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• Book Clubs: They’re Alive
  

  Say “book clubs” today and most people think Oprah and Twitter. (Yes, Twitter: Picador recently announced its new 140-character book club. Followers will be able to correspond with the featured books’ authors and editors and win free copies of the books.) But once upon a time, book club members didn’t win free books on Twitter; [...]

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• Hands Across the Ocean
  

  On Shakespeare’s birthday, it seems only fitting to talk about the London Book Fair and what it suggests re: book publishing’s future. It was, as others have said a smaller fair than in recent years, and there were noticeably fewer Americans, with some publishers (viz Random, Scholastic) represented only by their sub rights people. A [...]

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• April 2009 Book View
  

  PEOPLE Todd McGarity has been named VP, Distribution Sales & Services at Hachette Book Group USA, replacing Chris Hamley, who held the position for less than a year. McGarity was most recently Director of Client Development at Random House. He will report to COO Ken Michaels.With the merging of Oxmoor House into Time Inc. Home [...]

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• The Ultimate Publishing Blogroll
  

  We are compiling a giant list of publishing blogs for the May issue of Publishing Trends. We’ll also be posting it online and constantly updating it on our BRAND NEW WEBSITE (coming very soon, stay tuned!) What are your favorite publishing blogs? Whether they are about books, design, or writing or are from publishing houses [...]

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• Cuba is (not) book country
  

  Last week a group of publishing folk, moonlighting as humanitarian aid workers, invaded Cuba. We spent the week in Havana and its environs and – because it was the 10th Havana Art Biennial – found ourselves immersed in a vibrant city-wide exhibition that focused on third world and Latino artists. Havana is a mass of [...]

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• Publishing Business 2009: Cloudy with a Chance of Sunshine
  

  Unlike the atmosphere at SXSW, the mood at the 2009 Publishing Business Conference & Expo was a bit subdued. It might have been the chilly New York weather or the beige Marriott Marquis carpeting—or maybe it was the panels reflecting the current state of the publishing industry, with titles like “Book Publishing and the New [...]

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• Search Engine Strategies Conference 2009
  

  PT thanks New York–based marketing consultant Rich Kelley for his reporting. Social media and search had quite a mashup at this year’s Search Engine Strategies Conference. For three days, 5500 attendees alternated between panels on social media optimization strategies, talks on Google’s new AdWords interface, tuning websites for search, and much more. For its opening [...]

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• SXSW Interactive 2009
  

  Much has been written about this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, where game developers rubbed shoulders with web marketers, and the publishers that attended were confronted at one panel by exasperated authors and bloggers. But now that the bytes have settled (or healed, as the case may be), what are the useful takeaways? Most [...]

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