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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: The Benefits of Common Core
The buzz about Common Core, shorthand for the Common Core State Standards Initiative, has been getting louder in recent months.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Back to the Past
Gen-Xers, born between 1965 and 1980, may be more eager than any other generation of Americans to hold onto the objects that remind them of their youth.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Algonquin Young Readers Stages Booth Takeover
Algonquin, for 30 years publishers of literary fiction and nonfiction for adults, is celebrating its entrance into the children’s market with a nonhostile takeover at BEA.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: 2013 Pannell Awards Bestowed
At this morning’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, two bookstores will receive the WNBA Pannell Award, given annually since 1983 by the Women’s National Book Association to two bookstores—one general and one children’s specialty store—that excel in bringing books and young people together.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: Browsing the Booths, Chapter Two
For those navigating the booths of children’s publishers today, here is a preview of new books on display, authors doing signings, and giveaways being offered.
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BEA 2013: Spotlight on Children: What’s on Today’s Breakfast Menu?
Three authors well-known to booksellers and one debut author celebrated for her work on another stage share the spotlight at this morning’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast.
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BEA 2013: YA Buzz: Books with Identity Issues
The five books presented at BEA 2013's Young Adult Editors' Buzz panel all featured main characters who are either sampling, or being thrust into, different identities.
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BEA 2013: Literary Ethics for Reviewers
As part of a project to develop a code of “best practices” for book reviews, the NBCC hosted a panel to present data from its ongoing survey and discuss questions that have arisen in the process.
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BEA 2013: The Fight Over Digital Resale
The debate over digital resale continues, this time at the IDPF 2013 Digital Book Conference in a panel featuring a familiar set of debaters.
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Stability Brings Hope at BEA
Although some reports from the consumer press may have overstated the health of the independent book business, booksellers at this year’s BookExpo America do seem in better spirits.
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BEA 2013: Oneworld Embraces Its World
Oneworld Publications is officially introducing at BEA a new digital imprint that literally creates a buzz: Oneworld Expresso—the British publisher’s short story imprint.
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BEA 2013: Indie Author's Battle
"I'm using the power of the pen to get the government to back off, and to educate everyone," explains Mike Daugherty, the author of The Devil Inside the Beltway, a self-published first-person account of his ongoing battle against the federal government.
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BEA 2013: Audio Publishers Hear Out Brafman
A bestselling author and organizational expert, Ori Brafman laid out a plan for the audio industry to better influence consumers in a lively and interactive keynote that kicked off APAC in New York.
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BEA 2013: Being Social Matters
Moderator Kirsten Hess, director of events and marketing at R.J. Julia Booksellers, kicked off Wednesday afternoon's panel acknowledging, "2-3 years ago, social media was not important enough to bring up in a business plan." In 36 months, quite a lot changed, as social media accounted for the social portion of Being Social: Reaching Your Customers and Community.
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Two Books in Tandem from Gene Yang
Gene Luen Yang, author of the acclaimed graphic novel American Born Chinese, returns to BEA with two books -- Boxers and Saints, the story of the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
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BEA 2013: Editors Panel Participants Buzz About Life, Death, and Everything In Between
If there was a common theme to the six books presented by six editors at the Editors Buzz panel at Javits Wednesday, it could be that “hell is other people,” and death, just like birth, is an inevitable fact of life.
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PW BEA Show Daily, May 30, 2013
Read the complete May 30, 2013 PW BEA Show Daily to keep up with all the goings-on at Book Expo America.
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BEA 2013: Adam Gidwitz: Wrapping Up All Things Grimm
A propitious phone call from the Brooklyn school where he was a teacher launched a new career for Adam Gidwitz, who was asked to fill in as a substitute librarian for the day. Charged with finding something to read to second graders, he searched his bookshelves and reached for a book he’d never opened: a collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm.
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BEA 2013: Chelsea Handler MC’s Thursday Author Breakfast
Thursday’s author breakfast involved time travel, Theodore Roosevelt, storytelling, Chelsea Handler, and even a quote from Kierkegaard: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” After the presentation of this year’s PW Sales Rep of the Year Award to Bruce Joshua Miller of Miller Trade Book Marketing, and Bookstore of the Year to Square Books in Oxford, Miss., which in turn gave PW a framed piece of the store’s wooden balcony, Handler took over as mistress of ceremonies.
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BEA 2013: EFA’s Outreach
The Editorial Freelancers Association just might be the book publishing industry’s most powerful secret weapon, when deadlines loom and staff resources are already stretched beyond reasonable limits.
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