marketing and distribution company serving book publishers from around the world. Click here to learn more!

    33 min

  4. 09/16/2024

    Episode 47: Benetech's Michael Johnson on Accessible Ebooks

    Michael Johnson is the Vice President of Content at Benetech. In this role, he works directly with publishers, conversion houses, technology platforms, retailers, and educational institutions to help them understand and implement processes that allow for fully accessible content to get from authors all the way through to the end reader. He also has a long-time relationship to publishing standards having sat on several ISO, NISO, BISG, and MARC standards committees throughout his career and currently sits on the Board of Directors for DAISY. With almost 40 years of experience in the technology, publishing, and distribution markets, Michael joins us on the BookSmarts Podcast to discuss the services that Benetech offers to create accessible ebooks, such as Bookshare, and provides advice on how to make books GCA (Global Certified Accessible) certified.Visit the following links to learn more: Benetech: benetech.org  Bookshare: bookshare.org  Born Accessible: bornaccessible.org

    24 min

  5. 08/19/2024

    Episode 46: Kristina Radke on Audiobooks with NetGalley

    Kristina Radke is the Vice President of Business Growth and Engagement at NetGalley, a service that helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies and audiobooks to book advocates and industry professionals, including reviewers, booksellers, librarians, educators, media/journalists, and other book trade professionals. With over 15 years of experience in book marketing, publicity, and client relationships, Kristina joins us on the BookSmarts Podcast to discuss NetGalley's expansion into the audiobook market, along with trends and strategies for publishers to be aware of when uploading audiobooks to NetGalley. Kristina will be providing training for NetGalley users and publishers at the Publishing Innovation Forum, September 24-26, in Nashville, TN! This conference is open to the entire publishing community and will focus on the many changes our industry has faced, and how to prepare and adapt for the future. Follow Kristina Radke on LinkedIn! Visit NetGalley.com for more information on their service.

    29 min

  6. 07/15/2024

    Episode 45: Emily Lyman on Building Brand Trust

    The BookSmarts Podcast, with Joshua Tallent

    22 min

  7. 06/17/2024

    Episode 44: Tyler Carey on the Modern Challenges of Publisher Workflows

    The BookSmarts Podcast, with Joshua Tallent

    25 min

  8. 05/20/2024

    Episode 43: Beat Barblan on the Role of Bowker in the Industry

    Beat Barblan is the General Manager of Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the United States and Australia. As a senior level publishing technology and international standards executive, Beat joins us on the BookSmarts Podcast to discuss Bowker's evolving role in the publishing industry and their efforts to support authors and publishers, as well as the important of metadata in book discoverability. To learn more about Bowker or to get in touch with Beat, visit myidentifiers.com.

    31 min
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Get smarter about your books! The BookSmarts podcast features discussions about the publishing industry and interviews with industry experts, deep thinkers, and doers, bringing you insights that will help you sell more books. Joshua Tallent is an acclaimed teacher and guide on the role of data in publishing, and a vocal advocate for high quality book metadata. In his spare time, Joshua enjoys playing complex board games, playing Minecraft, and fiddling with his 3D printer.

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