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Last chance! ISBN-13 initiates January 1, 2007

January 1, 2007, the due date for complete ISBN-13 implementation fast approaches - with just days left to complete the switch from 10 to 13 digit book identification numbers publishers, retailers, wholesalers, libraries, and distributors who have not yet addressed the necessary changes must scramble to keep up with the rest of the industry worldwide.

Information on how to make the switch can be found both at the ISBN official website and at the Book Industry Study Group website. Free tools, industry progress statistics, and the what's, why's, and how's can be found at both.

ISBN 13 for Dummies free PDFAlso, available for download is a free copy of the ISBN-13 for Dummies PDF, produced and provided by BISG to aid the book industry in making the switch as easily as possible.










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What we're reading:

Highlighting some of our favorite online publishing industry resources for information:

Book Business MagazineBook Business was launched as BookTech the Magazine in 1998 as the magazine for book production and manufacturing. The hugely successful publication has evolved with the changes in the book market, and has expanded its mission to have a wider appeal to all business executives at book publishing companies.
They offer free subscriptions here.

Reader's Read Blog - Blogging the latest book news: plus excerpts, bestseller lists and trends.

Book Industry Study Group - for the latest on the ISBN-13 transition scheduled for January 2007!

and The Institute for the Future of the Book - for a look at innovations in the print-media-gone-digital arena.

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Best Books of 2006

Publishers Weekly has just published it's report on the Best Books of 2006.
Categories in this year's list include: fiction, poetry, non fiction, mysteries, fantasy/sci fi, romance, comics, religion, lifestyle, and a few children's categories.
The list is extensive at 100 titles and includes work by familliar names such as: Cormac McCarthy, Seth Godin, Alan Moore, Julia Child, as well as many, many more well known, new, and notable authors.

You will find the entire list, as well as an opportunity to sound off on your own best-of list for 2006, here.

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Upcoming: ALA Midwinter meeting

ALA logo
Just a reminder that the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting is scheduled for January 19-24, 2007 and will be held in Seattle, Washington.

From the official event page:
"The exhibits will be held January 19-22, 2007 in Washington State Convention & Trade Center, located in downtown Seattle at 7th and Pike Streets. The Exhibits Ribbon-Cutting will be held Friday, January 19 at 5:15 pm preceding the All-Conference Reception on the Exhibit Floor from 5:30 - 7:30 pm."

To learn more about the event and who will be there, click here.
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Top stories in publishing this week

From Publishers Weekly top news stories this week:

Amazon teams up with HP to increase print on demand services.

Christine Zika joins Bookspan's Madison Park Press as executive editor.

Fulcrum Publishing names Sam Scinta president and publisher, a move up from his previous position as associate publisher.

Read more of the industry's top news stories at Publishers Weekly, or here in our very own newsroom.

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