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Savannah Book Festival Charms Attendees
Over this past President’s Day weekend in Georgia, more than 10,000 people gathered in Telfair Square to celebrate the Savannah Book Festival (SBF).
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TOC 2013: Startups, Sharing, And the Future of Publishing
O’Reilly Media’s annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference finished its seventh year doing what it does best—highlighting trends, identifying new businesses and startups looking to offer books and other content to a global market of readers in new ways, while also trying to offer a broad perspective on an industry in the midst of a “disruptive” transition from print to digital.
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JIBF Brings Crowds, Talk of Israel's Retail Discount Wars
In various talks at the Jersualem Book Fair, which closed on Wednesday, a number of challenges were raised, as well as concerns about the future.
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World Book Night Announces Milestones
World Book Night, which will give away half a million free books on April 23, 2013, announced that giver applications for this year closed two weeks ahead of last year’s deadline with all targets met for an ideal number of qualified givers.
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Jerusalem Book Fair Kicks Off
The Jerusalem International Book Fair celebrated its jubilee year, opening up its 26th biennial event on February 10, and the first in 30 years without its charismatic and beloved chairman Zev Birger at its helm.
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Philly's African American Children's Book Fair Marks 21 Years
Over 21 nationally known authors and illustrators, along with 2,500 people, attended the 21st Annual African American Children's Book Fair in Philadelphia.
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ReDigi Takes Stage at CEO Roundtable
At Monday's CEO Roundtable, co-hosted by Tools of Change and Publishers Weekly, ReDigi Inc. founder John Ossenmacher talked about his company, which offers a new platform for consumers to re-sell their digital goods, particularly content.
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Self-Publishers: Author (R)evolution Live Streamed for Free
Author (R)evolution, the full day conference for self-publishers that kicks off O'Reilly's Tools of Change, is being streamed live for the first time and is available to anyone who provides an email address.
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High-Energy Attendees Crowd the Aisles at Toy Fair 2013
“Delayed by the Storm” placards marked a few booths on the opening day of the 2013 New York International Toy Fair at the Javits Center on Sunday, including that of Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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ALA Midwinter 2013: Sunny in Seattle
After a tough few years of lagging budgets, e-book battles, and questions about their future, there was a palpable sense of momentum among librarians at the American Library Association’s 2013 Midwinter Meeting held January 25–29 in Seattle.
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ALA Midwinter 2013: In Keynote, Caroline Kennedy Rallies Librarians
In her keynote speech at ALA, Caroline Kennedy called librarians "levers for positive change in their communities."
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ALA Midwinter 2013: ALA Creates E-book Scorecard
When it comes to e-books, publishers may soon be getting report cards from libraries. That’s because, late last week, in conjunction with the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, the American Library Association released a “Business Model Scorecard” to help libraries evaluate the myriad licensing terms under which e-books are being offered to libraries.
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ALA Midwinter 2013: Next Up, Pew Will Look at Library ‘Marketing’
At the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Lee Rainie, executive director of the Pew Internet and American Life project told librarians that the results of a recently released Pew survey shows that they’ve done a good job carrying their brand forward into the digital age. And in the next phase Rainie said Pew would look at creating a “Library User Segmentation Typology,” or, roughly translated, a marketing report.
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ALA Midwinter 2013: Northwest Authors and the Role of Libraries
For all the talk about the changing digital world and its impact on the future of libraries and reading, the opening session of the 2013 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting focused on a subject librarians know well: authors.
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Getting the Buzz on Winter Institute 8
The American Booksellers Association’s annual Winter Institute has grown since its launch in Long Beach, Calif., in 2006, as a West Coast alternative to BookExpo America in the East.
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Touching the Bases at Digital Book World
From corporate consolidation to book discoverability, to how books are produced and bought, to the proliferation of new devices to read them on, this year’s Digital Book World was a whirlwind tour of the industry’s changing landscape.
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NAIBA Sets 2013 Trade Show Dates
The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association will hold its 2013 fall trade show in New Jersey again this year at the Somerset Doubletreefrom September 30-October 2.
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Pulpwood Queens Book Club Readies for Girlfriend Weekend
When Kathy Patrick founded the Pulpwood Queens book club in early 2000, she did so with a handful of members and a simple idea: “for the love of books.”
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GABBS Boston Changes Hands
Advisor Communications in Framingham, Mass., acquired the three-year-old bargain book show GABBS Boston and will change the name to the Boston Remainder & Overstock Show.
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Biographers Debate: When Tell-Alls Tell Too Much (or Not Enough)
With the David Petraeus-Paula Broadwell debacle as a backdrop, on December 10, The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center hosted a discussion on the ethics of biography, namely, the multiform ways in which a biographer is morally accountable to his or her subject.
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