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SoapboxA Case for Multimedia Storytelling
A teacher and editor of a digital journal argues for interactive media's importance in publishing.
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The Disorganized Novelist's Guide to Outlines
Introducing Erika Raskin's formula for structuring a narrative, custom tailored to the organizationally challenged novelist.
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The Best Place for Comics? The Classroom.
Retired third grade teacher Susan Shafer argues for graphic novels and other books heavy on visuals as a vital teaching tool in today’s classroom.
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Women Booksellers Rule
Librarian and writer Rosalind Reisner discovers a Depression-era quiz for women booksellers—and finds that not much has changed when dealing with book buyers.
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Publishing’s Bright Future (Really!)
Courtney Maum, humorist and author of the satirical novel 'Touch,' mines her history working as a trend forecaster to predict a coming boom in books.
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The Boy Who Became Joe Finder
Veteran thriller writer Finder was once a child of eight who wanted to write. Then the author Eleanor Cameron became his pen pal.
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A New Concept for Indie Bookstores
Peter Goodman, the board chair of the Independent Book Publishers Association, has a radical idea for how to sell indie books.
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Free the Copyright Office
A bill that just cleared its first congressional hurdle takes a step toward modernizing the Copyright Office and giving it more independence, argues the Authors Guild's Mary Rasenberger.
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Do You Remember the Card Catalogue?
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden looks backward and forward as libraries try to keep pace with rapidly advancing technology.
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Celebrating Independent Bookstores
What’s so special about independent bookshops? Bob Eckstein, author-illustrator of 'Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores,’ shows and tells.
