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Gladwell, Otis Chandler To Speak at IDPF Digital Book 2013
The theme at this year's IDPF Digital Book 2013 conference, held May 29-30 at the Javits Center, is Advancing Publishing in a Digital World and features speakers Otis Chandler, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Aiken, Allen Lau, Sylvia Day, Jennifer Armentrout, and more.
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The Great Books Summer Program Expands to England
In its twelfth year, the summer educational program, The Great Books Summer Program will expand to England with a program at The University of Oxford.
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World Book Night U.S. Brings 32% Jump In Sales
The numbers are in from World Book Night U.S., which took place on April 23 and aims to promote reading across the country.
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PW Event: Trends in Consumer Book-Buying
As part of PW's ongiong Breakfast Series, the magazine's co-editorial director Jim Milliot and Bowker’s U.S. director of market research, Carl Kulo, will be presenting data from the soon-to-be released 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics & Buying Behaviors Annual Review at an event on Wednesday, May 8.
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World Book Night 2013 Stats: More College Student Involvement
World Book Night announced preliminary statistics on where WBN book givers went on April 23, reporting a third each in school, health and service, and general ‘around town’ categories.
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2013 L.A. Times Festival of Books: An Abundance of Children's Events
The 18th L.A. Times Festival of Books, held April 20-21, on the University of Southern California campus, had scores of bestselling authors in attendance, and offered dozens of kid-centric book signings, panels and interviews.
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Book Tour Held on Historic Chancellorsville Battlefield
Skip Tucker to hold press conference on the site of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s final battle, at Chancellorsville Battlefield in Spotsylvania, Va., to officially announce the paperback release of his novel, Pale Blue Light.
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L.A. Times Festival of Books Draws Tens of Thousands
Tens of thousands of book lovers flocked to the USC campus April 20 and 21 for the L.A. Times Festival of Books.
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Celebration of Southern Literature Proves Serendipitous
The 17th biennial Celebration of Southern Literature in Chattanooga, TN, ushered in a youthful audience and chance meetings over the weekend.
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BISG's Making Information Pay Set for May 15
BISG's Making Information Pay--a concise, half-day conference--intended to provide useful direction to thousands of book publishing professionals looking to build more profitable businesses through data-first thinking, will take place at NYU's Kimmel Center on May 15, 2013 from 9am-12:30pm. This year's conference includes an appearance by Hilary Mason and 2012 data from BookStats. Full program and registration is here.
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Kids Comic Con Returns May 11 to Bronx Community College
The seventh annual Kids Comic Con will kick off on May 11 with more than 30 exhibitors, including Viz Media, Papercutz, Archie Comics, Jim Henson/Sesame Street and Scholastic Book Fairs, in addition to a slate of panels, film screenings and hands-on workshops on creating comics.
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2013 Yale Publishing Course To Focus on Disruption in Digital Age
The curriculum for this year’s Yale Publishing Course (YPC) sessions, Leadership Strategies in Magazine & Digital Publishing (July 14 – 19) and Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing (July 21 – 26), concentrates intensively on building leadership skills and understanding recent disruptions in the industry.
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The MoCCA Arts Fest Returns Under New Management
The MoCCA Arts Festival, The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual celebration of small press and self-published comics, opened over the weekend at the historic Lexington Avenue Armory to exhibitors and crowds of several thousand fans anxious to see a show revamped and under new management.
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Month-long Literary Festival Filling Twin Cities Coffee Houses
Cracked Walnut, a two-year-old Twin Cities reading series, is sponsoring a month-long literary festival, with more than 100 authors reading from their work in 21 area coffee houses.
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World Book Night Announces Author Kick-Off Events
World Book Night has now scheduled a total of 27 events around the country between April 19 and 23 in libraries or bookstores, or in three cases, a local club or a brewery.
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Breaking Digital Ground: E-books and Small Press Literary Publishers
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference (AWP) began decades ago as a meet-up for academic creative writing departments, students, and writers.
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Program and Speakers Announced for Digital Book 2013
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has announced the preliminary program and speakers for Digital Book 2013, to be held in partnership with BEA on May 29-30 in New York.
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World Book Night 2013 Reveals Giver Map
News of the first of the Monday, April 22 Kick Off Celebrations are now up at World Book Night’s Facebook page.
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Photo Essay: NYC Teen Authors Festival
Last week's New York City Teen Author Festival attracted 1,000 attendees to events featuring some 90 authors over the course of the seven days.
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Bologna 2013: All Our Coverage
Catch up on all the goings on at the Bologna Children's Book Fair with PW's coverage of the show, collected here.