The NYCIP is located in the General Society Landmark Building at 20 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves) in Midtown Manhattan. All programs are FREE.
See below for a list of this year’s Book Fair sponsors!
Saturday, December 1st: 11am to 5pm
10:30am-11:45am
Indie Press Author Read-A-Thon: Notable Indie Authors Read Their Work
Deborah Landau - Intima Press
Claude [...]
Please note the following program change for Saturday, December 1st:
[2:00pm - 2:50pm] Ian MacKaye (Fugazi) on Independent Culture: Q&A with an introduction by Ian Svenonius
[3:00pm - 3:50pm] Keep Your Eyes Open: Ian Svenonius Interviews Photographer Glen E. Friedman (with Slide Show Presentation)
For a complete list of 2007 Book Fair programs, click here.
See you at the Fair!
The 20th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair takes place on Saturday, December 1st and Sunday, December 2nd, at the New York Center for Independent Publishing (an educational program of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen), at 20 West 44th Street in New York City. With over 100 cutting-edge presses from the U.S. [...]
Click here to purchase tickets to the Gala Benefit
Peter Mayer, publisher of Overlook Press, will be this year’s recipient of the New York Center for Independent Publishing’s (NYCIP) Poor Richard Award for outstanding contributions to independent book publishing. The award will be presented to Mr. Mayer by special guest presenter Ed Victor, the internationally renowned [...]
According to The New York Times, the Library of Congress has agreed with UNESCO to join the World Digital Library Project, currently in its testing phase and not available for public use until next year. “The digital library is searchable in seven languages, with video commentaries from curators alongside material including original maps, manuscripts, photographs [...]
According to Publisher’s Weekly, The Lace Reader, an independently published debut novel by Brunonia Barry, that received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly in early August has now received a seven-figure world English rights deal with William Morrow for that book and a second. Several publishing houses competed for the rights including Grand Central and Hyperion, [...]
Nominations are now being accepted for the third William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. This award, given by Stanford University Libraries in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, recongizes newly published works of fiction and non-fiction with a $12,500 award for the winner in each category,
The prize is designed to encourage new or emerging writers [...]
The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America’s literary magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines - [...]
REBEL VOICES, a new play based on Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s (Haymarket Press) best-selling book Voices of a People’s History of the United States (http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100666900).
November 10 - December 16
Opening night, November 18, with special appearance by Howard Zinn
TICKETS: $21 in previews, $41 after November 17
By phone: 212-352-3101
The play, in its debut at Culture Project, [...]
How could the NYCIP possibly make a perfect Book Fair weekend even better? All exhibiting publishers are invited to take part in the Inaugural NYCIP Mini-Rights Fair!
**WHEN: Friday, November 30th, 1 - 6pm
**WHERE: NYCIP, 20 West 44th St., New York City
**RSVP TO: christopher@nycip.org
Sub-rights and foreign rights are an extremely lucrative additional revenue stream for [...]
