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The Glory Days of the American Booksellers Convention

The ABA Convention (rebranded as Book Expo America, the BEA, in 1995) was the event for book publishing in the United States, put on annually by the American Booksellers Association. I got to see it in its heyday.

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Traditional Publishing Has Lost Its Soul

Traditional publishing made a deal with the devil as it gave up more and more control to Amazon over the last 30 years…it appears now it has lost its soul.

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Holding It Together: Lessons in Book Binding

What’s the “magic” in the middle that holds a book together?

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Book Production Circa 1992

What was life like before desktop publishing?

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Do Books Still Matter?

Are books, the way we once knew them, still relevant?