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BookCon Launches Virtual 'Read-a-Thon'
BookCon will hold a virtual day-long reading series on Saturday, April 11, from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET, as part of its new BookCon Virtual Author Tour Series.
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Ingram Is Out of BookExpo and BookCon
Ingram Content Group will not attend BookExpo or BookCon 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Macmillan Withdraws from BookExpo 2020
Macmillan Publishers will not exhibit at BookExpo and BookCon 2020, making the house the last of the Big Five publishers to announce their withdrawal from the annual trade show.
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Hachette Pulls Out of BookExpo and BookCon
Hachette is the latest Big Five publisher to reconsider and decline to exhibit at the postponed BookExpo and BookCon 2020.
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S&S Latest Publisher to Bow Out of BookExpo
Simon & Schuster has become the third Big Five publisher to say it will not attend this year's BookExpo and BookCon events set for New York City July 22-26.
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HarperCollins Withdraws from BookExpo
Reedpop’s decision to move the dates of BookExpo, Unbound, and BookCon from late May to July 22-26 did not convince the country’s second largest trade publisher to attend.
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Reed Postpones BookExpo, BookCon Until July
Reedpop has decided to reschedule the BookExpo, BookCon and Unbound events originally scheduled for May to July 22-26 at the Javits Center.
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Reed Hopes to Find New Dates for BookExpo
Acknowledging that Reed Exhibitions is disappointed about Penguin Random House's decision to withdraw from BookExpo and BookCon, which was set for May 27-31 at New York City's Javits Center, event manager Jenny Martin said Reed is hoping to find new dates for the event.
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PRH Pulls Out of BookExpo, BookCon
With the new coronavirus continuing to spread in New York City, Penguin Random House said it was withdrawing its participation from the events, which are set to take place at the end of May in New York City's Javits Center.
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Adult Breakfast Speakers Announced for BookExpo
Joy Harjo, Carmen Maria Machado, Ilhan Omar, and Rebecca Roanhorse will join radio host and MSNBC political analyst Zerlina Maxwell at this year's Adult Book & Author Breakfast at BookExpo, set for May 28.
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Amid Changes, BookExpo Limits Exhibit Hours to Two Days
As it works to create a more customer-friendly show, Reed Exhibitions said the BookExpo show floor will be open for two days in 2020, preceded by a day of programming. Other changes are under consideration.
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BookExpo 2019: Middle Grade Buzz Authors Discuss Filling Voids
A BookExpo panel on May 31 gathered five creators of buzzed-about middle grade novels to discuss their upcoming works.
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BookExpo 2019: Graphic Novels For Everyone
While comics publishers generally offered mixed to positive reviews of this year's BookExpo, they were enthusiastic about the expansive presence of graphic novels throughout the programming presented at the show.
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BookCon 2019: Mixed Reviews for This Year's Literary Fan Fest
This year's BookCon literary fan fest drew mixed reviews from attendees, some of whom felt that publishers focused more on merchandising rather than on providing booklovers with an experience or giving them free swag.
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BookCon 2019: New Romantics
We talked to Tessa Dare, Abby Jimenez, Joanna Shupe, Sabrina Jeffries, K.M. Jackson, and Maria Vale to find out how they are reinventing romance for 2019.
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BookCon 2019: Who Is Your Hero?
Heroes aren’t just characters in books—they’re also real-life people who blaze trails, do amazing things, and put others’ needs before their own. Their superpowers include kindness, bravery, self-reliance, love, and plain-old awesomeness. We asked BookCon authors to tell us who they look to for inspiration.
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BookCon 2019: World Builders
How do writers create other worlds? And are those worlds just our world in disguise? Joe Hill, N.K. Jemisin, Sean Murphy, V.E. Schwab, and Chuck Wendig share their secrets.
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BookCon 2019: Love Is Love
We talked to Tehlor Kay Mejia, Daniel José Older, Morgan Parker, and Angelo Surmelis about love, family, community, and growing up.
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BookCon 2019: Life Coaches
Randall Munroe, creator of the sensational web comic 'Xkcd,' meets 'Mythbusters' co-host Adam Savage to offer some helpful (and sometimes hilariously impractical) life hacks.
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BookCon 2019: Highlights from Today’s Schedule
Here are our picks for the must-see panels at BookCon today.