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Most of Those Meetings Really Could Be Emails

July 14, 2022

Asynchronous communication allows staff to share or respond to information at their own pace at a time that’s best for them, through Google docs, videos, marked-up screenshots, surveys, Slack (yes, messaging apps should be considered asynchronous) and more. This type of communication also avoids a bias against remote staff, Secondari said, and is “genius” now that many companies are working in a hybrid model.

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Public Library Systems Close Across the Country

March 15, 2020

This is far from a comprehensive list, and the closures continued to grow. (Michael Sauers and Julie Erickson created a live Google Doc spreadsheet tracking library system closures.) Patrons should check locally before visiting. The trend is clear and expect most libraries to be suspended shortly. Patrons and students will rely ever more on digital materials with branches closed, and some of those suppliers have announced initiatives.

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People, Etc.

November 22, 2019

Publishing Salaries A Book Money spreadsheet of self-reported anonymous book publishing salaries is growing through an online Google doc, with an open form for submissions. Currently, there are 165 entries across a variety of roles and levels. The spreadsheet also provides space to include gender identity, salary, previous salary and more.

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People, Etc.

August 5, 2019

TAKES: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, will be published by Avid Reader Press on September 17: Cancelled Tim Tingle‘s forthcoming middle grade novel DOC AND THE DETECTIVE was cancelled by Scholastic, after two booksellers made allegations of inappropriate behavior. The book was due out in October from Arthur A. Levine Books.

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Ecco Pulls Ad From Harper’s Over Upcoming Roiphe Article

January 10, 2018

An anonymous Google Doc compiled last October after the Weinstein revelations broke, the list was a crowdsourced “collection of misconduct allegations and rumors.” Tuesday evening, Ecco vp and editorial director Megan Lynch said on Twitter, “So, we pulled an ad today! You all guess why.” (Megan Lynch and Ecco representatives did not reply to queries asking for further information.

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People, Etc.

June 30, 2017

” Most inventory is on sale. Penguin Random House’s Signature Views posted a five-minute “mini-doc” shot as new Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic was preparing to open earlier this spring. Revealed Knopf Children’s released the jacket for Philip Pullman‘s forthcoming THE BOOK OF DUST: La Belle Sauvage, publishing on October 19.

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Supreme Court Postpones February 19 Conference; Appeals Court Affirms $450m Apple Settlement; Docs from the IRS Amazon Case

February 18, 2016

The Supreme Court has postponed its February 19 conference, when they were scheduled to consider Apple’s request to hear an appeal of the ebook antitrust case, as that day will be taken up by a ceremony for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last weekend. The court has also postponed its regularly scheduled orders for Monday, February 22.

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Court to Decide If Revised Family Christian Buyout Goes to Creditor Vote

July 10, 2015

(Today we recap all the major legal cases from the first half of 2015 in a separate piece.) Bankruptcy docs

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Folio Prize Names Eight Nominees

February 10, 2014

The nominees, culled from 80 titles; are: Red Doc, Anne Carson Schroder, Amity Gaige Last Friends, Jane Gardam Benediction, Kent Haruf The Flame Throwers, Rachel Kushner A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride A Naked Singularity, Sergio De La Pava Tenth of December, George Saunders McBride’s book, which already won the Goldsmith Prize, comes from Galley Beggar Press.

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USA Today’s Summer Reads

May 30, 2013

Lancaster The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies by Jonathan Alter Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville by Michael Streissguth Doc: A Memoir by Dwight Gooden and Ellis Henican The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Kennedy’s Last Days by Bill OReilly Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen Second Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Roughan The Eye of God by James Rollins Self-Inflicted

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People, Etc.

March 6, 2013

a $22,000 stipend for students while they take classes their first year, then pays them for teaching during their second” and provides a third year of post-doc support. The 25th annual Triangle Awards, presented on April 25, will honor John D’Emilio as the 2013 recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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Books In the News

March 4, 2013

It’s a very competitive week for new releases, including Anne Carson’s Red Doc, Andrew Pyper’s The Demonologist, and nonfiction from Jeb Bush (on immigration), Sandra Day O’Connor, Christa Parravani’s memoir (touted by multiple booksellers), and basketball coach Pat Summitt. The New England Journal of Medicine gave new life to multiple Mediterranean diet cookbooks and the NYT took note of Britain’s No. 1 fad hit The Fast Diet.

