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ALA 2015: ALA Awards Will Eisner Library Grants
Libraries in Arizona and New York were each picked to receive nearly $7,000 in books and vouchers to promote graphic novels and build comics collections.
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ALA 2015: Gloria Steinem Says 'Librarians Saved My Life'
Steinem talked about her nomadic childhood and read from her upcoming memoir 'Diary of a Nomad: My Life on the Road.'
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ALA 2015: On E-books, Libraries Pushing For Options
Digital Content Working Group co-chair Carolyn Anthony told members that ALA officials were "continuing to dialogue" with the Big Five publishers over e-book prices.
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ALA 2015: Pelosi Honors Baltimore Librarians for 'Heroic' Work During Unrest
Librarians from the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Pennsylvania Avenue Branch, at the epicenter of the protests in Baltimore this spring, were honored for their work.
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ALA 2015: On a Historic Day, Roberta Kaplan Delivers a Powerful Keynote
Roberta Kaplan, who argued the historic defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, offered a powerful opening keynote speech at the 2015 ALA annual conference in San Francisco, just hours after a historic Supreme Court decision legalized same-sex marriage.
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ALA 2015: Sloan, Knight Foundation Grants For Digital Public Library of America
The two new awards, coupled with significant earlier support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, will help to establish the growth of DPLA’s "service hubs."
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ALA Annual Conference Kicks Off In San Francisco
The 2015 American Library Association Annual Conference kicks off today in San Francisco with more than 25,000 librarians, publishers and vendors expected to descend on the Bay Area.
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Books in Browsers Conference Goes on Hiatus
Books in Browsers, a small but highly-regarded tech-focused publishing conference, will skip 2015 while organizers consider its future.
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London Book Fair 2015: The Changing Scholarly Publisher
At a London Book Fair discussion, moderator Audrey McCulloch (CEO, ALPSP) asked a pointed question: has open access publishing just made scholarly publishing more complicated?
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London Book Fair 2015: At Digital Minds, Publishers Urged to Experiment, and Learn
The seventh annual Publishing for Digital Minds Conference kicked off the London Book Fair, with the main exhibits officially opening on Tuesday.
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ALA Midwinter 2015: Amid Winter Storms, ALA Attendance Dips
In all, 10,637attended, the lowest attendance since 2012, when 9,929 gathered in Dallas.
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ALA Midwinter Meeting Kicks Off in Chicago
The main conference program kicks off this afternoon with the popular Exhibits Roundtable/Booklist Author Forum, followed by an opening reception in the exhibit hall.
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DBW Panel : Can Publishers Take Advantage of Reader Data?
Publishers are awash in data about readers' habits. Now: what to do with it all?
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DBW: Amazon’s Grandinetti 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Kindle Unlimited
Amazon senior v-p Russ Grandinetti was genial and a bit elusive while fielding questions on author discontent and Amazon Publishing.
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Solid Attendance at 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting
More than 10,000 librarians gathered in Boston over the weekend for the show and, for the first time in three years, escaped without a blast of winter weather.
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Webcast: Comics: Breaking the Mold in Bookstores and Libraries
Join PW Graphic Novel Reviews editor Heidi MacDonald, Thursday November 13 at 1:00 pm on the PW webcast, in conversation with comics publishers from Animal Media, Dark Horse and Viz Media, about the changing readership of comics and graphic novels.
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ICv2 Confab Showcases New Comics Customers, Growing Sales
The ICv2 conference offered data on the new comics customer, the explosive growth of comics festivals, and a discussion of what this new customer is reading.
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Frankfurt's LitAg Draws Record Numbers for 2014 Fair
Some 308 agencies from 33 countries are booked for the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair, including 72 U.S. agencies.
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No Lack of Major Prose Houses at Comic-Con
Major book publishers such as Penguin Random House and HarperCollins are once again investing heavily in promotional materials for the five days of Comic-Con International: San Diego, held at the San Diego Convention Center.
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Comixology to Offer DRM-Free Backup Copies
Comixology's new DRM-free backup program is available to any publisher or self-publisher that chooses to make their books available in the program.
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