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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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Tracking the Digital Movement at the ASEAN eBook Conference
Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and attended by more than 200 participants, the inaugural ASEAN eBook Conference is a two-day event (running from December 4 to 5) that provided a snapshot of the e-book industry in several countries, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Author (R)evolution Day Set For February 12
O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change and Publishers Weekly are collaborating to launch a new conference called Author (R)evolution Day, aimed at professional authors, content creators, agents, and other independent author services providers. This daylong conference-within-a-conference debuts Tuesday, February 12, 2013 during O'Reilly's flagship TOC conference in New York City.
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ALA 2013: All Our Coverage
PW’s 2013 ALA Midwinter Preview
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The Great Big Discoverability Question
Navigating the floodgates of the app marketplace was at the center of the Media App Summit, presented by Mediabistro and held in New York this week.
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The P&L Sheet: ALA Preview 2013
When I left magazine publishing and returned to working in libraries a year ago, I promised myself one thing: when it comes to e-books, I wouldn’t get my boxer shorts into a twist.
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Resolutions: ALA Preview 2013
As some 10,000 librarians, publishers, authors, and vendors gear up for the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting, in Seattle, January 25–29, it’s a perfect time to take a look at the year that was for libraries—and the year to come.
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Standing Up for the Community: PW Talks with Terry Plum: ALA Preview 2013
When it comes to digital, librarians can sometimes be perceived as awfully cranky—just look at the current debate around e-books and lending rights.
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Jacks Thomas Named London Book Fair Head
Reed Exhibitions has appointed Jacks Thomas, joint CEO of Midas Public Relations, as senior exhibition director for the the London Book Fair. Thomas has over 20 years' experience in the U.K. and international book industries: prior to joining Midas PR, she was the director of communications, Europe for Reader's Digest.
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Holiday Children's Art Auction Opens on eBay
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is launching today an online auction of original children’s art by 50 of the book industry’s leading artists and illustrators, including Marla Frazee, Barbara McClintock, Chris Raschka, and Adam Rex.
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