Arcadia Goes Local at Winter Institute

Arcadia Publishing, which has a backlist of 14,000 local and regional titles, will present personalized catalogs to booksellers at Winter Institute, touting 16 store-specific titles the location's employees can handsell. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aspen Institute Report Urges Public Library Transformation

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