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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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Weak Dollar Makes For Tricky Show
The weak dollar was a key factor at this year's Bologna Fair, as American publishers found the market tough for buying, but great for selling. Francesca Dow at Puffin said, “The state of the dollar certainly makes buying anything from Europe even tougher.” On the other hand, as Chris Boral of Chronicle Books put it, “It did seem like there were a lot of shoppers, and we were t...
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Wrapping Up Bologna
The state of the U.S. economy hung over this year’s Bologna Fair, as American publishers found the market tough for buying, but great for selling. Despite the sunshine and a busy schedule, Francesca Dow, managing director at Puffin, said, “The underlying mood felt quite sober. The state of the U.S. dollar certainly makes buying anything from Europe even tougher.”
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Riordan Talks Up Clues in Bologna
Bestselling author Rick Riordan was brought to Bologna by Scholastic to introduce The 39 Clues series, a multi-platform middle-grade adventure series, which launches this September. Hyperion also announced a million-copy print run for the fourth Percy Jackson book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, as well as two new series from the author.
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Children’s Book Week Springs into New Territory
For the first time in its 88-year history, Children’s Book Week moves from its traditional home in November to early May this year.
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Emerging e-Book Market Top Subject at IDPF Conference
The emerging e-book market will be the top subject at the upcoming IDPF Digital Book 2008 conference on May 14.
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PEN Kicks Off World Voices Festival on The Queen Mary 2
About 200 industry professionals were the guests of PEN on the Queen Mary 2 yesterday to give an early launch to the organizations upcoming PEN World Voices Festival.
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Spring Book Show to Hilton
Tornado damages forces the Spring Book Show to move to the Atlanta Hilton.
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London Book Fair '08: What's in Your Briefcase?
American publishers and agents will be shopping an eclectic group of literary wares in the rights area at London this year; the offerings include, a tale about moonshining; holiday recipes from Nigella Lawson; the controversial post-mortem collection from Raymond Carver; a grisly whodunit from David Cronenberg; and a take on First Lady-dom from Curtis Sittenfeld.
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Collected Consciousness
Poets are the nomads of literary publishing. Poetry books are rarely money-makers for their publishers; they get published because of a particular house or editor's personal commitment to poetry, to shore up the literary end of a list, or because a nonprofit, indie or university press is passionately invoved in poetry.
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The Poets' Poet
How is it that an accomplished poet and scholar, beloved by generations of students, whose work has enjoyed the praise of no less than Harold Bloom, remains, at 76, something of a poet's poet, a secret hero to a few rather than an enthusiasm widely shared? Allen Grossman's reputation, such as it is, may be owing in part to his difficult-to-classify poems.
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Mayer to Get London Award
Former Penguin head Peter Mayer will receive a lifetime achievement award for his efforts in promoting international publishing at this year's London Book Fair. Since leaving Penguin in 1996, Mayer has run the U.S.-based Overlook Press and the U.K-based Duckworth Publishers.
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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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CIROBE #17 Delivers For Exhibitors, Buyers
We've left our adolescence and are entering our grownup years,” said Anne Jonas, daughter of CIROBE (Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Book Exposition) cofounder Brad Jonas, as she delivered the trade show's closing announcement on Sunday, October 28. The show began the preceding Friday, with the traditional noon opening moved up to 9 a.
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Topalian Promoted; Fensterman Joins NYCC
Reed Exhibitions promotes Greg Topalian to senior v-p and BEA director Lance Fensterman joins the staff of New York Comic-Con as show manager.
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Revamped NAIBA Gets Thumbs Up
The decision to make NAIBA's annual trade show a mini-sales convention contributed to positive vides at the meeting held this weekend in Baltimore.
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Wisconsin Book Festival Spreads
The sixth annual Wisconsin Book Festival took place at a variety of locations in the Badger State's two largest cities October 2—14, drawing more than 15,000 attendees.
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Live From Frankfurt:Phobias, Math and Zoos Among The Hot Topics
A YA series preempted by Little, Brown, a nonfiction work on zoos bought by Weinstein Books were two big deals concluded today at Frankfurt, while two other major projects, The Book of Numbers and Age of Orphans, were drawing lots of interest from American houses.
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