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February 18, 2010

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February 18, 2010

Branding For Writers
San Francisco, CA
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February 23, 2010

NYC Program & Webcast
How to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever
New York, NY
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April 24-25, 2010

Annual ASJA Conference
New York, NY
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From the President's Desk

Trotting into History with Google 2.0

By Salley Shannon

Publishers are today's livery stable operators. They are destined to die out, or else morph into something else as the way words are carried evolves. We're now on the cusp of the Digital Age. Exactly a hundred years ago, in 1910, we were on the cusp of the Automotive Age.

If you lived in an American town of decent size in 1910, there were at least one and probably several livery stables, where people rented a horse and buggy or boarded their own horses. Livery stables were at the center of town life. You could count on finding one in walking distance of the local hotel and railroad depot.

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How to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever: February 23, 2010, New York City

Watch the Google Book Settlement Workshop from January 20, 2010

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ASJA's wish list for the Google Book Settlement 2: Keep it legal, use an "opt in" -- and please! -- scrap that unnecessary registry

Keep an Eye on Contracts: Contracts Watch is back in action

Justice Department's Google settlement comments pull no punches

ASJA Opposes Google Settlement

The Society Page: January 2010 extracted from the ASJA Monthly Newsletter, and rotating daily:

Peggy Eastman has published a new book of poetic reflections, Ten Women of the Bible: Witnesses to Faith. The common thread that links the featured four Old Testament women and six New Testament women is their willingness to take risks for God.

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