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Smooth Sailing for the 2012 SCIBA Authors Feast and Trade Show Aboard the Queen Mary
The Queen Mary in Long Beach provides a festive backdrop for the 2012 SCIBA authors feast and trade show, which attracted more booksellers this year than last and a stellar group of authors to speak to the attendees
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AAP Doing Education Conference for New Employees
The Association of American Publishers is organizing a conference on October 24 centered on education called "Learning Solutions for Education: Young to Educational Publishing Conference 2012."
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20,000 Turn Out for the Southern Festival of Books
The digital Bookmobile and over 200 authors that included Junot Diaz, Gillian Flynn and R.L. Stine were among the attractions that drew about 20,000 people to the Southern Festival of Books, held October 12 -14 in Nashville’s Legislative Plaza.
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NCIBA’s New Venue is Just the Ticket for 2012 Trade Show
Moving to South San Francisco from Oakland after 25 years turned out to be a positive move for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association's trade show, held on October 11 and 12.
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Bouchercon 2012: Crime Fiction Rocks Cleveland
Cleveland played host to the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, an event for crime fiction authors and fans that drew approximately 1,500 registered attendees.
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Improved Sales Make for Good New England Show
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that strong sales in the run up to the fall regionals lead to good trade shows and the New England Independent Booksellers Association’s 39th annual fall conference held at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence from October 3-5 was no exception.
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Heartland Fall Forum Gets Positive Reviews
The first Heartland Fall Forum was described by many as the best regional gathering they’d attended in years.
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ICv2 Conference Kicks Off New York Comic Con
This year’s New York Comic Con will kick off with a gathering of top executives in the comics and pop culture industries.
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World Book Night Gets New Board, Chairman
World Book Night U.S. has some new board members and a new chairman. Micahel Pietsch, newly minted CEO of Hachette, has been elected chairman of the organization's board.
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'Poetry' Magazine Plans Extensive Centennial Celebration
It’s Poetry magazine’s 100th birthday, and The Poetry Foundation is throwing a huge party befitting a publication that bills itself as “the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.”
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New York Comic-Con gets bigger
Comic conventions have become the circus of the Internet era, and the circus is coming to town: New York Comic-Con, the second largest nerdapalooza in North America, will be held October 11–14 in New York’s Javits Center.
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Fall Festivals, 2012
With cooler weather comes anticipation of the fall season of literary festivals around the country. PW interviewed the bookseller partners at five of these (Wordstock Festival, Southern Festival of Books, Boston Book Festival, Texas Book Festival, and Miami Book Fair) to hear their take on the importance of literary festivals. Their unanimous response was that bringing authors, readers, and publishers together is invaluable in helping to promote reading and authors, and that despite whatever challenges may confront the publishing industry, community commitment to literary festivals grows stronger every year.
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BISG Panelists: More Change Coming
Speakers on a panel of industry leaders at Friday's annual meeting of the Book Industry Study Group agreed that the publishing industry is in for much more change.
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A Rocky Mountain High for Kids' Books in Denver
There was, as Cathy Langer of Denver's Tattered Cover put it, an "embarrassment of riches" this year at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association annual trade show. Approximately 400 booksellers descended upon Denver's Renaissance Hotel September 20-22 to swap stories, talk shop with the publishers' reps, and meet a diverse group of authors and illustrators.
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Children's Books at the 2012 National Book Festival: A Photo-Essay
Readers of all ages flocked to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for the 12th annual National Book Festival, organized by the Library of Congress. More than 60 children's book authors and illustrators participated in the two-day festival, which regularly draws more than 100,000 visitors. Young readers could listen to presentations from the likes of Marc Brown and Judy Sierra, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and Peter Reynolds, while Jeff Kinney, Christopher Paolini, Lois Lowry, Walter Dean Myers, Melissa Marr, and many others drew crowds of older children and teens. If you couldn't make it this year, take a visual tour of the festivities with our photo-essay.
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Kids' Books at Brooklyn Book Festival 2012: A Photo-Essay
Readers of all ages made their way to Brooklyn this past Sunday for the seventh annual Brooklyn Book Festival, which featured nearly 300 authors participating in more than 100 panels and other events.
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Mountains & Plains Booksellers, Reps Share Positive Vibes in Denver
Approximately 400 booksellers descended upon the Renaissance Hotel in northeast Denver Sept. 20-22 for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's annual trade show, which all agreed was a great success.
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Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Launches A Week of Literary Events
The seventh annual Brooklyn Book Festival kicks-off a week of literary events that began on Monday and will culminate in a full day of panels and other programming on September 23 at the Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza and nearby venues.
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