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BookExpo America 2009: A Downsized Show
Amid a global recession, decreasing book sales and industry-wide layoffs, how was day one of BEA ’09? Well, it depends on who you ask. Publicists were typically upbeat (“busy” was their buzzword), while a few heads of houses wondered aloud—and off the record—how much business was actually getting done at the show. And booksellers, especially independents, lamented the decrease in ARC giveaways.
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BookExpo America 2009: At Cannon Tales, Beer and Nichification
At the Cannon Tales panel, the overall buzzword-heavy message was clear: publishing needs to adapt, and faster.
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BookExpo America 2009: ABA Takes Care of Business
The past year was a difficult one for booksellers and the ABA as membership fell and the organization's portfolio lost $10 million.
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BookExpo America 2009: Book Publishers: Please Don’t Be Like the Music Industry!
At last night’s panel, “Jumping Off a Cliff: How Publishers Can Succeed Online,” Chris Anderson was joined by Scribd cofounder Jared Friedman, New York Times digital guru Nick Bilton and moderator Andrew Albanese of PW in a conversation that can be heard all around the convention floor: What can the book industry do to avoid the unfortunate fate of the music industry?
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BookExpo America 2009: ABC Debates Merger with ABA
The Association of Booksellers for Children, which announced in late March that it was considering a merger with the ABA, brought the debate to its members on Friday, at its annual membership meeting. A task force will convene in July to nail down more details, and will incorporate the feedback from Friday’s meeting. Leslie Reiner of Inkwood Books in Tampa, Fla., said she hoped the task force could determine what the ABA can do for the ABC;
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BookExpo America 2009: Gaiman, Scieszka Sweet on Booksellers
At Friday’s lunch in honor of the Indies Choice Book Awards, children’s writers Neil Gaiman and Jon Scieszka came up with a way to turn the table and honor booksellers.
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BookExpo America 2009: Children’s Author Breakfast Celebrates Story and Song
The children’s author breakfast was a celebration of books and music for the 1,200 booksellers who packed the special events hall at Javits Friday morning. Film star and author Julie Andrews set a whimsical tone for the event by declaring, “Wouldn’t this have been fun if this had been a pajama party and we all could have rolled out of bed and come to breakfast? I feel as if I did.”
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BookExpo America 2009: Gaiman, Scieszka Headline Indies Choice Book Awards
At Friday’s lunch in honor of the Indies Choice Book Awards, children’s writers Neil Gaiman, winner of the Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book, and Jon Scieszka, an Engaging Author honoree, came up with a unique way to turn the table and honor booksellers.
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BookExpo America 2009: Amazon Reaches Out to Small Pubs
More than 120 small publishers jammed into a meeting room at Javits Friday afternoon to listen to Jon Fine, Amazon.com director of author and publisher relations, explain how Amazon can help them sell more books if they take advantage of free services provided by the company.
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BookExpo America 2009: Study Calls E-book Piracy ‘Overstated’
While digital piracy “does effect some niches,” its threat to the sale of paid book content is generally “overstated,” according to an ongoing study of digital piracy that uses titles from O’Reilly Media and Random House.
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BookExpo America 2009: The Big Man and Steven Tyler Set the Tune for the Show
Clarence Clemons of E Street Band fame and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler talked about their lives and upcoming books at the BEA keynote Thursday. Tyler admitted he wasn't sure when the book, set for fall, may actually appear, but he is working on it.
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BookExpo America 2009: ABA Day of Education Highlights Ties That Bind
At the ABA Day of Education Thursday, attendees heard various ways they can stay competitive in the fast-changing retail environment. Lisa Scottoline, James Patterson, Jon Meacham and Sherman Alexie were among the speakers.
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BookExpo America 2009: Memoir, Romance and Graphic Memoir Get Pushed at Buzz Panel
At the close of the opening day of BEA, in a packed, windowless conference room off the show floor, Granta acting editor John Freeman emceed the Editors' Buzz panel.
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BookExpo America 2009: Facebook to Facebook Meeting
Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO of LivingSocial, the online social discovery and cataloging utility he founded two years ago, stressed to an audience of 100 BEA attendees Thursday morning the power of social media to efficiently and effectively promote books and authors.
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BookExpo America 2009: Reed Plans ‘Smaller, Better’ BEA
Reed Exhibitions held an unusual pre-show press conference to offer updates on attendance, new events and the size of this year's BEA.
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BookExpo America 2009: Nash and Felman’s Open House
The ideal publisher in the age of e-community? The e-community itself.
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BookExpo America 2009: Tina, Harry & the CEOs
Tina Brown, founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, was already losing her voice as she began moderating a CEO roundtable discussion at BEA Thursday afternoon with HarperCollins’s Brian Murray, Simon & Schuster’s Carolyn Reidy, Macmillan’s John Sargent and Perseus’s David Steinberger. Forty minutes into the discussion, Brown’s voice reduced to a whisper, her husband, journalist Harry Evans, took over, seamlessly picking up where Brown left off.
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BookExpo America 2009: When to Give It Away
Peter Balis, director of online sales at Wiley, and Brent Lewis, v-p for digital and Internet at Harlequin, shed light on how their companies have given away content as a way of generating revenue and increasing visibility for their brands.
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BookExpo America 2009: Book Sales Rose 1% in 2008, BISG Says
Book sales increased 1.0% in 2008, according to BISG Trends 2009, although the trade segments were off. A gain of 1.8% is predicted for this year.
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BookExpo America 2009: Conroy to Miss the Show
Pat Conroy, who was scheduled to join John Irving Friday on the 10:30 Literary Lions panel and was also to be a speaker at Saturday’s Author Luncheon, will not be making the trip to New York.
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