At a preconference in Anaheim this June, ALA is offering you tips on how to turn your library into a Magic Kingdom™. No, you first, I insist.
In which I promise not to tell anyone about your terrific new book
November 18, 2011 By 9 Comments
I spent most of yesterday being irritated by the conundrum of review books that come (or don’t) with nondisclosure agreements. Here’s what one looks like: CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT Date: xx/xx/xx Publisher XYZ Re: Title: Book ABC Author: Author LMNOP Publication Date: xx/xx/xx ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ Dear ___________: In order to induce [Publisher XYZ] to deliver a [...]
>Website worries
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>You Probably Think This Word Is About You
September 24, 2009 By 9 Comments
>How Others See Us
May 13, 2009 By 5 Comments
>The New York Times obituary for Eden is a gracious tribute but does that thing I hate: “Eden Ross Lipson . . . was a force in bringing the enchanting but often overlooked world of children’s literature to wide public awareness.” The REASON children’s literature is overlooked is because we persist in regarding it as [...]
>She has a really good point.
March 31, 2009 By 6 Comments
>I like Jill Wolfson’s dissent about SLJ’s upcoming Battle of the Books, for which I am the Decider between Ways to Live Forever and Octavian Nothing II. Jill is right–the BOB provides more publicity for books which have already received plenty, and as a series of apples-and-oranges decisions, it doesn’t have a whole lot of [...]
>Dasher, Dancer, Dunder and Jesus
December 12, 2008 By 3 Comments
>Support your local superstore!
November 29, 2008 By 13 Comments
>(Un)block that metaphor!
November 24, 2008 By 20 Comments
>”We have turned off the spigot, but we have a very robust pipeline”–Houghton Mifflin Harcourt spokesman Josef Blumenfeld, explaining the company’s rationale for ordering its editors to stop acquiring manuscripts. No, Joe, what you have turned off is the water supply, rendering both the pipeline AND spigot irrelevant.
