Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio is set to speak on Wednesday May 30, at 9:15 a.m. in New York’s Javits Center, as the kickoff to this year's BookExpo. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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This summer Hoopla, the digital arm of Midwest Tape, which provides digital media lending services for more than 1,600 U.S. and Canadian public libraries, is marking its fifth year since startup. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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When Potato—the star of 'Potato Pants!' (Holt/Ottaviano, Oct.)—hears about a one-day sale on potato pants (pants made out of potatoes, of course!), he is so excited, he starts doing the robot. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Texas native Ngozi Ukazu first wrote about hockey in a screenplay-writing seminar during her senior year at Yale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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“My goal is no longer a perfect body or hair. My goal is to live to be an old woman,” says Iranian-American novelist Porochista Khakpour. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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With 'The Boneless Mercies' (FSG, Oct.), a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set out to defeat a marauding monster, Tucholke is making her first foray into fantasy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Goodreads is credited by Penguin Press for helping to rapidly build the popularity of bestseller 'Little Fires Everywhere' and generating 30,089 'Want to Read' signals by release date. The post At BookExpo, Penguin and Goodreads Chart the Blaze of Celeste Ng’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ appeared... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Warning: Other authors may not want to read this story because it will make them want to tear their hair out. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Just weeks before the Harvey Weinstein scandal hit and the #MeToo movement went viral, actress, writer, and film director Amber Tamblyn wrote an ardent 'New York Times' editorial about how she was done with not being believed about her own harassment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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“Feeling cool, calm, and collected about this,” tweets Abbi Jacobson, about her upcoming book. However, the title, 'I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff' (Grand Central, Oct.) hints at the opposite. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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No book industry gathering would be complete without food—or books about food—for both adults and kids who want to learn how to cook or get new techniques for doing it faster, with healthy ingredients and bigger flavors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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It’s no wonder that Kate Morton, who travels with aplomb to vastly different time zones between her current London residence and her homeland of Australia, is fascinated by different aspects of time. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Colleen Hoover makes the time to oversee a subscription box program and specialty bookstore that together have raised more than a million dollars for charity. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The market is 'robust and solid,' the BookExpo audience hears from three of the biggest books CEOs in the world. It's just the consumers who keep changing. The post BookExpo’s Roundtable With CEOs Cites Stability, Growth, Promise for Books Ahead appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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What was it like for Sean Spicer to be President Donald Trump’s press secretary? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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After a confusing opening day at the trade show, publishers and booksellers settled into discussing industry issues and getting ready for the fall season. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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ABA CEO Oren Teicher urged booksellers to push American publishers to debut the centralized web-based invoicing program Batch, Josh Cook of Porter Square Books made a forceful declaration for booksellers to be more politically engaged, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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In the March trilogy, Congressman John Lewis, a renowned figure in the history of the civil rights movement and American social justice, and congressional staffer Andrew Aydin, Lewis’s digital director and policy adviser, wrote a graphic memoir about the struggle for racial justice. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Despite fears of a physical store "retail apocalypse," NPD BookScan's Kristen McLean outlined a future for indie booksellers driven by experimentation and selling books in more places. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Political books have been a particularly hot category in 2018, starting with the publication of Michael Wolff’s 'Fire and Fury' at the beginning of January and continuing with James Comey’s 'A Higher Loyalty.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The Week in Libraries, June 1, 2018: Among the headlines this week, highlights from a "reimagined" BookExpo 2018, and the California Senate passes a net neutrality bill. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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