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World Book Night Gears Up for Big Day
With four weeks to go until World Book Night 2013, happening on April 23, WBN U.S. is launching weekly updates and reminders to volunteer givers, bookstores, libraries, and the publishing community.
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IDPF Debuts Readium Foundation and ePub 3 SDK
Readium.org, an open source initiative supporting ePub 3, has been organized into the Readium Foundation, a formal membership organization, that will debut at the Paris Book Fair and launch with about two dozen members.
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Guadalajara Book Fair Names Marisol Schulz Director
Following the March 14 resignation of Nubia Macías as the director of the Guadalajara Book Fair (FIL), a position she held for 10 years, Marisol Schulz, current director of LéaLA, the largest Spanish-language book fair un the U.S., was appoint to lead FIL. She will start April 1.
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Lots to Choose From at SXSW 2013
This was PW’s third year at SXSW Interactive, the annual technology festival in Austin, Tex., and it may have been the toughest year to cover.
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AWP Does Boston
The 2013 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference and Bookfair, which took place in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center and surrounding venues (including Trident Booksellers and Cafe and Newtonville Books) from March 7–9, drew publishers, authors, booksellers, and writing program students from as far away as Japan.
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Previewing the NYC Teen Author Festival
More than 90 authors have signed on for the event, which takes place from March 18 through March 24 at public venues and schools around the city.
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SXSW 2013: Marvel, Comixology and the Growth of Digital Comics
Comics were easy to spot at this years SXSW with high profile appearances by Comixology and Marvel as well as cartoonists Matthew Inman delivering a keynote address and Ted Rall offering a short presentation on models of syndication for political cartoonists.
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SOPA and Other Legal Issues Top Seminar Discussion
SOPA and PIPA are “dead in the water” and a take on the Capitol Records lawsuit against ReDigi were some of the issues touched on by speakers at Cowan Liebowitz & Latman’s 24th publishing seminar held in New York March 12.
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AWP Looks at Picture Book Writers in a Digital Age
The "Picture Book Writers in an E-Book and App Era" panel at this year's AWP Bookfair focused on how picture books are going digital.
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Society of Illustrators Gives MoCCA, MoCCA Fest a New Start
Annelle Miller, executive director of the Society of Illustrators talks to PW about taking over the The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and MoCCA Fest, its annual festival of indie comics.
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SXSW 2013: Self-Publishing, David Carr and the ‘Theology of Free’
Despite a year at SXSW Interactive that seems to have both a big spurt in attendance and fewer book publishing focused panels, there were still some useful discussions of the evolution of publishing in the digital era and its financial underpinnings.
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SXSW 2013: Photos From the Show
Photos from this year's tech conference.
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SXSW 2013: For Digital Long Form, Experimentation Ahead
How do independent digital long form publishers make money? For every publisher, a different story.
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SXSW 2013: All Our Coverage
All of PW's SXSW Interactive 2013 coverage, from a preview to events coverage and more.
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Call for Information: BEA Show Daily 2013
PW is inviting exhibiting publishers to submit story ideas and news of events at the show for possible coverage in this year's PW Show Daily.
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BEA Buzz Books Announced
BEA has revealed the authors and books that have been selected for this year’s Editors Buzz Forums in adult, young adult, and middle grade categories.
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Will Eisner Week To Celebrate the Graphic Novel
Will Eisner Week features a series of events to be held March 1 to March 10 in more than a dozen cities around the country to honor the work and career of the great comics innovator.
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What’s Brewing for Publishing at This Year’s Fest: SXSW 2013 Preview
What do authors Douglas Rushkoff, Bob Garfield, Mathew Inman, Amy Webb, Nate Silver, and Eddie Huang have in common? All of them will be attending SXSW Interactive, the annual technology festival in Austin, Tex., held this year from March 8–12.
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Reinvention & Resilience at Wi8 & CAMEX
Whether intended or not, resilience—in the face of two blizzards—served as the subtext for the American Booksellers Association’s eighth annual Winter Institute (Wi8) and the National Association of College Store’s 90th annual meeting and Campus Market Expo (CAMEX), held in Kansas City, Mo., the last weekend in February.
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Stranded Booksellers Finally Home After Unofficial Winter Institute 8.5
Booksellers and publishers unexpectedly stranded in Kansas City by a Tuesday storm held an unofficial "Wi8.5" in hotels and local restaurants, before finally heading home Wednesday. According to travel status updates posted on social media, all Wi8 attendees seem to have made it home by now.