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Book People
WBP invites you to submit brief announcements about people in the Washington area publishing community. We would particularly like news of promotions and job changes, but we also welcome news of births, marriages, relocations, and deaths.
If you would like to submit an announcement, email it to the WBP inbox and identify it as "book people" in the subject line.
Current Announcements
Posted August 9, 2011
Job Change: Jessica Kemp has left
ICMA and she has a new position: Director of Marketing and Customer Service at
Alexander Street Press. Jessica has served as a panelist for "Making a Career in Book Publishing."
Posted February 18, 2011
Book Review: Former WBP President W. Ralph Eubanks reviewed the book Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts on the NPR Web site. Read the February 16 review >
Posted December 6, 2010
Job Change: Melody Wilson now works for the International Reporting Project (IRP) at the Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. As Communications Coordinator and Webmaster, Melody oversees all online and print communications, including marketing, public relations, and new media.
Posted November 17, 2010
Promotion: Betsy Kulamer, former WBP president, has been promoted to Director, Books at ASCE. She is responsible for the acquisition of all ASCE books and will coordinate new initiatives, such as e-books.
News Feeds
If you are one of those people who hasn't had the time.. the interest... or the ability to setup your own RSS feed of publishing news, bookmark this page and check back frequently. WBP is doing it for you. We're providing a selection of feeds from Publisher's Weekly, AAP, AAUP's Digital Digest blog, the New York Times blog PaperCuts, and Publisher's Lunch. If you have a favorite feed for publishing information, share it with your colleagues by sending the link to the WBP inbox and put "News Feeds" in the subject line.
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Items of Interest
Agency Model Class Actions Consolidated in New York Court by Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly, December 13, 2011
Authors Guild Files for Class Certification in Google Case by Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly, December 13, 2011
Amazon blazes into computing with new Fire tablet by Cecilia Kang, Washington Post, September 28, 2011
6 Key Takeaways from Aptara's 3rd Annual Survey of Ebook Publishers by Matt Mullin, Digital Book World, September 22, 2011
Kindle Library Lending Goes Live Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly, September 21, 2011
Second Circuit Rejects "Freelance" Settlement by Andrew Albanese
Publishers Weekly, August 18, 2011
Facebook Acquires Digital Book Publisher Push Pop Press by Publishers Weekly Staff, August 3, 2011
Nebraska Book Co. Files for Chapter 11 by Publishers Weekly Staff, July 15 , 2011 How Print Design is the Future of Interaction by Mike Kruzeniski, Thoughts of Design, Technology, & Culture, July 1, 2011
StumbleUpon Offers New Publisher Tools by Nick Bilton, New York Times, June 28, 2011
Apple Unveils "Cloud" Music and Storage Service
by Miguel Helft New York Times, June 6, 2011.
Amazon.com Now Sells More E-books than Print Books by Publishers Weekly Staff, May 19, 2011
Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle Boost Job Growth at Publishers by Joesph Walker, Fins Technology, April 19, 2011
E-book Sales Explode in February While Other Segments Sink Publishers Weekly, April 14, 2011
An Inkling of the Future? Enhanced Ebooks and the College Textbook Market
by Yvette Chin, Digital Book World, March 31, 2011
Publisher Limits Shelf Life for Library E-Books
by Julie Bosman, New York Times, March 24, 2011
Judge Rejects Google Books Settlement by Amir Efrati and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2011
O'Reilly 2011 Tools of Change for Publishing Speaker Slides and Videos by O'Reilly Media, February 14-16, 2011, New York, New York.
Will Reference Books and Journals Survive? A Debate by Kent Anderson,Scholarly Kitchen, February 3, 2011
After Marketing: What Publishers Must Now Do After the Sale by Joseph Esposito,Scholarly Kitchen, February 1, 2011
Google Takes Street View Into Art Museums by Nick Bilton, New York Times, February 1, 2011
Apps Alter Reading on the Web by Jenna Wortham, New York Times, January 31, 2011
Designing Books for a Digital Age, by Alice Rawsthorn, New York Times, January 30, 2011
Dave Letterman on iPad and Kindle, Posted from YouTube by staff, Bargin Book News, January 18, 2011
Ten New Business Models that Rocked 2010, by Kent Anderson, Scholarly Kitchen, January 10, 2011
BISG Survey Finds Students Prefer Print
by Publishers Weekly Staff, PW Daily, January 7, 2011
CES 2011: Tablets, Education and the Cost of Moving Bits and Atoms by Calvin Reid, PW Daily, January 7, 2011
Will Your Next Editors Be Cyborgs or Robots? by Kent Anderson, Scholarly Kitchen, January 6, 2011
Prediction for 2011...The Individual Rules by Kent Anderson, Scholarly Kitchen, January 4, 2011
Year One: The Born Digital Publisher by Joseph Esposito, Scholarly Kitchen
January 3, 2011
For millennials, love means never calling back: "Texting Generation Doesn't Share Boomers' Taste for Talk", by Ian Shapira, The Washington Post, August 8, 2010
"What Is Google Editions?" by Peter Osnos, The Atlantic, July 20, 2010
"Publish or Perish: Can iPad Topple the Kindle and Save the Book Business?" by Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, April 26, 2010
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