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ASJA
 Can't come for the whole day? Not sure you want to commit? Here's a special offer to introduce you to ASJA's annual conference.
For only $75, you can join us for Saturday's late-afternoon sessions and evening reception.
Arrive at at 3:30 PM and select from exciting sessions including:
Then join us at the evening reception where you can meet some of the industry's most successful freelancers and authors. Invest in your career by spending a few hours with ASJA. It's an exciting opportunity you don't want to miss! Register for this offer here.
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Susan Shafer, ASJA
 "I was laughing and sobbing. I think I was also possibly going to fall over," reported illustrator Sophie Blackall, when she heard she won the 2016 Caldecott Medal. Blackall won the prize for her ink and watercolors in Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, written by Lindsay Mattick.
It's understandable that the compelling news had such an emotional effect on Blackall. The Caldecott Medal is the most acclaimed award for artists in the picture book world.
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The New York Times
Pens matter. Ink does not. In the age of Amazon, evaluating antitrust concerns is sometimes twisting government officials into knots. That was made clear, when the Federal Trade Commission blocked the merger of Office Depot and Staples, in part by drawing elaborate distinctions between who buys pens and printer ink cartridges, and how.
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Publishers Weekly
Although the members of a panel discussing possible changes to standard publishing contracts didn’t agree on all points, there was one idea that gained support from all four panelists — the possibility of eliminating different royalty rates for different formats in favor of a flat rate that would cover all book formats.
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The Content Standard
If you work in freelance writing, you care about getting high-paying clients. Not only can higher paying clients better support your livelihood, but they often have more respect for what you do. They understand how much value you provide, and are willing to pay market rates — or higher — for what you offer.
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Medium
In the past nine months we've hosted over 400 LIVE Chats with entrepreneurs, investors, entertainers, athletes, and thought leaders from every industry imaginable. Many of our guests have written some of the most insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking books in categories ranging from science fiction and history, to business non-fiction and memoirs.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, our community wanted to know how.
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Poynter
Social media and apps are a major destination for a large audience of mobile news consumers that may be nearing a saturation point, according to a report released by The Knight Foundation. The report, commissioned from Nielsen by Knight, includes findings from 9,000 panelists who used meters to monitor their app usage. No surprise: The report reflects the consensus that audiences are getting much of their news on mobile devices. Nearly nine out of every 10 Americans (144 million users) now access news and information on smartphones and other mobile devices, up about nine percent from the previous year.
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New Republic
"As if being 1984 weren't enough." Thomas Pynchon, writing in The New York Times Book Review, marked the unnerving year with an honest question about seemingly dystopian technology: "Is It OK to Be a Luddite?" The Association of American Publishers records that by 1984, between 40 and 50 percent of American authors were using word processors.
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