The annual joint meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion was a forum for hot-button issues and a weekend of opportunities for academic religion publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-27 05:00:00 UTC ]
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance executive director Linda-Marie Barrett announced at the organization's annual meeting that the New Voices New Rooms trade show, held in partnership with the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association, will head to Atlanta in 2025. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-15 05:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of the SBL and AAR’s annual meeting, PW talked with 14 university press directors, trade publishers, and editors about today’s landscape and what they see on the horizon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
The SBL and AAR’s annual meeting, set to run from November 23-26 in San Diego, will bring together some 7,000 scholars, authors, professors, and publishers from around to take on topics that are vital to academic religion publishers and biblical scholars. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
The American Booksellers Association held its annual meeting and community forum with 128 individuals and store locations in attendance. ABA’s present membership includes 2,433 bookstore companies with 2,844 store locations, representing “an 11% increase in membership year over year,” according... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Strategies to rein in illegal copying of copyrighted materials to fuel generative and efforts to defend freedom of expression were front and center at this year's annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
A return to doing industry research and broadening the organization's ties to such industry key players as literary agents and authors are part of the Book Industry Study Group's new three-year initiative. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
Katie Pryde, owner of the comic shop Books with Pictures is leading an industry effort to improve the quality of comics metadata and explains the new standards just released by ComicsPRO at its annual meeting. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
During its annual meeting and community forum, ABA leaders pointed to steady growth in membership over the last three years and outlined plans to deal with new issues, including book bans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
The annual meeting, held on April 28 at the Harvard Club of New York, included a daylong program with panel discussions and presentations that highlighted accomplishments and key challenges facing BISG's members. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-05-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
At its annual meeting, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award board of trustees affirms the winners selected as recipients in nine categories this year. The post Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Winners Approved for the 17th Edition appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-03-23 18:24:52 UTC ]
The annual meeting between the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) attracted 7,291 attendees to Denver, Colo. Nov. 19 to 22 in what some publishers are calling a return to normal post-Covid. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
For the third year running, the American Booksellers Association held its annual meeting and town hall virtually. More than 260 booksellers participated, and discussions ranged from free speech issues to consolidation within the industry. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
As ALA wraps up its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., we look back at our coverage of its 2012 event. Then as now, e-book lending was a divisive issue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Fox News boss has made few public comments about ex-president who was championed by many of the network’s commentatorsFox News boss Rupert Murdoch has said Donald Trump should stop focusing “on the past” in a rare public rebuke of the former US president.On Wednesday addressing the annual... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-17 23:11:42 UTC ]
The ABA held its second virtual annual meeting Thursday, followed by a Town Hall. While some booksellers expressed concerns over publisher discounts and plans by Ingram to ship all IPS titles from a single warehouse, others focused on the future of in-person events. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-05-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Thomson, CEO of HarperCollins parent company News Corp, said during the company's annual meeting that a purchase of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House "will clearly be a serious antitrust issue." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Ahead of the annual meeting between the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature (AAR/SBL), taking place virtually from November 29 to December 10 this year, PW looks at the latest trends in academic religion book publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
In an annual meeting and town hall that touched on the many issues and challenges that booksellers face today, New England Independent Booksellers Association members took up a message of resilience and looked ahead to 2021 with good spirits in spite of it all. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
The annual meeting of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, which took place at the New Voices New Rooms conference on Thursday, revealed that its membership jumped from 160 stores in 2019 to 589 stores this year, after it waived membership dues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-25 04:00:00 UTC ]