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Neal-Schuman Publishers to join ALA Publishing

Submitted by Macey Morales on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 12:05

CHICAGO - American Library Association (ALA) President Molly Raphael and Neal-Schuman President Patricia Glass Schuman today announced that on Dec. 23, 2011, Neal-Schuman Publishers will become part of ALA Publishing.

Rebecca Vnuk joins Booklist as new editor, reference and collection management

Submitted by Mary Frances Wilkens on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 09:18

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ALA meets with Association of American Publishers on e-books

Posted: Sep. 26, 2011.

ALA President Molly Raphael, Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels, and ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) Director Alan Inouye met September 15 with Tom Allen and Tina Jordan, president and vice president of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), at their New York office.

eBook rank #1 in sales for Feb 2011

Submitted by Jason Griffey on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 19:44

The Association of American Publishers released some numbers today that put eBooks at the #1 spot for sales in all publishing categories. From the release:

According to the February results, once again e-Books have enjoyed triple-digit percentage growth, 202.3%, vs February 2010. Downloaded Audiobooks, which have also seen consistent monthly gains, increased 36.7% vs last February.

For February 2011, e-Books ranked as the #1 format among all categories of Trade publishing (Adult Hardcover, Adult Paperback, Adult Mass Market, Children’s/Young Adult Hardcover, Children’s/Young Adult Paperback).

And my favorite bit:

For the year to date (January/February 2011 vs January/February 2010), which encompasses this heavy post-holiday buying period, e-Books grew 169.4% to $164.1M while the combined categories of print books fell 24.8% to $441.7M.*

eBooks are still not the majority of book sales…but with numbers like this, it certainly won't be long.

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ALA-APA call for volunteers for Certification, Publishing, Fundraising, and Better Salaries committees

Submitted by Jenifer Grady on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 10:49

CHICAGO - American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) President-elect Molly Raphael is seeking applications and nominations for appointments to 2011-2012 ALA Allied Professional Association committees. Appointments take effect at the conclusion of the 2011 Annual Conference. Nominations should be submitted no later than Friday, Nov. 19, 2010.

The Future of Libraries: Interview with Thomas Frey

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Self publish in the Apple iBookstore

Submitted by Jason Griffey on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 13:45

Apple has decided to allow individuals to publish their own works in the iBookstore via iTunes Connect…although it isn’t necessarily easy. You could already do this through a third party such as Lulu, and doing so might be easier, as they take care of getting your ISBN and such. But if you have a Great Work that needs to be read on the iPad, and want to…

Get your own ISBN
Get an Employer Identification Number from the IRS
Create and validate an ePub of your work

…you, too, can have your work featured in the iBookstore.

Birth of the Digital Magazine

Submitted by Jason Griffey on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 06:24

Given the Digital Magazine rack from a few days ago, I thought it would be good to show a few examples of the sorts of ways that publishers are approaching the digital magazine these days. With the iPad launching in just 2 weeks, many major publications are planning digital versions. Here’s what a few might look like:

Wired Magazine

Sports Illustrated

Most interesting, I think, is what an already-digital magazine is doing with the freedom of the tablet form factor. This is VIV magazine’s take on what content might become. The second video is the “making of” that shows how they did it.