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  Register for Publishing Perspectives’ Children’s Book Conference

  1338 readersAudience at TOC Frankfurt 2010Publishing Perspectives is hosting its first conference in the United States: The Children’s Publishing Conference 2012. A half-day event organized by Publishing Perspectives and sponsored by Scholastic Inc., “What Makes a Children’s Book Great?” on May 31, 2012, will offer informed insight into the present and future of this fast-evolving area of publishing. When: Thursday,

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  Subscription book review site launched

  249 readersFrom an article in paidContent: Media Source, the company behind review publications like Library Journal, School Library Journal and Horn Book, is launching a subscription-based site, BookVerdict.com, that aggregates over 300,000 reviews from its publications. The site is aimed at book-buying librarians, though anyone can subscribe. It includes over 20 years of reviews, including starred reviews, “best”

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  Subscription book review site launched

  376 readersFrom an article in paidContent: Media Source, the company behind review publications like Library Journal, School Library Journal and Horn Book, is launching a subscription-based site, BookVerdict.com, that aggregates over 300,000 reviews from its publications. The site is aimed at book-buying librarians, though anyone can subscribe. It includes over 20 years of reviews, including starred reviews, “best”

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  Subscription book review site launched

  287 readersFrom an article in paidContent: Media Source, the company behind review publications like Library Journal, School Library Journal and Horn Book, is launching a subscription-based site, BookVerdict.com, that aggregates over 300,000 reviews from its publications. The site is aimed at book-buying librarians, though anyone can subscribe. It includes over 20 years of reviews, including starred reviews, “best”

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  What Makes a Children’s Book Great?

  1101 readersBy Edward Nawotka Today in New York City at the Scholastic headquarters, Publishing Perspectives is hosting its inaugural children’s book conference. For this event we chose the theme “What Makes a Children’s Book Great?” It was inspired in part by my own daughter. She’s a fortunate child, one surrounded by thousands of books, and blessed enough to have a

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  Have librarians fallen out of love with books?

  1195 readersNot my view obviously, but it is one conclusion you could come to had you attended the London Word Festival's debate on the future of libraries, No Furniture So Charming, held last week at Bethn...

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  The Future of Children’s Books

  433 readers The final panel at Children’s Publishing Goes Digital. Photo credit: Nicole Fonovich With rising revenues and a greater adoption of e-reading by children and their families, 2012 may be remembered as the year when children’s publishing truly went digital. The optimism was palpable yesterday at the Children’s Publishing Goes Digital event at Digital Book World, which, along

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  What Makes a Children’s Book Great? We Have Some Answers

  857 readers“Great is the sheer exhilaration of falling in love with a book.” By Dennis Abrams What makes a children’s book great? Publishing Perspectives, along with host Scholastic Inc., held its inaugural children’s publishing conference yesterday, May 31, in New York City, in attempt to answer that very question. And while the subject may not have been settled definitively, the

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  Scholastic to offer Sourceooks’ children’s titles as ebooks

  1604 readers From the press release: Scholastic SCHL -2.27% , the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced a partnership agreement with Sourcebooks, a leading independent publisher, to offer their children’s titles through the Scholastic proprietary distribution channels as e-books on the new Scholastic e-reading application

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  OverDrive Accelerates Global eBook Distribution to K-12 & Higher Ed Channels

  2444 readersFrom the press release: Educational and academic publishers can now reach schools around the world with hundreds of K-12 and higher education libraries now in OverDrive’s global network. New eBook publishers supplying to OverDrive-powered school, college, and university libraries include Houghton Mifflin, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Kaeden Publishing, Barnes Report, and ALA Editions. They join Barron’s Educational Series,