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At Comics' BEA, Talk of Manga and Book-Trade Permeate
More than 50,000 people were estimated to have attended the Comic-Con International over the weekend, the biggest number the show has drawn in its nearly-35 year existence.
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Graphic Novels, Tie-ins Highlight Comic-Con
This year's Comic-Con International--the comics industry's biggest event for both its producers and its consumers, held in San Diego July 19--highlighted the ways that comics and other media, print and visual, are leaking into each other.
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PW: Spring Book Festivals 2000
PW Home Bestsellers Subscribe Search Bookselling Spring Book Festivals 2000Andrew Engelson -- 3/6/00Consumer book fairs continue to attract big names, large crowds and promote literacy This spring's lineup of consumer book festivals offer some- thing for ever taste, whether you're into children's literature or anarchist manifestos, cowboy p try or Southern crime fiction. ...
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1999 Spring Book Festivals
This season's consumer shows are growing in budgets, authors and attendees.
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Charm and Success: The 25th Southern Festival of Books
This past weekend, more than 30,000 authors and readers descended upon downtown Nashville in Legislative Plaza for the 25th annual Southern Festival of Books.
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Finding the Right Course at CAMEX
It’s not just trade bookstores that are feeling the pinch from online retailers and other discounters. At the National Association of College Stores’ Campus Market Expo held earlier this month at the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, NACS’s OnCampus Research division reported that approximately 67% of students comparison shop for textbooks, and close to half, or 43%, bypass their school stores entirely.