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Banned Books Week
It’s Banned Books Week, a terrific time to appreciate our freedom to both read and write what we choose. There was a time when booksellers feared for their livelihood at the site of law enforcement and Upton Sinclair took to selling a fig-leaf edition of Oil! on the streets of Boston. Bookleggers smuggled Ulysses and […]
Relaunching the Blog
As we’ve re-launched our website to better reflect our growing company, it seemed the perfect occasion to re-launch our blog as well. In the past, we’ve suffered the busy blogger’s syndrome which puts this task too far down on the daily list. Our plan moving ahead is to blog several times a week, offering up […]
BEA takes us into the future
Book Expo 2011 is now just a memory, a blur of long aisles, new books, the latest publishing news and three days of meeting live with those we do business with all year. In other words, our pleasure. New York greeted the booklovers who descended upon the city with sunny skies and gorgeous spring weather, […]
The Biggest Show of all for Book Lovers
That headline could easily be disputed – even among book lovers. But after twenty years of walking the floors, manning booths, attending panels and hitting the after parties with my publishing colleagues, I cop to still being ready to pack a bag and head to where the action is come the end of May. BookExpo […]
SXSWi proves a strong draw for publishing crowd
When I moved to Austin 15 years ago, the interactive portion of SXSW was in its infancy. This year, attendance was up 30 percent to well over 100,000 attendees, the conference is well known as the birthplace of Twitter and without a doubt it was the place to be earlier this month if you were […]
Fearless
Last Monday night I attended a meetup at South By Southwest Interactive hosted by Tim Grahl and Todd Sattersten. It was a cool place called Frank, and the meeting was in an upstairs loft completely filled to the edges with people. Here’s what I noticed about this group as I worked the room. They are all (or mostly) […]
Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Susan Williams, Executive Editor, Jossey-Bass
In our weekly blog, we’ve been checking in with industry leaders from all facets of the business – editorial to marketing to sales, to find out how the shift to digital platforms, the weakened economy, and the diminishing number of brick and mortar stores is affecting how they do their jobs. This week, we spoke […]
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