Let's Talk Diversity: An All-Women Panel Talks Change at BookExpo 2018
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In one of BookExpo 2018’s final events, five women gathered for a dialogue on diversity and inclusivity - or lack thereof - in the publishing industry.
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Amazon Books: Making the Digital Physical
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On May 25, 2017, the doors officially opened at the new Amazon Books store in Columbus Circle in New York. Another store on 34th Street is expected to open this summer. In November 2015, Amazon — the world’s largest online retailer — opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle. It was an unexpected twist for company that had built its empire by selling books (and now everything else) online. LSP visited the latest Amazon Books venue, located in the city that's ostensibly the heart of America's publishing industry, just days after it opened its doors.
Read MoreA memoirist, and a freedom fighter, visits New York
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In his lifetime, Saadi Yacef has been many things: a freedom fighter; a prisoner; a memoirist; a senator; and a film producer. As the military leader of the National Liberation Front in Algiers, Yacef was a key actor in one of the bloodiest decolonization wars of the 20th century and his memoir was adapted into the iconic 1966 film The Battle of Algiers. LSP recently interviewed Yacef at the Film Forum in New York.
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