Leave it to the rookies to shake things up. Ann Binkley and Edward Nawotka were hardly new to the book biz — Binkley most recently PR director at Borders, and Nawotka an editor at PW — but they were admittedly novices at organizing book festivals. So, they thought, why don’t we ask the pros? At…Continue Reading
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Eyeing the plethora of titles from publishers large and small at the 91st National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention, one relatively new educational publisher was heard to marvel, “How can so many books sell?” Indeed, that was the question furrowing many publishers’ brows during the weekend of Nov. 17, as an estimated 6,000…Continue Reading