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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: What’s on Today’s Breakfast Menu?
Three authors well-known to booksellers and one debut author celebrated for her work on another stage share the spotlight at this morning’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast.
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BEA 2013: YA Buzz: Books with Identity Issues
The five books presented at BEA 2013's Young Adult Editors' Buzz panel all featured main characters who are either sampling, or being thrust into, different identities.
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BEA 2013: Literary Ethics for Reviewers
As part of a project to develop a code of “best practices” for book reviews, the NBCC hosted a panel to present data from its ongoing survey and discuss questions that have arisen in the process.
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BEA 2013: The Fight Over Digital Resale
The debate over digital resale continues, this time at the IDPF 2013 Digital Book Conference in a panel featuring a familiar set of debaters.
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Stability Brings Hope at BEA
Although some reports from the consumer press may have overstated the health of the independent book business, booksellers at this year’s BookExpo America do seem in better spirits.
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BEA 2013: Oneworld Embraces Its World
Oneworld Publications is officially introducing at BEA a new digital imprint that literally creates a buzz: Oneworld Expresso—the British publisher’s short story imprint.
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BEA 2013: Indie Author's Battle
"I'm using the power of the pen to get the government to back off, and to educate everyone," explains Mike Daugherty, the author of The Devil Inside the Beltway, a self-published first-person account of his ongoing battle against the federal government.
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BEA 2013: Audio Publishers Hear Out Brafman
A bestselling author and organizational expert, Ori Brafman laid out a plan for the audio industry to better influence consumers in a lively and interactive keynote that kicked off APAC in New York.
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BEA 2013: Being Social Matters
Moderator Kirsten Hess, director of events and marketing at R.J. Julia Booksellers, kicked off Wednesday afternoon's panel acknowledging, "2-3 years ago, social media was not important enough to bring up in a business plan." In 36 months, quite a lot changed, as social media accounted for the social portion of Being Social: Reaching Your Customers and Community.
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Two Books in Tandem from Gene Yang
Gene Luen Yang, author of the acclaimed graphic novel American Born Chinese, returns to BEA with two books -- Boxers and Saints, the story of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
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BEA 2013: Editors Panel Participants Buzz About Life, Death, and Everything In Between
If there was a common theme to the six books presented by six editors at the Editors Buzz panel at Javits Wednesday, it could be that “hell is other people,” and death, just like birth, is an inevitable fact of life.
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PW BEA Show Daily, May 30, 2013
Read the complete May 30, 2013 PW BEA Show Daily to keep up with all the goings-on at Book Expo America.
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BEA 2013: Chelsea Handler MC’s Thursday Author Breakfast
Thursday’s author breakfast involved time travel, Theodore Roosevelt, storytelling, Chelsea Handler, and even a quote from Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” After the presentation of this year’s PW Sales Rep of the Year Award to Bruce Joshua Miller of Miller Trade Book Marketing, and Bookstore of the Year to Square Books in Oxford, Miss., which in turn gave PW a framed piece of the store’s wooden balcony, Handler took over as mistress of ceremonies.
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BEA 2013: EFA’s Outreach
The Editorial Freelancers Association just might be the book publishing industry’s most powerful secret weapon, when deadlines loom and staff resources are already stretched beyond reasonable limits.
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BEA 2013: Being Social Matters
Moderator Kirsten Hess, director of events and marketing at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Conn, kicked off Wednesday afternoon's panel by observing that "two to three years ago, social media was not important enough to bring up in a business plan." In 36 months, quite a lot has changed, as social media was the central concept of the panel "Being Social: Reaching Your Customers and Community."
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BEA 2013: An Eclectic Mixture At Adult Book Buzz Panel
It's a "perfect loop"—of editors, sales reps, and booksellers—who create buzz for the books they love, an excitement fueled by trust, faith, and knowledge, noted moderator Betsy Burton, co-owner of the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, during Wednesday afternoon's Editors' Buzz panel.
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BEA 2013: Suchomel's Big Move to Perseus
Following his surprise departure as president of the Independent Publishers Group in March, Mark Suchomel is returning to the distribution business as head of a new unit that will be part of Perseus Book Group's Publishers Group West division. Legato Publishers Group will be based in Suchomel's hometown of Chicago and will look to build a client list of between 30 to 40 publishers over the next two to three years.
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BEA 2013: Girls Outpace Boys in Digital Use
Kristen McLean, project editor of Bookigee, and Carl Kulo, a Bowker Market Research senior project analyst, kicked off the ABA Day of Education by providing the latest trends in the children's book market.
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BEA 2013: IngramSpark Sparks
In an effort to streamline its print-on-demand offerings for small publishers, Ingram is launching IngramSpark, a program that will offer an inexpensive and easy-to-use platform for small publisher clients to distribute print and digital titles. IngramSpark, which is being announced at BEA and set to launch in July, is aimed at making the distributor's current systems easier to use.
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BEA 2013: New Moves for BookWorks
PubMatch, the global rights organization that Publishers Weekly co-owns with Combined Book Exhibit, has forged a partnership with the self-publishing association BookWorks to launch a new BookWorks Web site. The new site, which is live today, is part of a BookWorks initiative designed to expand the benefits offered to BookWorks members.
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