With Challenges Ahead, New England Booksellers Stress Resilience

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 at 'Publishers Weekly'

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IBW 'has taken on creative life of its own'

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Trade responds to EC Digital Single Market proposals

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Amazon's dominance 'damages' progress

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At AAP Annual Meeting Speakers Tackle Technology, Free Speech

Three topics that publishers have been dealing with in recent years--technology, data, and free speech--were addressed in a series of lively presentations at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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BA welcomes 'radical' business rates review

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Academic booksellers frozen out by D2C

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ComicsPRO Elects Dolan as New President

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Money, mobile and maturing brands: What else is keeping publishers up at night?

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BA tells Treasury 'scrap business rates altogether'

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