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One could, if one wished, explain away David Taylor's enthusiasm for print-on-demand technology simply by noting that it's part of his job; he is, after all, president of Ingram's Lightning Source, a global provider of on-demand and distribution solutions for the publishing industry.

Edelweiss, the interactive, online catalog platform from Above the Treeline, drew booksellers and other book industry professionals eager for a preview to Friday and Saturday sessions at BookExpo America and to the company's booth on the trade show floor.

Interactive, online catalogs are coming this fall, and booksellers and others will have an opportunity to see how they'll work during BookExpo America. Demonstrations of Edelweiss will be presented by Above the Treeline at Booth #4130 on the trade show floor, and on Friday and Saturday mornings from 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in Room 1E02 on the lower concourse (just down the hall from the ABA Lounge) at the Javits Convention Center.

During a 48-hour span at BookExpo America, Perseus Books Group will publish BOOK: The Sequel, a collection of first sentences submitted by the public for yet-to-be-written sequels to any book ever published. The rapid-fire, multi-formatted creation of BOOK will demonstrate, right on the trade show floor, that publishing is agile and tech-current.

Chronicle Books and We Are What We Do a U.K.-based nonprofit, have partnered to bring Change the World for Ten Bucks: Small Actions x Lots of People = Big Change to the U.S.

In advance of Earth Day 2009 (April 22), Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing provided a "green" box in the Spring Children's White Box mailing, which shipped late last month to bookstores active in the IndieBound movement. The eco-friendly "recycled and recyclable promotion-in-a-box" serves to emphasize the green mission of S&S's line of Little Green Books.

The first full day of educational programming at ABA's Fourth Annual Winter Institute (Wi4), sponsored by Ingram Book Company/Ingram Publisher Services, will culminate in a celebratory reception featuring 38 authors, including both well-known indie favorites and exciting new voices.

On Thursday, January 15, in an effort to help clarify how the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) affects booksellers, the American Booksellers Association sent an e-mail to more than 20 children's publishers to ascertain what they will be doing to comply with CPSIA. As publisher responses are received, ABA will share the information with members via Bookselling This Week.

A new consumer product safety law limiting the content of lead in children's products, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which will go into effect on February 10, has become a source of major concern for booksellers, publishers, and toy manufacturers, as well as for a number of other businesses that manufacture or sell children's products.

Poet to Read at Obama's Inauguration Graywolf Press has announced that poet Elizabeth Alexander will read an original poem at the January 20 inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the U.S.