PubTech Connect: New Speakers Added

We’ve just signed on three amazing new speakers for PubTech Connect, a can’t-miss one-day conference organized by Publishers Weekly and the NYU SPS Center for Publishing about using technology, disruptive tactics, and smart strategies to boost your business and brands.

Amory Wooden, director of brand marketing, Squarespace

Declan Moore, chief executive officer, National Geographic Partners

George Baier IV, head of media solutions, Dropbox

Also check out our profiles of “Electrifying Legacy Brands” panelists Jay Lauf (Quartz, Atlantic Media) and Sam Olstein (General Electric), and our profiles of “Innovators” panelists Baier, Wooden, Hillary Kerr (Clique Media/WhoWhatWear), and Joanna Lord (ClassPass), and moderator J.J. McCorvey (FastCompany).

Learn all about the conference and buy tickets.

From the Newsletters

Tip Sheet

Michael Knight, author of Eveningland, picks the 10 best interlinked story collections.

Children’s Bookshelf

Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz and Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca discuss their new slapstick fairy tale collaboration, Princess Cora and the Crocodile.

BookLife Report

How the publishers of the seminal African-American comics collection Black Comix are using Kickstarter to crowdfund an expanded version of the book.

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Podcasts

Week Ahead

PW senior writer Andrew Albanese talks about Barack and Michelle Obama’s record-setting book deal, and why their books may not be your usual White House memoirs.

More to Come

Interviews with Ezra Claytan Daniels about his sci-fi comic Upgrade Soul and animator Adebukola Buki Bodunrin about experimental digital comics storytelling.

PW Radio

We dip into the PW Radio archives for an interview with comics creator Gilbert Hernandez. Plus, PW editorial director Jim Milliot looks back on 200 years of HarperCollins.

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Blogs

ShelfTalker

A bookseller sounds off on what he considers to be overreaching embargo practices by publishers.