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London Book Fair
London Digital 2017: Publishing’s Startup Culture
Consultant and blogger Thad McIlroy talks to PW about his recently released report on startups in the book business.
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London Book Fair
London Digital 2017: Can Self-Publishing Crack the Academic Market?
PW talks to Daniel Berze, senior v-p of academic publishing for Glasstree, who says the traditional scholarly publishing model is broken—and self-publishing can help fix it.
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London Book Fair
London Digital 2017: Bringing the Science of Marketing Technology to Publishing
Evan Schnittman on his new startup, OptiQly.
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Libraries
Making ALA Great Again
Librarians are standing up to Trump, and they want the American Library Association to follow suit.
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Bookselling
Wharton Uses Zola’s Everywhere Store to Launch Online Bookstore
The store is the first to be powered by Zola’s Everywhere Store widget, an API that enables anyone to begin selling books simply by dropping a few lines of Zola’s code on to their website.
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Libraries
Librarians Call Foul on FCC Internet Policy Actions
The American Library Association this week criticized the FCC (now under Trump appointee Ajit Pai’s leadership) for revoking a key program and retracting a number of the agency’s recent reports.
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Libraries
For Librarians, 2017 Is Off to a Rough Start
Low attendance at ALA Midwinter, and thorny questions about the fate of libraries under Trump.
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Industry News
Barnhill, Steptoe, 'March: Book Three' Win Newbery, Caldecott, Printz
Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal for 'The Girl Who Drank the Moon,' Javaka Steptoe won the Caldecott Medal for 'Radiant Child,' and John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell won the Printz Award for 'March: Book Three.'
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Libraries
ALA Midwinter 2017: Colson Whitehead, Matthew Desmond Win ALA Carnegie Medals
The selections were announced on Sunday, January 22, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta, with an official award ceremony to come this summer, at the ALA annual conference, set for Chicago.
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Libraries
ALA Midwinter 2017: Could ESSA Spark a School Library Renaissance?
The federal education law known as ESSA, set to take effect this year, would provide critical support for school libraries if allowed to stand by the Trump administration.
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Libraries
ALA Midwinter 2017: Librarians Ponder the Future Under Trump
In his opening keynote at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Atlanta, just hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, W. Kamau Bell made a plea to librarians: don’t let Trump’s vision of America become the new normal.
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Libraries
ALA Midwinter 2017: Penguin Random House Announces Library Grant Winners
The awards, first announced last year by the Penguin Random House Foundation, are an effort to support and recognize the work oflibrarians.
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Libraries
Three Critical Issues Facing Librarians in Trump’s America
As a new administration takes office, a look at how librarians can make a difference.
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Publisher News
AAP Taps Maria Pallante to Succeed Tom Allen
The former U.S. Register of Copyrights will succeed Tom Allen as AAP president and CEO.
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Libraries
Hoopla Touts Growth, Announces New Partners
For digital library platform Hoopla Digital, 2016 was a very a good year—and 2017 looks to be off to a strong start.
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Libraries
OverDrive Pushes into Spanish
Based in Cleveland, Ohio, OverDrive has worked exclusively to distribute digital content since 1986, becoming one of the first companies to be involved in supplying digital content to libraries, first with audio and then with e-books.
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Publisher News
Pantsuit Nation Book Deal Raises Questions
Did Libby Chamberlain betray the ethics of the group she founded by securing a book deal?
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Shows & Events
ALA Midwinter 2017 Preview
What the incoming administration could mean for libraries will be among the hot topics at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting.
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Interviews
'The Political Equivalent of Enriched Uranium': PW Talks with Chris Hayes
The MSNBC host on race, justice, and his new book, 'A Colony in a Nation.'
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Libraries
Who Will Win the Newbery Medal?
Teachers, librarians, and students make their best guesses in mock Newbery programs.