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HarperCollins Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Mockingbird
Published in 1960, Harper Lee’s novel of racial injustice and honor in the depression era, racially divided deep South has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. A film, named best courtroom drama by the AFI (American Film Institute) in 2008, featuring Gregory Peck was released in 1962. [...]
So Who Is Reading Those Ebooks?
Much of Wednesday’s BEA (BookExpo America) programming also focused on Ebooks. At ‘EBooks — Who is Reading?’ The results of a ‘consumer attitudes towards ebooks’ study sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and R.R. Bowker were discussed. The survey is ongoing, so the results discussed at this session were more of a snapshot. [...]
DIY @ BEA
A new component to BEA this year is the DIY Conference Marketplace, which featured panels and educational sessions on self-publishing, as well as appearances by successful self-published authors like J.A. Konrath, Sheryl Matthys, and Maria Murnane.
Ebooks!
Lots of talk about libraries and ebooks at yesterday’s Day of Dialog sessions, “Ebooks Set Free: Blio/Copia and Other Platforms,” and “Audiobooks, Music, and Movies: Content and Format Changes and Challenges.” In “Ebooks Set Free,” panelists including reps from Baker & Taylor (Blio) and Copia, as well as public librarians, Susan Caron, Toronto Public Library, [...]
Editor’s Picks @ BEA
Here’s the list of forthcoming titles from this morning’s session (see previous post): Amy Einhorn, Amy Einhorn Books, Penguin Group(USA): Mark Mustian, “The Gendarme” (September) Siobhan Fallon, “You Know When the Men Are Gone” (Winter) Eleanor Brown, “The Weird Sisters” (Winter) Eric Poole, “Where’s My Wand” (May) Jennifer Hershey, Ballantine Bantam Dell Anne Fortier, “Juliet” [...]
Book Expo Day One — LJ Day of Dialog
LJ’sDay of Dialog (for librarians attending BookExpo) kicked off with “Editor’s Picks” a look at upcoming titles. Panelists included Amy Einhorn, Amy Einhorn books, Penguin Group (USA); Jennifer Hershey, Ballantine Bantam Dell; Kelley Ragland, Minotaur Books; and Liate Stehlik, HarperCollins. Stay tuned for their picks!
A free fluid CSS grid to make your life easier
Here’s a little CSS trick I came up with while developing the stylesheet for our new website at San Jose Public Library. I hope it can assist other web teams with quicker development strategies as they try new things on their library websites. (UPDATE- see the bottom of this post for a vastly improved version [...]
