Jul 28, 2008 | Announcements
In what promises to be the first article in a series called “The Future of Reading,” the New York Times this Sunday examined how a generation of readers who prefer online content to printed books may be learning differently than their parents and asks, “Is this good...
Jul 27, 2008 | Best of VOC, Events, Podcasts
Folk wisdom says the Web is killing books, but a leading librarian and Internet-advocate has the facts: “Since the advent of the Internet, book circulation and use of libraries has gone up at least 50 to 60%. It’s fantastic. People come in, they use our books, they...
Jul 20, 2008 | Best of VOC, Events, Podcasts
It sounds obvious enough – the future of reading depends on future readers, who are also today’s children. “All of us recognize the responsibility we have to the development of kids’ minds by ensuring that they’re readers,” says Debby Kovacs. An author, publisher, and...
Jul 13, 2008 | Best of VOC, Events, Podcasts
“Authors want to be read and that’s where we start the conversation,” declares Ana Maria Allessi, the Publisher of HarperMedia as she outlines efforts to reach audiences in innovate ways such as online video. “Authors are a tremendously enthusiastic and happy to...
Jul 6, 2008 | Best of VOC, Events, Podcasts
“The future of reading is as assured as the future of eating,” promises publisher Paul Dry in this first of four installments from the “Beyond the Book” panel at BookExpo America 2008. “Of course, what we eat, and what we read, will be up to us and what we find...
