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BookExpo 2018: CEOs See a Stable Book Industry in an Unstable World
For the book business, print and digital markets have found balance, CEOs say, but political instability in the culture at large remains a cause for concern.
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BookExpo 2018: Authors Tell Booksellers, It's Best of Times, It's Worst of Times
BookExpo kicked off with the traditional adult book breakfast featuring three comedians, two novelists, and one history professor drawing laughs even while explaining how political and social upheavals inspire their writing.
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BookExpo 2018: Binc Launches Bookseller Scholarship in Memory of Carla Gray
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and the Friends of Carla Gray committee are introducing a scholarship to help an early-career bookseller learn more about the trade and to reinforce the ties between their store and the community.
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BookExpo 2018: Open Road Integrated Media and Ingram Team Up
Open Road Integrated Media, a content company that delivers a variety of digital experiences for readers, recently announced a new strategic alliance with Ingram Content Group to expand consumer reach and boost how readers discover new books.
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BookExpo 2018: How Real Life Inspires Writers
'Show Daily at BookExpo' asked all six of the Adult Buzz authors what inspired their books. Here are their answers.
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BookExpo 2018: Church Publishing Turns 100, Embraces the Future
Founded in 1918 in New York City, Church Publishing Inc. is celebrating its first century this year.
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BookExpo 2018: Ten Years In, a Successful Experiment
Ten years ago Matthew Lore, who had been v-p and executive editor at Da Capo Press, teamed up with his business partner, Peter Burri, to found the Experiment. The press’s mission is to have a list in which “every book is a test of new ideas.”
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BookExpo 2018: Gender and Identity in SFF
Four Tor authors—Charlie Jane Anders, Seth Dickinson, S.L. Huang, and V.E. Schwab—discuss identity, characters, and worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy.
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BookExpo 2018: Casement Welcomes Boydell & Brewer
Casemate Group and Boydell & Brewer have reached an agreement for Casemate to handle all sales, distribution, fulfillment, customer service, and other back-of-house functions for B&B’s print books for North and South America.
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BookExpo 2018: Sara Franklin: ‘At the Table with Edna Lewis’
Before Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, or Food Network star Ina Garten, there was Edna Lewis (1916–2006). The granddaughter of former slaves, she gained renown for her cooking and cookbooks that revived refined Southern cooking.
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BookExpo 2018: Workman at 50, Keeping It Small
In 1968 Peter Workman founded the company that bears his name with a single book, 'The Yoga 28-Day Exercise Program,' which is still in print.
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BookExpo 2018: Christina Dalcher: Voice Over
Imagine some not too distant dystopian future where women are completely subservient to men and barely allowed to speak.
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BookExpo 2018: Is Social Media Poetry Just a Trend?
Is social media poetry on Instagram, tumblr, and other platforms here to stay, or is it a passing fad, like coloring books?
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BookExpo 2018: Julia Sommerfeld on the Launch of Amazon Original Stories’ First Collection
Amazon Original Stories, a new imprint dedicated to short digital fiction and nonfiction, released its first collection, 'The Real Thing,' yesterday.
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BookExpo 2018: George Pelecanos: ‘A Love Letter to Reading’
The author of 19 bestselling novels set in and around Washington, D.C., and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series 'The Wire' and 'Treme,' George Pelecanos knows how to tell a story about the darker side of life.
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BookExpo 2018: Futter and Raab Get Ready to Launch Celadon
In what turned out to be an auspicious coincidence, the contracts of powerHouse editors Deb Futter and Jamie Raab, with between them 70-plus years of publishing experience, expired in 2016.
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BookExpo 2018: Nicholas Sparks: From Zimbabwe to the Beach
Nicholas Sparks is always working, especially when he’s on vacation. “I work a lot when I travel,” he says. “I take a lot of notes and photographs. I’m generally writing, because that’s what writers do.”
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BookExpo 2018: Fervor for Frosty
Bob Eckstein’s hilarious cartoon for the New Yorker merely scratches the surface of this award-winning illustrator’s obsession with everything snowman.
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BookExpo 2018: Blink Celebrates Five Years of ‘Clean Teen’
When Blink Young Adult, an imprint of HarperFocus, launched five years ago, its mission was to fill what it saw as a huge gap in the YA market: books that reflect a “clean teen” ethos. For ages 13 and up, it publishes literature that is “PG-13,” with a hopeful message.
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BookExpo 2018: New Macmillan Children’s Imprint Debuts
Last October publisher Daniel Nayeri, editorial director Nathalie Le Du, and creative director Colleen AF Venable left Workman to create an imprint for Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.