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Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Meg Kuehn
Meg Kuehn, vice president of business development of Kirkus Reviews, shares her thoughts on Kirkus’ role in the publishing industry and the company’s future. Q: Kirkus has long been a voice in publishing, offering pre pub reviews that have served, predominately, as a guide to booksellers. It seems the recent sale of the publication has […]
Teen Readers: Not the Minority They Are Thought to Be
What follows is a guest post by Kate Henricks, a high school senior, swim team co-captain and avid teen reader. I have always believed in the significance of books. Maybe growing up the daughter of both a book publicist and a journalist/author has given me a skewed viewpoint, but reading has always seemed pretty darn […]
Five Quick Questions with Publishing’s Top Leaders: Clint Greenleaf
Five Quick Questions with Clint Greenleaf, founder and CEO of Greenleaf Book Group. GBG, an Inc. 500 Company, is a leading publisher and distributor with several New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. Q: Greenleaf uses a different model of publishing than many other houses. Can you give us a quick course on how […]
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 […]
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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