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You’re The Tops, Continued

December 8, 2011

will play as soon as you visit the link: Fiction 1Q84, Haruki Murakami An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roy State of Wonder, Ann Patchett Doc, Mary Doria Russell Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell Nonfiction Grand Pursuit, Sylvia Nasar Hemingway’s Boat, Paul Hendrickson Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Ezra F.

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The May 2011 Indie Next List

March 31, 2011

Here are the ABA’s May selections: 1. The Story of Beautiful Girl, by Rachel Simon Doc: A Novel, by Mary Doria Russell The Snowman, by Jo Nesbo, Don Bartlett (Trans.) The Year We Left Home: A Novel, by Jean Thompson Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, by Mitchell Zuckoff The Coffins of Little Hope, by Timothy Schaffert You Believers, by Jane Bradley Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel, by Geraldine

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, November 15

November 15, 2010

Adam Gallardo and Todd Demong’s 100 GIRLS, to Chris “Doc” Wyatt (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE), by Susan Schulman of Susan Schulman Literary Agency, on behalf of Julian Cautherley at Good n’ Proper Management and Sean O’Reilly. TV Richard Greener’s Locator Novels, THE KNOWLAND RETRIBUTION and THE LACEY CONFESSION, to Fox to be made into a spinoff from the hit series BONES, casting now to shoot in February, by Jill Gillett of RWSG Agency on behalf of Julia Lord Literary Management.

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, November 1

November 1, 2010

co.uk Film: glewis@unitedagents.co.uk Parenting Drs. Yvonne Bohn, Allison Hill, and Alane Park with Melissa Jo Peltier’s THE MOMMY DOCS’ ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PREGNANCY AND BIRTH, from the ob/gyn physicians who star on the television series “Deliver Me,” a comprehensive resource that’s medically reliable and mom-to-mom relatable, to Katie McHugh at Da Capo, at auction, for publication in Spring 2011, by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group (World English).

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, July 19

July 18, 2010

rivlit@sover.net NONFICTION Advice/Relationships Psychologist and “Love Doc” blogger for Psychology Today Dr. Frances Cohen Praver’s WIRED FOR LOVE, a practical guide for bringing intimacy back into long-term relationships, using cutting-edge research on mirror neurons, the tiny brain cells that reflect our vast capacity for empathy and emotional attunement, and her decades of experience as a therapist, to Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks, for publication in 2011, by

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, May 17

May 16, 2010

History/Politics/Current Affairs Founder of the non-profit Wine To Water, 2009 CNN Top 10 Hero, and hell-raising bartender Doc Hendley’s WINE TO WATER, a memoir of the author’s experiences bringing clean water to the displaced people of Darfur and other far-reaching corners of the globe (including, most recently, Haiti); an insight into the adventurous spirit and love for people that inspires his humanitarian work; and an assessment of the world water crisis, to Megan

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Now A Way to Vook Yourself

January 26, 2010

say the platform includes: database management the multimedia elements in an enhanced ebook (text, pricing, video, links and more); production of single XML doc that feeds across different devices and formats; streamlined text (epub) or word importing; instant preview; and simple insert of assets to edit, preview and create. The company has partnered with TurnHere–Vook founder Brad Inman’s previous start-up–to help provide video for those new enhanced ebooks.

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Lunch Weekly for Monday, December 7

December 6, 2009

THE MAD SKULL, the world’s most terrible invention has been stolen and it’s up to the swashbuckling brother and sister team and their super-adventurer father Doc Wilde to solve its mysteries before the macabre Mad Skull uses it to alter reality forever, and DOC WILDE AND THE DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS, to Timothy Travaglini at Putnam, for publication in May 2011, by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (World). ljrennert@mac.

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