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BEA Show Daily 2011: A Crafty Business
These days it's rare for a publisher to announce a 47% increase in trade book sales, but thanks to its new Stash Books imprint, 28-year-old C&T Publishing can lay claim to that triumph for 2010.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: What's in Store?
What is the future of book publishing? If only Dr. Margaret J. Pearson could predict! Pearson, the author of a new translation of the I Ching—The Original I Ching: An Authentic Translation of the Book of Changes (Tuttle, Sept.)—is a true believer in the power of the popular and time-tested "fortune-telling" book. But when it comes to outright prediction, she explains that that is not how it works. "I Ching readings are a method of gaining insight," she says. "I don't know the future either. But if someone wants to know the future of their publishing house, this process could help them gain clarity on the timing of a particular decision. That's what kings and queens used it for."
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BEA Show Daily 2011: A Historical Imprint
This afternoon, if you see Ben Franklin partying at the Perseus booth (4415), don't be alarmed—you're not dreaming. After all, who better than a founding father to help celebrate the launch of Regnery History, the new Regnery Publishing imprint.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Kudos to Pannell Winners
Two bookstores received the WNBA Pannell Award, given annually since 1983 by the Women's National Book Association. The 2011 winner in the general bookstore category is Queen Anne Books in Seattle, and Fairytales Bookstore & More in Nashville clinched the award in the children's specialty store category.
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PW's BEA Show Daily Available Online
Not at the show and need a digital edition of PW Show Daily? Get the digital edition of the publication through Exact Editions or Scribd.
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BEA 2011: Building a Children's Book Community
The title of Monday morning’s first session for the Day of Education’s children’s edition was "Mind Share into Market Share"--a theme that carried over into the rest of the day’s sessions, as booksellers first brainstormed how to more effectively use their expertise to increase sales in general, and then how to best reach teen readers who have come of age in the digital era.
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BEA 2011: Learning About More than E-Books at ABA Day of Education
"These are really interesting, challenging times. And there are distinct opportunities," said Becky Anderson, co-owner of Anderson’s Book Shop in Naperville, Ill., at the opening session of the American Booksellers Association Day of Education, which marked her first official appearance as newly elected president of ABA. The changes that she was referring to were visible throughout the day, from the attendees—who include Brad Graham, the about-to-be new owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., and Jacqueline Kellachan, who purchased the Golden Notebook in Woodstock, N.Y., last fall—to the panels themselves.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Breakfast Treats
Attendees at this morning's Children's Book & Author Breakfast will be served their share of treats, most notably a stellar lineup of speakers—Sarah Dessen, Kevin Henkes, and Brian Selznick—and master of ceremonies Julianne Moore.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: International Bestseller Auel Hits in Europe
Jean M. Auel's The Land of Painted Caves was the big story on international bestseller lists in April. The book, "30,000 years in the making and 31 years in the writing," according to PW's review, is the sixth and final volume in the Earth's Children series. It landed high on bestseller lists in Europe: #1 in the Netherlands and Sweden, #2 in Spain, #4 in France, #5 in the U.K., and #9 in Germany.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Trump on The Stump with Kiyosaki
Long before Donald Trump contemplated running for the country's highest office, he worked out of the corner office of many successful businesses. Now, he has reunited with anther successful businessman and coauthor, Robert Kiyosaki, in Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—and Why Most Don't (Plata Publishing, Oct.). Adding to the star power of the book is Mark Burnett's foreword.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Let's Make a Deal
This A–Z listing includes specials available to retailers who place orders at BEA. Many exhibitors are offering free freight and/or extra discount points. Remember, this is only a sampling of floor deals—keep your eyes open while you walk the exhibit floor for many more money-saving opportunities.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Reunited, and It Feels So Good
Among Jean Feiwel's publishing milestones during her 22-year tenure at Scholastic were two phenomenally successful middle-grade paperback series, the Baby-sitters Club by Ann M. Martin, and R.L. Stine's Goosebumps. Between 1986 and 2000, the publisher released 213 Baby-sitters Club novels, which sold more than 176 million copies. Debuting in the early '90s, Stine's original Goosebumps series included 87 titles and sold more than 250 million copies in the U.S. alone.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Soars
The folks from independent publisher Sourcebooks, headquartered in Naperville, Ill., arrive at BEA with plenty to celebrate. For the first time in its history, the company this spring had three titles appear on a New York Times bestseller list in a single week. Landing on the newspaper's picture book bestseller list the week of March 26 were a trio of titles published under the Sourcebooks Jabberwocky imprint: Kristi Yamaguchi's debut children's book, Dream Big, Little Pig! illustrated by Tim Bowers; and Jennifer Fosberry's My Name Is Not Isabella and My Name Is Not Alexander, both illustrated by Mike Litwin.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Buzzing the Younger Set
This year, BEA has expanded its schedule of Editors Buzz forums and is staging a separate panel featuring editors of middle-grade books in addition to those featuring editors of young adult and adult books. The venues give editors a chance to spotlight a forthcoming book that they deem especially promising, and give booksellers firsthand early word about some of the titles they'll soon be selling.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: The Year of the Tablets
It's the year of the tablet computer—although some would say it's the year of the iPad, Apple's groundbreaking tablet computer device. Launched just over a year ago, the iPad has now been joined by the iPad 2, and the Apple store can barely keep the device in stock.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: God Speaketh
The bestselling author of all time (you can rack up some serious sales over several thousand years) has finally agreed to "telleth all." The Last Testament: A Memoir by God with David Javerbaum (Simon & Schuster, Nov.) promises to be the ultimate celebrity autobiography, as God goes behind the chapters of the Old Testament, offers startling "dish" about all aspects of the universe and creatures therein (beginning with Adam and Steve and ending with Snooki), puts to rest longstanding disputes concerning which athletes and teams he actually supports, and offers his "inside picks" for the next 93 Super Bowls.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Sock It to You
It's the 20th anniversary of the late Ron Zemke's business classic, Delivering Knock Your Socks Off Service, and Amacom will be debuting the updated and revised fifth edition of the bestseller (more than 500,000 sold) at BEA. Written by Performance Research Associates, which was founded by Zemke, the latest edition will include new material on communicating with customers through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, taking ownership of "service encounters" (the industry term for interacting with customers), and responding positively to negative feedback.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: The Art of a Broken Record
Every year Guinness World Records uses the occasion of BEA to give booksellers the first official glimpse of its latest edition of Guinness World Records.Another thing Guinness World Records does every year at BEA is bring along one of its biggest record holders. All day today, Ernestine Shepherd, who at 74 is the oldest female bodybuilder, will be in booth 3639 and taking on challenges to her chin-up expertise.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Barron's Celebrates 70 Years
It all began with a mimeograph machine. In August 1939, an enterprising young man named Manuel Barron opened Barron's Textbook Exchange, a used-book store located near the Brooklyn College campus. When local students began asking for review materials, particularly anything on the New York State Regents exams, Barron obtained recent tests from New York State and, after the store closed for the day, began making mimeograph copies.
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BEA Show Daily 2011: Qbend Offers Full-Flavored E-books
Are there any publishers not concerned about growing—or even entering—the e-book market these days? Qbend, a company launched at Frankfurt in 2010, presents itself as a gateway to digital book publishing and sales for publishers who are unsure of which format to use or resources to invest in the market.
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