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.

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.

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.

BookExpo America 2009: Nash and Felman’s Open House

The ideal publisher in the age of e-community? The e-community itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BookExpo America 2009: U.K., U.S. Publishers Associations Tout Service to Fight Piracy

At the opening day’s second session on digital piracy, representatives from the U.K.-based Publishers Association (PA) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) demonstrated a new online tool for publishers of all sizes to generate and send takedown notices to sites suspected of infringement.

BookExpo America 2009: Alyson Celebrates at BEA

LGBT publishing will be well-represented at BEA. The 21st annual Lambda Literary Awards will take place tonight, and tomorrow there will be a private party for 150 LGBT writers, booksellers and journalists. On Saturday, Alyson Books is inviting booksellers and the press to celebrate the appointment of Don Weise as publisher at The Gates in Chelsea.

BookExpo America 2009: Perseus Unveils 'Book: The Sequel' Timeline

The publisher plans to produce a book on the BEA show floor.

BookExpo America 2009: HarperCollins Featuring e-Galleys at BEA

HarperCollins is giving out e-galleys for 14 adult titles, nine children's titles and an audiobook in addition to seven print galleys.

BookExpo America 2009: Despite No-Shows, Many Comics, Graphic Novels at BEA

This year BEA will have fewer attendees, fewer galleys and reduced booth space for many giant publishers, but graphic novel publishers will still be there.

BookExpo America 2009: Local Cookbook Authors Dish On Where to Eat at BEA

After a long day at the Javits Center, unwinding with a nice meal is just what many convention-goers need. We talked to New Yorkers with cookbooks and books about food out this year to get their picks. There's plenty to chose from, but if all else fails, follow the advice of former food critic William Grimes: “Do not despise food from street carts.

BookExpo America 2009: Pizza, Boigahs, and Bangers in the Mouth -- A Guide to Eating Your Heart Out in New York

We admit it: living in New York City makes you a food snob, but not in the sense you think. We don't want to sup three times a week at three-star Michelin enterprises that cost us a kidney or worse. We want value for money; red-carpet treatments for editor and librarian budgets. Most of the restaurants listed below serve quality dinner entrees for under $20.

BookExpo America 2009: Library Journal's Guide to BEA 2009's Galley Giveaways

A Literary Feast From the Luncheon Society

At a recent gathering of Bob McBarton's Luncheon Society, Dr. Helen Fisher sat in a private room at the Napa Valley Grille in Los Angeles surrounded by 25 fellow diners who had come to hear her discuss her new book, Why Him? Why Her? (Holt) at the ambitious literary salon McBarton founded in 1997. After hosting more than 200 authors at luncheons in three cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles and m...

BookExpo America 2009: BEA African American Programming Hangs on Despite Economy

In separately organized events, former bookseller and now author, Clara Villarosa, will once again host the African American Book Publishing Professionals Program; and the African American Pavillion will move to the main floor of BEA with more than 50 exhibitors and a lively slate of awards, panel discussions, seminars and personal appearances by a wide range of authors and publishers.

BookExpo America 2009: BEA Sets CEO Panel, Bookseller of the Year Ceremony

A CEO panel with Brian Murray, Carolyn Reidy, John Sargent and David Steinberger will be held May 28 at 3 p.m. The Bookseller and Rep of the Year Awards will be presented at the Saturday author lunch.

Open Book Premieres on LinkTV

A new TV show for books premieres this week, featuring a different literary locale in each episode. Open Book, a half-hour-long national TV and multimedia program, will air May 13 on nonprofit network LinkTV. The show was created by book publicist and editor Ina Howard-Parker, who will also host it; documentary and commercial filmmaker Diane Paragas will direct.