BEA 2000 Audio Exhibitors
-- 5/23/00
ALLEGRO CORPORATION
One of North America's largest music distributors, with a variety of music including New Age, Celtic, World, jazz, swing, and classical. Loans retail stores in-store listening systems; the stores pay only the wholesale cost of the CDs. Featured audio: A variety of CDs, plus two pre-paks featuring aromatherapy oils packaged with a CD, one featuring Native American music, the other featuring classical music and nature sounds. Booth: 1257.
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE.COM BOOKS
Publishes books and videos on alternative medicine subjects. Featured video: The Cancer Forum, a seven-video set. Booth: 3731.
AUDIO LITERATURE
Publisher of book-based audios, specializing in the areas of spirituality, inspiration, philosophy and religion, as well as works of literature and nonfiction. Featured audio: the bestselling Conversations with God series; The Screwtape Letters; Codependent No More; What Color Is Your Parachute?; Zen Mind; Random Acts of Kindness; P ms of Rumi; Genesis. Booth: 1751.
THE AUDIO PARTNERS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
Publishes abridged and unabridged audiobooks: fiction, biographies, p try, performances, children's, business, self-help, and audio originals. Distributed by PGW, Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Featured audio: 10 Mystery Masters titles by such authors as Ellis Peters, G.K. Chesterton and Colin Dexter, as well as new Cover to Cover unabridged classics; and Edith's Story: Courage, Love, and Survival During WWII by Edith Velmans. Drawings: daily drawings for five free audio bestsellers, for booksellers and librarians. Discounts: visit booth for special discount information. Booth: 3950.
AUDIO PLAYWRIGHTS
Creates and produces audio plays-full-cast dramatic presentations, optimized for audio media. Featured audio: Too Dead to Swing, an original murder mystery set in 1940 and highlighted by swing-era songs, performed by a cast of Broadway stars. Discounts: musical merchandise tie-in. Booth: 4050.
AUDIO PUBLISHERS ASSN.
Not-for-profit trade organization consisting of more than 200 member companies including publishers, retailers, distributors, and suppliers along with those industries related to the production, promotion, and sale of audiobooks. Giveaways: Audiobook Month promo items, including posters and samplers. Drawings: daily. Events: Audio Publishers Assn. Annual Conference on June 1 is open to BEA attendees on a fee basis, as is the Audie Award ceremony June 2. Booth: 4049.
B&B AUDIO INC.
Audiobooks in all genres. New product line includes the Audiobook Travelpak, which combines two audiobooks with a Walkman, headset and batteries in a retail-ready box. Imprints: Books to Go and Buckingham, Beacon Hardy. Featured audio: When Conventions Were Conventions: Republicans; When Conventions Were Conventions: Democrats, both read by Robert Trout; The Savage Truth on Money by Terry Savage. Booth: 1236.
THE BABY EINSTEIN COMPANY
Produces developmental media for babies and toddlers, including videos, musical recordings, books, flashcards and toys. Featured audio: Baby Mozart, Baby Bach, Baby Beethoven, baby-friendly introductions to classical music on CD and cassette. Featured video and DVD: Baby Einstein, Baby Mozart, Baby Bach, Baby Shakespeare, Baby Van Gogh. Booth: 262.
BARRON'S EDUCATIONAL SERIES INC.
Publisher of foreign language self-study programs. Featured audio: Fully revised and updated editions of the bestselling Now You're Talking book/cassette language programs. Booth: 912.
BOOKPEOPLE
Full-service wholesaler of more than 30,000 titles from more than 2,000 independent and trade and small presses. Booth: 2041.
DIAMOND COMIC DISTRIBUTORS INC.
The largest distributor of English-language comics and related merchandise, with distribution centers throughout North America and the U.K. Featured video: A wide variety of manga and Hong Kong action videos, including Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z. Booth: 420.
DREAM FLIGHT PRODUCTIONS
Produces quality children's audio, both music and spoken word. Featured audio (all by Patti Teel): The Floppy Sleep Game with orchestrations to help children fall asleep; Kids World, a collection of original songs dealing with cooperation, reaching goals, tolerance and bedtime fears; Christmas Is Love, a collection of holiday favorites and original songs. Booth: 156.
GOLDHILL HOME MEDIA INT'L
A diversified home-video production and distribution organization. Booth: 1340.
HCI
Publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul and other self-help audio products. Featured audio: Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul; Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III; Chicken Soup for the Golden Family Soul; Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul; Bradshaw on the Family; Bradshaw on Healing the Shame That Binds You; Bradshaw on Healing the Child Within. Booth: 4431.
HARBOR PRESS
Publishes consumer health books and videos with special emphasis on natural health and alternative healing. Titles are marketed through trade and mail-order channels. Featured video: Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth-The Video, a companion to the Doubleday book. Booth: 3731.
HAY HOUSE
A leading international publisher of self-help and motivational books, audios, videos and sidelines. Featured audio: Unleashing Your Psychic Potential by John Edward; Understanding Your Angels and Meeting Your Guides by John Edward; The Spiritual Journey-A Dialogue Between Richard Moss, M.D., and Deepak Chopra, M.D.; Natural Healing; Past-Life Regression with the Angels by Doreen Virtue. Booth: 3658.
HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE PRESS
Publisher of books, audios, videos and sidelines on mind-body-spirit, including titles on yoga, meditation, holistic health and Eastern philosophy. Featured video: Yoga: Mastering the Basics series. Booth: 1337.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
An independent publisher of adult trade fiction and non-fiction. Featured audio: Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien (unabridged); Best American Short Stories of the Century, Vol. 1 and 2; The Human Stain by Philip Roth (unabridged). Booths: 2916, 3016.
