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García-Febo Elected REFORMA Vice President by Aída Bardales, 7/15/2008 9:00:00 AM
Loida García-Febo has been elected vice president/ president-elect 2009–10 of REFORMA, the National Association To Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. More
García-Febo Elected REFORMA Vice President by Aída Bardales - 07/15/2008
Loida García-Febo has been elected vice president/ president-elect 2009–10 of REFORMA, the National Association To Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking.
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Domínguez Departs from Rayo Children’s Division by Adriana V. López - 07/15/2008
Editor Adriana Domínguez’s layoff from Rayo’s children’s division has left the Spanish-language book industry scratching their heads.
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NEA Launches The Big Read Mexico by Aída Bardales - 07/15/2008
This fall, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will launch The Big Read Mexico, part of the larger The Big Read program, the largest literature program in the United States.
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B&T Launches Programa Puente by Carmen Cusido - 07/15/2008
Offering a “bridge” for more than 40 Mexican publishers to the U.S. market, Baker& Taylor (B&T), the Bridgewater, NJ-based book distributor, launched Programa Puente (Program Bridge) this summer, including books from a wide range of genres such as young adult, fiction, and non-fiction.
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BEA Attendance Low in Los Angeles by Aída Bardales - 06/15/2008
This year’s location for BookExpo America (BEA), which took place in Los Angeles from May 29 to June 1, resulted in poor attendance and overall low energy.
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10th Latino Book Awards Go to Popular and Under-the-Radar Titles by Ximena Diego - 06/15/2008
The winners of this year’s International Latino Book Awards included best sellers like Rhonda Byrne’s El Secreto (The Secret, Atria Books) and Isabel Allende’s La suma de los días (The Sum of Our Days, Rayo), as well as less-familiar titles from small, independent (and unorthodox) publishing houses.
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ImpreMedia and Rayo Serialize De La Hoya Autobiography by Carmen Cusido - 06/15/2008
ImpreMedia, a leading online and print Hispanic news company, has joined forces with HarperCollins’s Rayo to promote boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya’s autobiography.
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Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Automated Systems Librarian, South Texas College; Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint July 23, 2008 Brownsville's library helps city brace for Dolly
I hope the weather's better where you are. Heavy winds and rain started in the m... More
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
Publishing in Tough Times
When I read a recent New York Times article about how the recession is affecting Hispanic immigrants, I wound up thinking about the book business.
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