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Content / e-booksLondon Book Fair 2017: Cory Doctorow Unveils His Latest Publishing Experiment—Fair Trade E-Books
For his forthcoming book, Walkaway, out in April, the bestselling author has devised a novel approach to selling the digital edition.
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London Book FairLondon Digital 2017: The Future of Publishing Is...
As the publishing world gathers for the London Book Fair, now ten years after the birth of the iPhone and the Kindle, Kristen McLean surveys the storytelling landscape.
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London Book FairLondon 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 FairLondon 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 FairLondon Digital 2017: Bringing the Science of Marketing Technology to Publishing
Evan Schnittman on his new startup, OptiQly.
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LibrariesMaking ALA Great Again
Librarians are standing up to Trump, and they want the American Library Association to follow suit.
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BooksellingWharton 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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LibrariesLibrarians 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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LibrariesFor 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 NewsBarnhill, 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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LibrariesALA 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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LibrariesALA 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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LibrariesALA 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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LibrariesALA 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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LibrariesThree 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 NewsAAP 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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LibrariesHoopla 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 NewsPantsuit 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.



