Roger Rabbit Returns

Dec 2, 2012 | News

A year from now, America will serve Tom Turkey for Thanksgiving, with Roger Rabbit on the menu for the next day, Black Friday 2013. In an exclusive Beyond the Book interview, Celina Summers, editorial director at digital start-up Musa Publishing, announces the...

Librarians To Confront E-Book Mess: The Week Ahead

Nov 30, 2012 | News

As 2012 draws to its end, magazines and media proclaim the year’s winners and losers. Publishers Weekly gets the party started early next week with its announcement of book publishing’s “Person of the Year” for 2012. In the same issue, PW previews the upcoming...

BTB #330: Miami Marks Self-Publishing Year

Nov 25, 2012 | Events

As the year ends, authors, publishers and readers are recalling 2012 as a watershed moment: Self-publishing has shaken its “vanity press” origins and moved mainstream. For the recently-concluded Miami Book Fair, Copyright Clearance Center presented a special panel to...

The Week Ahead 11.16.12

Nov 16, 2012 | News

A newspaper man takes home a book award. At a time when both the news business and the book business face crisis, a celebration provides welcome diversion. This week’s ceremony for the National Book Awards included honoring New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger...

BTB #328: Miami Book Fair Preview 2012

Nov 11, 2012 | Events

As the nation’s largest public book fair opens in downtown Miami, Lissette Mendez, a principal organizer of the Miami Book Fair, produced by The Center for Literature and Theatre at Miami Dade College, gives CCC’s Chris Kenneally an insider’s preview. Authors...

The Week Ahead 11.09.12

Nov 9, 2012 | News

Self-publishing, like politics, makes for unusual bedfellows. Not only authors, but also now publishers are turning to platforms like Smashwords that publish and sell e-books, and taking advantage of digitally-devoted distribution services. Publishers Weekly’s Calvin...

BTB #327: Charleston Conference Preview

Nov 4, 2012 | Events

Hundreds of librarians, publishers, consultants, and technologists will soon trek to the American southeast coast. The destination for their pilgrimage is the annual Charleston Conference. Since 1980, the Charleston Conference, in South Carolina, has made it possible...

The Week Ahead 11.02.12

Nov 2, 2012 | News

Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm of 2012, will go down as one for the record books in numerous categories – for flooding, for amount of rainfall, and for its terrible impact on human lives and livelihoods. In Manhattan, the epicenter of American trade book publishing...

BTB #326: The New Frontier of Bookselling

Oct 28, 2012 | Events

At the Keystone Resort in the Colorado Rockies (elevation: 9300 feet), PubWest – the Publishers Association of the West –held its annual conference this weekend. In his opening keynote, Oren Teicher, CEO of American Booksellers Association, called for a closer...