The Book Industry Study Group convened their annual members meeting in New York — and marked their 40th anniversary — after an admittedly “tough year” with enthusiastic anticipation for incoming executive director Brian O’Leary and a new strategic plan to execute. Treasurer and new board chair Maureen McMahon of Kaplan presented the budget and revealed some of the challenges the organization has faced, with a change to accrual accounting and problems with their membership database management leading to a significant net loss of roughly $240,000 (on expenditures of $1.304 million) in the previous fiscal year, now rebalanced in the unaudited […]
