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Isaac Fitzgerald

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As BookExpo America launches “independent booksellers are enjoying a pleasant surprise: Membership is up.”

To be fair, the increase is small (“from 1,401 a year ago to 1,410”), but the teensy positive bump is “a deluge in comparison to the past two decades, when membership dropped from more than 3,000 to last year’s low.” Learn more here.

(via PW)

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Isaac Fitzgerald
Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.

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