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Boston Comic Con 2011: Small Is Beautiful
The Boston Comic Con has been growing steadily from its origins as a small hotel comics convention centered around buying comics to an event that features top-name guests but still has the intimacy of a hometown comics festival. While the show is smaller than a big-city convention, it is growing fast. BCC press liaison Colin Solan said attendance this past weekend was 6,000, a big increase over both last year’s attendance of 4,100 and the show’s 2009 attendance of 2,800.
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Los Angeles Book Festival Makes Smooth Transition
The 16th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books made a smooth cross-town move this weekend from the Westwood campus of UCLA to the sprawling, user-friendly home of USC situated near downtown L.A. in a neighborhood that is both ethnically and culturally different from the Festival’s former location.
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BISG's Making Information Pay Conference Set for May 5
BISG is hosting its annual Making Information Pay conference on May 5. The event will take place at the McGraw Hill Auditorium in New York.
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PW's Events Listing: 'LAT' Festival of Books Cooking Stage
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Cooking Stage. Date: April 30 and May 1, 2011. Where: University of Southern California. What: Celebrity chefs and award-winning cookbook authors will demonstrate recipes as well as sign copies from their latest cookbooks. This year’s lineup includes celebrated American chef Thomas Keller; and TV personalities Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet), Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes), Bob Blumer (The Surreal Gourmet), and Fabio Viviani (Top Chef All-Stars). More info: latimes.com/festivalofbooks. -
BEA Announces Buzz Panel Selections
BEA has announced the selected books--and the editorial reps touting them--that will be headlining its three buzz panels at this year's trade show. The three events, officially called BEA Editors Buzz Forum, focus on adult, YA, and middle grade works, respectively. The adult panel is scheduled for Monday, May 23; the YA panel for Tuesday, May 24; and the middle grade panel for Wednesday, May 25.
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PW's Events Listing: BISG's Making Information Pay
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BISG's Making Information Pay conference. Date: May 5, 2011. Where: McGraw-Hill Auditorium, New York City. What: The conference will focus on product development, supply management, sales transactions, and customer loyalty. Kenneth Michaels, evp and COO of Hachette Book Group, is the keynote speaker. More info: www.bisg.org/mip. -
Yale Publishing Course to Focus on Leading Through Transition
This year's Yale Publishing Course, which takes place in July, will focus on "Leadership Strategies in a Time of Transition," bringing together publishing industry leaders and members of the Yale faculty. The curriculum, geared to mid- to upper-level professionals and capped at 80 participants, will address managing the transition from print to multi-platform publishing, incorporating social media and apps into a publishing strategy, devising an e-publishing business plan, and becoming a global publisher.
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WonderCon Brings Fans, Publishers, Excitement to San Francisco
Fans who were shut out of getting tickets for the San Diego Comic-Con headed north this weekend for WonderCon, the Bay area comics show which celebrated its 25th edition this year. While final attendance numbers are not yet available, director of marketing and public relations David Glanzer confirmed that attendance would likely exceed the 39,000 fans that attended last year’s show.
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PW's Events Listing: Gaithersburg Book Festival’s 'State of the Book' Panel
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Gaithersburg Book Festival's "State of the Book" panel discussion. Date: May 21, 2011. Where: Gaithersburg City Hall, Gaithersburg, Md. What: The panel will feature reporter Michael Norris, bookseller Mark LaFramboise, publisher Jed Lyons, agent Gail Ross, and editor Geoff Shandler sharing their perspectives on the business. More info: www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org. -
Spring Book Show Up; May Forms GABBS Network
In Atlanta this past weekend, L.B. May & Associates put on its 16th Spring Book Show, featuring some 70 vendors and more than 85,000 bargain titles—including remainders, returns, promotionals, "white sales," and used books. In addition, Larry May, who owns L.B. May with his wife Valerie, announced the creation of the GABBS (Great American Bargain Book Show) network, which will encompass the annual Atlanta event, L.B. May's Boston convention (held every August), and newly-implemented news services like an e-newsletter, a print buyers guide, and a website (www.gabbs.net) that will soon offer training modules and short videos.
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PW's Events Listing: 27th Annual IBPA Publishing University
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27th Annual IBPA Publishing University. Date: May 22-23, 2011. Where: Javits Center, New York City. What: Sessions on how-to topics in publishing led by industry experts in sales, marketing, social media, and copyright; a panel of e-reading prognosticators; an “Everything Google” session; and the 23rd Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards and Reception. Keynote speaker: David “Skip” Prichard, president and CEO of Ingram Content Group. More info: www.ibpapublishinguniversity.com. -
C2E2: Lots of New Comics for Kids, Teens
There was no sophomore slump at the second annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo as far as comics and graphic novels for children and teens. There were new title announcements from Archaia and Oni Press, an Owly picture book debuting from Top Shelf, and a new Jill Thompson title from DC's usually adults-only imprint, Vertigo.
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Attendance Rises At Second Annual C2E2
The second annual Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) drew 34,000 attendees, a significant improvement from last year's show. Organizers say increased local awareness and branding that emphasized the "comic" part of the show’s name, helped boost attendance.
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PW's Events Listing: Digital Book Printing Forum
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Digital Book Printing Forum. Date: April 5, 2011. Where: New York Marriott Marquis, New York City. What: Digital printing and publishing industry market and technology research and consulting firm Interquest hosts its annual educational forum on trends and opportunities in digital book manufacturing. Keynote speaker: Lulu.com founder and CEO Bob Young. More info: click here. -
Writers Raise Money for Nashville, National Red Cross
While brainstorming ideas with her local chapter for Red Cross Month—that's March—Nashville author and longtime Red Cross volunteer Holly Tucker suggested they put together a fundraiser with the Tennessee writing community, which came together less than a year before to raise funds and awareness when Nashville was hit by devastating floods in May, 2010 (an effort spearheaded by YA authors Myra McEntire, Victoria Schwab, and Amanda Morgan).
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SXSW: Thinking Beyond Publishing to Storytelling
In PW's first trip to SXSW, we came to the Interactive portion of the days-long event in Austin wondering how best to tackle a show featuring an endless stream of panels, talks, and parties.
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Riggio Tells Publishers 'Transformational Growth' Ahead
In an upbeat and optimistic keynote speech about the book market at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers, Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio said the industry is on the cusp of "transformational growth" led by the sale of digital content, and he urged publishers to produce different kinds of e-books ranging from novellas to books that can be updated.
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AAP Annual Meeting Set for March 9
The Association of American Publishers 2011 annual meeting is set for March 9 at the Yale Club in New York. Keynote speaker will be Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio. The closing panel will be a conversation between AAP CEO Tom Allen and Will Pesce who will retire as CEO of John Wiley at the end of April.
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Guadalajara's FIL Launches Spanish-Language Fair in Los Angeles
The Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL, or Guadalajara International Book Fair), the largest and most important book fair for the Spanish-language book world, is launching a States-side fair this spring, LéaLA. The Spanish-language book fair will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from April 29–May 1 and will be free to the general public.
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Web Seminar Debates How Self-Publishing Will Lose Its Stigma
Thanks to the well-publicized success of authors like J.A. Konrath, Amanda Hocking, and Seth Godin, the stigma surrounding self-publishing is fading fast. Still, it’s far from gone, and a web seminar sponsored by PW and Digital Book World yesterday titled The Evolution of Self-Publishing covered the reasons for self-publishing’s stigma, how and why it’s losing that stigma, and what the industry and individual authors need to do in order to help self-publishing move even further into the mainstream.
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