The 56th Annual New England Book Show

Now that I think of it, I am a little stunned to be part of a 56-year tradition. This year's book show was held at Boston Symphony Hall, and it was as big an honor as any before for the winners.

This year's event also included the presentation of our "lifetime achievement" Dwiggins Award, as well as acknowledgment of scholarship recipients. Board member David Stirling of Heinemann took the outstanding pictures that are in this post. I will do my best to identify the subjects of each ... please do use the comments section to notify me of any errors. (It's not ink-on-paper, and I am happy to fix!)


Meredith White of the Dwiggins Award Committee introduces the Dwiggins winner in a speech with the traditional element of suspense.



Dwiggins winner Nancy Fenton delivers her acceptance speech.

 

Outgoing president Tom Plain of IBT/Hamilton introduces incoming president Jamie Carter from Copyright Clearance Center (that's me!)

In the purple tie is board member John Rodzvilla. I believe that he is flanked by two Emerson scholarship winners, with Iris Amelia Febres at right.

Northeastern scholarship winner Ingrid Villatta shows her work to Nancy Fenton.

Checking out the winners are two members of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University design team (right).

Stephen Pekich of Victory Productions (and a Dwiggins alumnus) with Breaking the Spanish Barrier.

At left, text and cover designer Ellen Maxwell. The winning books are from Cheng & Tsui.

The two men on the left are board member Tom Campbell (King Printing) and president Tom Plain (IBT/Hamilton).

Very nice picture. I am sorry that I cannot read the name tags!

At left is Stephanie Rineman.

Board member Joanne Sweeney of Candlewick is in red on the right.

Board member Michele Brennan of Bridgeport National Bindery gets a pat on the back from board member Mike Mozina of Brill.

Incoming board officer Laura Wind (left) organized the book show with Michele Brennan (above). At right is Stephanie Grey, professor from Framingham State and art director for the 2011 catalog. 
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Incoming officer Tom Delano (left) appears here with two colleagues from Vista Higher Learning.

A second winning title from Vista Higher Learning.

Pearson is the publisher of the second set of covers displayed on this board.

Glenn Castle of Cengage.

An award-winning title from David R. Godine.

Two 2013 Boston College scholarship recipients.

Incoming board member Bob Bethune (Maple Press) is on the right.

John Corkery and Mike Edson.

Compositor and cover designer Fritz Klaetke with an award-winning title from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Scholarship winner Ingrid Villatta with her husband Jeff Holmes of Harvard University.

Former board member Lisa Diercks (Emerson) is at left with John Rodzvilla. On the right are Bob Kosturko and Gabi Anderson of Beacon Press.

Almost all of the design crew from the Art Institute, with George Restrepo (Rest Design) in black.

For a complete list of winners, visit the Bookbuilders website.

Digital Rights Management and E-Piracy Panel Discussion

On Thursday, March 29, Bookbuilders and the Emerson College Publishing Club present a free panel discussion on Digital Rights Management and E-Piracy.

The forum takes place at the Emerson College Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street in Boston, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. We are excited to announce our three speakers, representing a diverse collection of publishing industry perspectives.

• Jake Furbush, Digital Publishing Manager at the MIT Press, is tasked with overseeing the production and distribution of digital content, as well as the maintenance of in-house initiatives like CISnet—an online collection of titles in the information and computer sciences—and the Press’s own ebook program. Jake began his career as a member of the sales department at Harvard University Press and is happy to be back in academic publishing. 
• Adam Witwer, Director of Content and Publishing Operations at O'Reilly Media, oversees the company's Publishing Services division. He manages print, ebook/digital development, video production, and manufacturing. Adam managed the O’Reilly production department’s transition to an XML-based workflow. In the process, he became an expert in the challenges of publishing to multiple sources and formats from a single source. He now focuses on ebook development at O'Reilly and thinking about the next generation of books.
• Skott Klebe, Information Security Manager at Copyright Clearance Center, has worked in copyright and licensing technology for more than fifteen years, leading the development of some of the largest licensing systems in the world. Skott was the architect of RightsLink, Copyright Clearance Center’s point-of-content licensing system, and is the inventor on several patents in the fields of content and licensing. He speaks regularly at publishing industry events on topics including copyright, technology, and disruption in the ebook marketplace.

The forum will include a robust Q&A session. We ask that you register in advance to attend at www.bbboston.org, and we look forward to seeing you!