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Live from BEA, Thursday, May 29
PW's live coverage from BookExpo America 2008
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BEA Exhibitors: G - O
PW's guide supplements BEA's 600-plus-page exhibitor handbook. While that guide lists booth numbers, personnel, and autographings, this is the only listing that highlights titles and products being promoted at each booth, as well as giveaways and discounts being offered. G Galaxy Press Featured: Spy Killer, Under the Black Ensign, The Great Secret, If I Were You and Branded Outlaw, titles by L.
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BEA's Convention & Education Schedule
The ABA's Day of Education is being held on Thursday, May 29, at the Hotel ABA (the Renaissance Hollywood). Over at the convention center on Friday morning, room 403AB is going to be bustling. First up, from 8—9:15 a.m., will be the always popular BEA Editors Buzz Panel. Scheduled earlier than usual, the panel now delivers the pre-show buzz even before the show floor opens.
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BEA Exhibitors: A - F
PW's guide supplements BEA's 600-plus-page exhibitor handbook. While that guide lists booth numbers, personnel, and autographings, this is the only listing that highlights titles and products being promoted at each booth, as well as giveaways and discounts being offered. A A&C Black Publishers This first-time exhibitor is a U.
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BEA Exhibitors: P - Z
PW's guide supplements BEA's 600-plus-page exhibitor handbook. While that guide lists booth numbers, personnel, and autographings, this is the only listing that highlights titles and products being promoted at each booth, as well as giveaways and discounts being offered. P Paizo Publishing/ Planet Stories This first-time exhibitor publishes classic fantasy, science fiction and science fantasy n...
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Play It as L.A.
Of course you've already heard that the Hollywood sign and the entire mountain it resides on is for sale. Maybe you didn't. It was ironic news a few months ago. No one who lives here cares, and why should they. Not long ago, some preservation crazoid tried to save an apartment Charles Bukowski once rented.
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BEA Back to L.A.
Green and black are the colors of this year's BookExpo America, returning to Los Angeles for the first time since 2003. A large chunk of Friday's educational programming is devoted to going green—specifically how bookstores, publishing house and consumers can be more environmentally aware. Then on Saturday night, things turn black as The Daily Show comic Lewis Black performs at the Orpheu...
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Lance Fensterman
Like the tall, bespectacled storybook character hidden in plain sight in the Where's Waldo? books, Lance Fensterman's lanky 6'5” frame can be spotted with Blackberry in hand in a variety of tableaux at BookExpo America—author breakfasts, workshops and publishers' booths. “I like to be all over the show,” says Fensterman, “talking with people to know about how they'...
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Graphic Novel Breakfast at BEA
In a first for BookExpo America, this year's show will hold a breakfast panel featuring four acclaimed comics creators offering their insights into the growth of the graphic novel category. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and writer and Heroes producer Jeph Loeb will be interviewed by Jeff Smith, creator of the bestselling fantasy graphic nov...
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After Nelson’s Pullout, Publishers Ponder BEA
Is BEA worth it? That question has been whispered among industry types for years when the topic turns to the goliath of business trade shows, BookExpo America. The question resurfaced when Nashville-based religion publisher Thomas Nelson announced last week that it is dropping out of the show. Nelson, which will also skip ICRS, the Christian equivalent to BEA, said that the “economic down...
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Spring Book Festivals 2008
The following 22 book festivals are among the many scheduled to take place from February all the way through July 2008. Contact information for publishers wishing to participate is provided below. Check festival Web sites for complete author lists and more details on participants, activities and educational programs.
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TOC in NYC: E-books and Teens
Although this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference may have lacked the keynote star power of last year's event, the conference's move from San Jose to Manhattan clearly reaped benefits.
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Thomas Friedman Named as BEA's Keynote Speaker
Thomas Friedman will be the keynote speaker at this year’s BookExpo America in Los Angeles. The three-time Pulitzer Prize winner will appear at the convention on Friday, May 30 at 11a.m.
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BookExpo Brings Booksellers to China
BookExp America (owned by PW parent Reed Exhibitions) is hosting a panel discussion featuring a number of American booksellers and librarians at the upcoming Beijing Book Fair.
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Making the Old New Again at TOC
The first annual O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference brought together a little more than 400 digital and book publishing professionals for three days of intensive and often entertaining projections about the future of publishing in the digital era—not to mention the future form of the book itself.
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History and Vision at O'Reilly's TOC
If the first day of O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference seemed all about the nitty-gritty of XML, digital workflow and Web analytics, day two brought out the stars and visionaries of the digital publishing universe offering historical perspective on everything that was said the previous day.
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XML Rules at O'Reilly's Confab
At the opening day of O'Reilly Media's Tools Of Change conference panelists talked about everything from e-books to search engines, although the importance of XML was a theme throughout the day.
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Spring Book Festivals 2007
Even though parts of the country are in a deep freeze, relief can be easily had by turning one's thoughts to the upcoming spring consumer book festivals.
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Spring Book Festivals 2006 (February to June)
Spring is just around the corner--which means it's time for the rebirth of book festivals.
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Trade Book Comics in Demand at Comic-Con
Comic-Con International, the annual trade show for comics, graphic novels, gaming, film and pop-culture merchandising of all kinds, is a strange hybrid beast. The largest annual gathering of the professional community of comics and graphic novels, it's also the biggest convention for comics fans and readers.
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