JUDSON PRESS
A trade publisher of religious books and merchandise, specializing in African-American preaching resources. Featured audio: Essential Taylor, a 140-minute selection of sermons from the five-volume The Words of Gardner Taylor. Booth: 3619.
LAUGH IT OFF PRODUCTIONS/FULL CIRCLE PUBLISHING
Offers a selection of products from author/speaker/comedian Steve Rizzo that teach how to use humor to deal with obstacles and adversity, including terminal illness, disabling injury, career change, divorce or even death. Featured audio: Laugh It Off... You Owe It to Yourself. Featured video: Nothing but the Funny Stuff. Booth: 2714.
MUSIC DESIGN
A distributor of contemporary instrumental music including New Age, Celtic, Native American, world, jazz, classical and children's, serving bookstores worldwide. Also offers self-improvement videos and inspirational sideline items designed for personal growth, including angel and Rune cards, and I Ching Sticks. Discounts: Additional 5% off wholesale price and free UPS Ground service on orders placed at the show. Booths: 1434-1435.
NARADA PRODUCTIONS INC.
A leading music label in Celtic, new flamenco, jazz, world, New Age and acoustic genres. Rouster includes Jesse Cook, Vas, Tingstad & Rumbel and Billy McLaughlin. Featured audio: Spring 2000 and summer 2000 releases. Booths: 1434, 1435.
NEWSTAR MEDIA INC.
One of the largest independent audiobook publishers, with more than 1,800 titles covering every genre. Booth: 1249.
NEW WORLD LIBRARY
Featured audio: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation by Alan Watts, read by the author; simultaneous release with the book. Booths: 1756, 1757.
PACIFIC HERITAGE BOOKS
Publishes quality fiction and nonfiction titles to bridge cultural understanding between Asians and non-Asians; to fill the need for multicultural educational materials; and to focus on the Asian-American experience and culture, including feng shui, entrepreneurship, business and history. Featured audio: Lunar New Year Song and Chinese Zodiac Animal Song, traditional songs sung in English and Chinese. Booth: 3906.
PORTLAND PRESS
Publishes books, videos, accessory products and Studio Edition glass by artist Dale Chihuly. Featured video: Chihuly Video Boxed Set, a six-video set containing the titles Chihuly Niijima Floats, Chihuly in Action, Chihuly River of Glass, Chihuly Working with Lino Tagliapetra, Chihuly Atlantic and Chihuly Working with Pino Nignoretto. Booth: 2373.
QUEST BOOKS
Quest Books is an imprint of the Theosophical Publishing House, the publishing arm of the Theosophical Society in America, which has published books by leading cultural thinkers on world religions, spirituality, self-help, transpersonal psychology, creativity, and alternative health since 1965. Featured audio: The Bhagavad Gita, trans. by Annie Besant, read by Paul Meier; At the Feet of the Master by Jiddu Krishnamurti, read by Dana Ivey; Light on the Path by Mabel Collins, read by Ivey; The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky, read by Paul Meier. Booth: 3731.
RANDOM HOUSE AUDIO PUBLISHING GROUP
A trade publisher of audiobooks, including fiction and nonfiction, adult and children's titles, cassette and CD, abridged and unabridged. Booth: 2231.
SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP
Founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920, company is the publisher for the complete line of Yogananda's books and recorded talks, and works by members of the Self-Realization Fellowship monastic communities. Featured audio: Chants and Prayers: The Voice of Paramahansa Yogananda; Songs of Love for God: Indian Bhajans by Brahmacharini Mirabai, Vol. 1; and an as-yet-untitled CD featuring the Lotus Ensemble performing instrumental arrangements of devotional music from Yogananda's book Cosmic Chants. Booth: 3726.
SOUNDS TRUE
Publishes original audio programs, instructional video, and world music. Featured audio: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield; Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft by Natalie Goldberg; Radical Self-Acceptance by Tara Brach; Absolute Meditation by Pama Chodron; Ecstatic Jewish Practices for Women by Tirzah Firestone; Becoming an Empath by Karla McKlaren; The Break-up Bible by Daphne Rose Kingma. Featured video: Natural Meditation by Lama Durya Das; Qi Healing: Parts I and II by Ken Cohen; Power by Gabrielle Roth. Booth: 1334.
TRAFALGAR SQUARE PUBLISHING
Publisher and leading U.S. distributor of British publishers, including audiobooks from HarperCollins U.K., Hodder Headline, Random House U.K. and Transworld, as well as audios and videos from the company's own Equestrian publishing program. Featured audio: Hornblower and the Commodore; Hornblower in the West Indies; The Wallace & Gromit Audio Collection; The Jeffrey Archer Audio Collection. Booth: 1622.
WALDMAN HOUSE PRESS
Quality publishers of gift books, children's books, and specialty fiction. Featured audio: A Cup of Christmas Tea, written and read by Tom Hegg. Booth: 4143.
WALTSAN PUBLISHING
Publishes cdBooks, featuring text, graphics, and audio files of the authors reading their manuscripts. cdBooks are cross-platform and may be read on PCs, Macs or Unix computers. Featured titles: Savage Whispers by Ruth Hudson Savage; A Voyage Through the Cosmos by Robert Marcom; Getting Yourself Together by Sandra S. Hildret-Wellborn; The Scarlet Pimpernel and Other Tales by Baroness Orczy. Booth: 4671.
WARNER BROS. WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING
The book and audio licensing arm of Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Licenses Warner Bros. properties to publishers worldwide. Also operates Kid's WBI Music, the second largest children's music label in North America, in partnership with Rhino Records. Featured audio: classic music from Scooby Doo, Loony Tunes and Space Ghost; a preview of the new Powerpuff Girls album. BEA guests are invited to stop by and preview these albums on the Kid's WBI Music listening station. Booth: LA29.
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