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BookExpo America 2009: Graphic Paradigm: Comics at BEA
At a time when publishing is looking for a new paradigm, graphic novels—the visual storytelling paradigm—looked particularly strong at BookExpo America 2009.
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BookExpo America 2009: Indie Buzz Panel -- Big Range
Harriet Shaw, editor-in-chief of Foreword magazine and moderator of Saturday’s Indie Editors’ Buzz panel, said, “I picked the publishers myself.’ What she selected was an impressive if idiosyncratic array of editors/houses, each of the five with fascinating books that have every chance of selling.
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BookExpo America 2009: Big Name Authors Dazzle Lunch Crowd
Ken Auletta introduced the Saturday Author lunch panel with a few words about his forthcoming book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (Penguin, Nov.). When he interviewed Bill Gates in 1998, Auletta told the audience, he asked him what he worried most about, expecting to hear “Apple” or even “the U.S. government.”
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BookExpo America 2009: Bloggers Draw a Crowd
The book blogging panel, led by HarperCollins's
Jennifer Hart
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BookExpo America 2009: IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection
Continuing its efforts in literary/graphic novel crossovers, IDW Publishing has announced a major licensing agreement with the estate of acclaimed author Robert Bloch. IDW has the rights to develop 100 of Bloch’s short stories for various formats, to be known as the Robert Bloch Collection.
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BookExpo America 2009: Parsing the Good ‘WTF’ Literary Moments from the Bad at First YA Buzz Panel
Scholastic’s David Levithan gamely and amusingly ushered in BEA’s first YA Buzz Panel by noting a not-so-lofty goal: to “not do so badly or offend you so much” as to kill the event right out of the gates. The plugs for the six books that followed covered everything from a collection of illustrated novellas to a trilogy-launching, genre-bending sci-fi/ fantasy/thriller.
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BookExpo America 2009: 'The Graveyard Book' Takes Audiobook of the Year
With a record number of 1,000 entries and the biggest names in the industry in attendance at Friday night's Audies Awards, top honors went to Neil Gaiman, who walked away with Audiobook of the Year for The Graveyard Book (HarperChildren’s Audio).
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BookExpo America 2009: Author Breakfast Pairs Memoir with Comedy
Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show, author of the memoir American on Purpose (HarperCollins), and self-titled “illiterate boob” emceed the Author Breakfast on Saturday at the Javits Center’s Special Events Hall, which he jokingly likened to a “café in Paris.”
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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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