“Agile Publishing” is the theme at this year’s George Washington University Summer Publishing Institute, where master’s degree candidates in GWU’s new Master of Professional Studies in Publishing program finish up their degrees. Students are learning about customer-centric approaches to publishing in the new and rapidly evolving online environment, and how other publishers are coping with the real-time →
BookExpo America, New York City This is a fair where the publishing houses meet their market, the bookstores, and present the new books for the coming year. Whereas the Frankfurt and London Book Fairs highlight rights, and networking among publishers, BEA features lots of marketing glitz. Every year we see fewer independent bookstores perusing among →
George Washington University and the World Bank are sponsoring a series of publishing workshops for the developing world. OBS serves as co-presenter at this spring’s workshop in Egypt, and learns much about the world of Arab publishing from participants at the Library of Alexandria, site of the oldest known library on the planet. It was here →