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BookExpo America 2010: American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression Celebrates 20 Years
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression is celebrating its 20th anniversary at BookExpo America next week. To commemorate the anniversary, the organization has issued a timeline highlighting some of the battles it has fought since 1990, including the successful fight against the federal Pornography Victims' Compensation Act and the fight for reader privacy. ABFFE has also created stickers that it hopes members and others will wear during the convention to show their support for the organization and its mission.
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BookExpo America 2010: The London Book Fair Invites You for Tea (and Networking) at BEA
Because so many of you couldn't make it to the London Book Fair because of an Icelandic Volcano, The London Book Fair today announced that it will bring a little of the London Book Fair to you at this year's BEA, in the form of an "Anglo-themed complementary business lounge." The lounge will be situated in the 4E Terrace off the Crystal Palace, and will feature meeting areas, an internet cafe, and a plasma screen showing a selection of LBF 2010 seminar highlights.
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BookExpo America 2010: Busman's Holiday
To address publisher concerns about adding a public component to BookExpo America, Reed Exhibitions started New York Book Week. The week-long long celebration of books and authors is intended to focus attention on literary events that are taking place throughout New York City during the week of the show, starting Sunday May 23. Then on Monday evening May 24, the American Booksellers Association is inviting booksellers who are in New York for BEA to a visit 13 of their brethren, who are planning receptions. Below is a list of welcome events along with Book Week events to be held at independent bookstores. For a complete schedule, including readings at the 92nd Street Y, Barnes & Noble, and the New York Public Library system, go to the New York Book Week Web site.
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BEA Sets Ticket Policy for Streisand Event
While Barbra Streisand’s keynote on the Tuesday night of BEA will be a free event, open to all those registered for the trade show, tickets will be doled out on a first come, first served basis. BookExpo announced today that tickets to Streisand’s keynote, set for Tuesday May 25, can be picked up at the Opening Night Keynote Ticket Counter, located next to the Autographing Counter in the main registration area. The Keynote Ticket Counter will be open on Monday, May 24, from 1 pm to 5 pm and then again on Tuesday from 7 am to 5 pm. The Ticket Counter will, however, close once all available tickets have been given away. Only one ticket is available per person, and your BEA badge should be obtained before you try and get your ticket.
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A Librarian Walks into...
If Rodney Dangerfield were a librarian at BEA, he might say: “we don't get any respect.” (Dangerfield, M.L.S., has excellent grammar.) Librarians are considered the dowdy, poor relations at the BEA publishing family reunions. We pay less to attend, and we don't spend much money there, and so our long-lost cousins in publishing are not always overjoyed to see us at the party.
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Around the Booths
Compiled by Jill A. Tardiff, John Niernberger, and Diane Patrick 1 to 1 Publishers This first-time exhibitor offers book, audio, and DVD combos on various subjects developed by a team of authors, educators, and therapists. Featured: Sensual Yoga for Couples; Sexual Secrets & Erotic Encounters (anthology); Private Tutor: Your Complete SAT Math Prep Course with Amy Lucas; Hollywood Best!; Int...
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Deep Travel on the High Line
It seems improbable, but it's one of the new glories of New York that all any of us has to do to radically reshape our thoughts about the city is to climb up a wide flight of steps. Or, even easier, take a quick elevator ride. The steps and elevators are the entrances to the High Line, New York's first great 21st-century park, a lushly planted, all-upstairs affair that—unlike any other pa...
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New Head for a New BEA
Quality not quantity may be a cliché, but it is one Steve Rosato embraces as he gets ready for his first BookExpo America as event director. Rosato has been working with BEA parent company Reed Exhibitions since 1995 and has been associated with BEA since 1997. This past January, he was named to succeed Lance Fensterman as the head of the annual trade show when Fensterman was appointed to ...
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Pete Hamill's Downtown
Finding the invisible city.
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My Hometown
Maureen Dowd on pols, poetry, and pandas.
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Comics Create Big Buzz at BEA
At past BookExpos, graphic novel publishers struggled to gain a toehold with retailers and librarians who weren't quite sure exactly what a graphic novel was.
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Graphic Novels Feel the Love
Graphic novel publishers at this year's BEA found that one of the problems plaguing the industry for decades has become an unexpected strength. The audience for comics historically skews young and very male. As it turns out, that's just what libraries love about carrying graphic novels--they reel in boys, who are otherwise too often absent from the stacks.
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Graphic Novels Draw New Buyers at BEA
Graphic novel publishers at BEA reported sustained, strong interest from libraries (which have found that comics bring in boys like nothing else) and the book trade.
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BookCon 2015: YA Authors Talk Friendship, Growing Up
BookCon panel BFFs Forever gathered YA authors Gayle Forman, Sarah Dessen, and Jenny Han to talk about friendships past and present, and the art of writing about them.
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