05/23/2012 @ 12:00AM
Bit.ly’s chief scientist Hilary Mason was the featured speaker at the PW and TOC Publishing Executive Roundtable on May 22, and the key topic was “big data.” Speaking to a room of publishers, Mason said publishing’s shift to a more dynamic information model is “inevitable,” and that, at this point, dynamic data is already being generated, it’s just about optimizing it.
05/22/2012 @ 12:00AM
On May 31, Publishing Perspectives will team up with the Frankfurt Academy to host a half-day children’s publishing conference entitled “What Makes a Children’s Book Great?” at the Scholastic Headquarters in New York.
05/21/2012 @ 12:00AM
Self-publishing was a hot topic at the 2012 Nebula Awards weekend, which took place May 17–20 in Arlington, Va.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Barbara Lowenstein, Roger Cooper, Tom Dunne and Bob Miller have organized a book industry fundraiser for Barack Obama, with 83 publishing executives now at the "host" level ($1,000 or more), in addition to many more donating and buying tickets for the event. Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be the guest speaker.
05/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
More than 100 pieces of original children’s art that will be auctioned during BookExpo America are now available for preview online as part of the Annual Children's Art Auction and Reception on the evening of June 6.
05/13/2012 @ 12:00AM
LitFest Pasadena, the city's first community-wide book festival that featured more than 50 exhibitors, dozens of California authors, children's events, and several panels held its inaugural event on Saturday, May 12 on the grounds of Pasadena's Central Park.
05/09/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Gaithersburg Book Festival, which will have its third outing in the metro Washington, DC area May 19, has added a number of panels and discussions this year to augment its lineup of author presentations.
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
BookExpo America panel descriptions have been posted on the BEA Website for uPublishU, the day-long conference devoted to self-publishing which will take place on Sunday, June 3 at the Javits Center in New York City.
05/04/2012 @ 10:00AM
The Book Industry Study Group's annual Making Information Pay conference offered a program that outlined the broad nature of "Big Data"--specifically the ability to "tame vast amounts of data," how to manage it, and how it can help publishers run their business more efficiently.
04/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
Given the genre's violent tendencies, inspiration and humor might not be the first things you'd expect at a gathering of the Mystery Writers of America, but both were on display at the 66th Annual Edgar Awards Banquet, held last night.
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Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Serpent's Shadow | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
