(via PR Newswire) SAN FRANCISCO, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – The San Francisco Book Festival is holding a FREE and open to the public daytime book fair and publishing seminar on Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 11 a.m. to 5… Read More

This year's US Innovations Seminar of the International Association of STM Publishers focused on the impact of data mining, MOOCs and new author/researcher tools.… Read More

I was presenting at a seminar last week, and someone came up to me afterwards and said he’d bought my book and was enjoying it. His only complaint was that the Kindle for Android app didn’t support text to speech,… Read More

It was the first day of my first college English class, and the teacher of our freshman seminar opened the discussion by announcing that, in this class, we were going to read only books written by women authors. My first… Read More

There was once time when the B2B media industry was all about serving readers and selling advertisers. It was a simple game: give away the magazine to industry pros and sell those that want to profit from reaching those in… Read More

Mark Coker…, the founder/CEO of self-publishing community Smashwords, is pushing libraries to offer self-publishing programs to library patrons. He explained his reasoning on the company’s blog: Libraries are uniquely qualified to orchestrate community resources and talent to help local Read More

From April 23-25 the BAIBF offers exclusive programming for publishing professionals, including a seminar on change management, honors for Latin America's top 50 publishing pros, and more.… Read More

For five years, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation has fought to raise awareness of Bulgarian writing by sponsoring prizes, seminars and publications at home and abroad. By Daniel Kalder The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation is perhaps unique in the world not only… Read More

By Vinutha Mallya Lynette Owen of Pearson Education speaks in Frankfurt about best practices for selling rightsYou made the journey to the biggest book fair, and now you’re wondering how to make the most of it. An intensive “Rights Express”… Read More

Digital media at the Frankfurt Book Fair. © Peter Hirth / Frankfurter Buchmesse Luc Audrain, head of digitalization support at Hachette Livre, profiled in today’s feature story, will be leading the workshop “HTML 5 and EPUB3: Digital Books Beyond Digitized… Read More

By Sarah Odedina, Managing Director, Hot Key Books It is wonderful to be invited to take part in conventions and conferences, and perhaps not more so than when those events are being hosted in exciting places like Singapore. I was… Read More

“Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas…” By Paula Gantz Node XL is just one of the tools available to publishers... Technological innovation does improve the process of scientific research and publication,… Read More

From the WorldReader blog (blockquotes omitted): The sun was shining and our publishing partners were filing in the door. Every single publisher we work with in Ghana was represented, most of them by more than one person. I was about… Read More

By Julieta Lionetti Not so long ago, the first three days of the Buenos Aires International Book Fair (BABF), those prior to the opening of the event to the public, resembled more of a souk, with professionals engaged in a… Read More