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SXSW 2012: Mini TOC Kicks Off Rainy Show with BookShout and Mobile Content
Neither the pouring rain nor unseasonably chilly weather can put a damper on the opening of this year’s SXSW Interactive festival, which is being held from March 9-13 in Austin, Tex.
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HBG Wins Innovator Award
Hachette Book Group has been named the 2012 Publishing Innovator of the Year by the trade publication Book Business. HBG was cited for “taking action to quickly address—both internally and externally—the changing consumer-content-consumption habits across multiple platforms,” by Noelle Skodzinski, editorial director for Book Business.
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Children's Institute Slated for BEA
As reported last month, BookExpo America, in conjunction with the ABC Group at the American Booksellers Association, is introducing its first children's day for children's booksellers.
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Bologna Briefcase: What the Agents Are Bringing
"Modern Family meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “Heathers meets The Craft,” and “Titanic in outer space” are just some of the intriguing-sounding projects that will be on offer later this month at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. We asked some American agents to tell us about two projects they have high hopes for.
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PubWest Announces "Publishing's New Model" as 2012 Theme
From acquisitions to marketing, “Publishing’s New Model” will explore through fascinating case studies how publishers big and small are reinventing how they make and sell books.
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San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl Set for Sunday
The first San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl will be held on Sunday, February 26 and begins at Green Apple Books
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BEA Finalizes Lineup for Children's Breakfast
BookExpo America has announced that Glee's Chris Colfer, author of the forthcoming The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (Little, Brown), will serve as emcee for the BEA convention's Children’s Book and Author Breakfast.
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IBPA Publishing University Features Chandler and Piersanti Keynotes
Chandler and Piersanti join more than 50 industry experts who will present a day and a half of programs designed to provide publishers of all sizes with the tools to promote, market, and sell more books.
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Technology at The Forefront of Upbeat Toy Fair
The approximately 30 publishers exhibiting at the 2012 New York International Toy Fair, held at the Javits Center, February 11–15, saw full aisles and strong orders for the first time in several years. The Toy Industry Association’s preliminary figures estimated attendance was up 4%, to 34,000. “We’ve been very impressed with the traffic,” said Shannon Roof, director of national accounts, Carson-Dellosa, which was highlighting its expanded Guinness World Records and Crayola licenses and its Summer Bridge workbooks. Meanwhile, attendees’ mood was positive, exhibitors said, despite a 2% decline in retail sales of toys and games in the U.S. last year, to $21.18 billion, according to the NPD Group. “It’s a very good show, very upbeat,” reported John Donofrio, owner of Briarpatch, which makes board games tied to book properties including I Spy. “I think it’s going to be a good year.”
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BEA Adds Children's Day, Could Admit Public in 2013
It’s not just the timing—one week later than usual—that makes this year’s BookExpo stand out. Among the tweaks is a dedicated day for children’s booksellers. And looking ahead to 2013 it could invite the public on the last day.
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WBN Deadline Extended
World Book Night U.S. has extended the deadline for people to sign up to be book givers as well as for bookstores, libraries and other locations to distribute the books until February 6. The deadline had been February 1. For those interested in participating go to www.worldbooknight.org.
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NCIBA Announces New Dates and Location for 2012 Fall Trade Show
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association will move its annual trade show to South San Francisco and cut one day from the 2012 schedule.
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Mazama Book Festival to Debut in the Pacific Northwest
The picturesque town of Mazama, Wash., located near the gateway to the northern Cascade mountain range, will be the site of the first Mazama Festival of Books the last weekend of August.
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A Winning Winter Institute
Buoyed by a strong finish to 2011, indie booksellers celebrated their independence at this year’s seventh annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, January 18–20. Some who recently opened second stores, like Peter Makin at Brilliant Books, in Suttons Bay, Mich., are already looking to expand again. Others like Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen, cofounders of Women and Children First in Chicago, are simply happy to see sales turn around, up more than 30% for the holidays.
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ALA Midwinter 2012: All Our Coverage
All of our coverage of this year's ALA Midwinter conference in one place.
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Reed Exhibitions Buys Blogger Convention
Reed Exhibitions, owner of BookExpo America, has purchased the Book Blogger Convention, an annual day-long conference devoted to providing support, instruction, and social time for people who blog about books.
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Germany Joins World Book Night 2012
World Book Night has announced that Germany is the second international partner alongside the United States to stage a national one million book giveaway for adults on April 23rd, the Unesco International Day of the Book.
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It's Official: MIBA and GLiBA Will Hold Joint Show
MIBA and GLiBA have made it official: they will hold a joint show in Minneapolis October 3-5, and call it the Heartland Fall Forum.
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TOC 2012: What To Expect From This Year's Conference
Program chairs Joe Wikert and Kat Meyer tell PW what we should expect from the conference this year. Click through for a discount code to the event, good for 25% off any package.
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