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BEA 2013: Being Social Matters
Moderator Kirsten Hess, director of events and marketing at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Conn, kicked off Wednesday afternoon's panel by observing that "two to three years ago, social media was not important enough to bring up in a business plan." In 36 months, quite a lot has changed, as social media was the central concept of the panel "Being Social: Reaching Your Customers and Community."
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BEA 2013: An Eclectic Mixture At Adult Book Buzz Panel
It's a "perfect loop"—of editors, sales reps, and booksellers—who create buzz for the books they love, an excitement fueled by trust, faith, and knowledge, noted moderator Betsy Burton, co-owner of the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, during Wednesday afternoon's Editors' Buzz panel.
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BEA 2013: Suchomel's Big Move to Perseus
Following his surprise departure as president of the Independent Publishers Group in March, Mark Suchomel is returning to the distribution business as head of a new unit that will be part of Perseus Book Group's Publishers Group West division. Legato Publishers Group will be based in Suchomel's hometown of Chicago and will look to build a client list of between 30 to 40 publishers over the next two to three years.
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BEA 2013: Girls Outpace Boys in Digital Use
Kristen McLean, project editor of Bookigee, and Carl Kulo, a Bowker Market Research senior project analyst, kicked off the ABA Day of Education by providing the latest trends in the children's book market.
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BEA 2013: IngramSpark Sparks
In an effort to streamline its print-on-demand offerings for small publishers, Ingram is launching IngramSpark, a program that will offer an inexpensive and easy-to-use platform for small publisher clients to distribute print and digital titles. IngramSpark, which is being announced at BEA and set to launch in July, is aimed at making the distributor's current systems easier to use.
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BEA 2013: New Moves for BookWorks
PubMatch, the global rights organization that Publishers Weekly co-owns with Combined Book Exhibit, has forged a partnership with the self-publishing association BookWorks to launch a new BookWorks Web site. The new site, which is live today, is part of a BookWorks initiative designed to expand the benefits offered to BookWorks members.
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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. EFA, which was founded in 1970 and is a nonprofit organization primarily staffed by volunteers, provides a free searchable database of more than 2,000 experienced freelance professionals wanting to edit, proofread, index, and manage projects. Résumés and preferences are listed in member profiles. EFA also manages a free jobs listing service for publishers.
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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: Social Media For Dummies
If you think that a hashtag is an illegal substance, that being pinned sounds painful, that you have to visit Western Union to send an Instagram, or even that to friend or unfriend someone, you must first actually have met them, you might want to check out Wiley’s Social Media Learning Lab in booths 1838–1839.
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BEA 2013: Jazzing it Up
Well-positioned to be the music gift book of the holiday season, Thames & Hudson’s Verve: The Sound of America (Oct.) offers readers a visual glimpse into the label that was home to legendary artists like Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald.
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BEA 2013: Favorite Sites by the Famous
Ever wonder who serves the best slice of pizza in New York City?
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BEA 2013: First Second Debuts Paul Pope
First Second, Macmillan’s graphic novel imprint, spotlights its new middle-grade graphic novel, Battling Boy (Oct.) by comics superstar Paul Pope.
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BEA 2013: Carole Radziwill: Wry Widow
The name Radziwill conjures up royalty, both American and foreign: the former husband of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, was Polish Prince Stanislaw Radziwill.
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BEA 2013: Execs Debate E-books' Impact
E-books are great for publishers' bottom lines, but, so far, they've proven to be not very successful for independent bookstores.
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BEA 2013: Taschen’s Big Book
It’s not a stretch that art, architecture, and design publisher Taschen (booth 1720) has had a special booth and signage created to highlight its show special, Genesis, the new photography book by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
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BEA 2013: A Toast to PW’s 21 Booksellers Of the Year
At this morning’s Book and Author Breakfast, Publishers Weekly’s co-editorial director Jim Milliot presents Square Books in Oxford, Miss., with the magazine’s annual Bookstore of the Year award, a tradition started 21 years ago.
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BEA 2013: Mexico at BEA and NYC
Events on Mexican literature and publishing at Javits and beyond.
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BEA 2013: Mexico, the New Frontier for Libros
With Mexico as the honored country at BookExpo America, organizations such as Conaculta, Caniem, Planeta, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Sexto Piso, and many others can be seen and heard throughout the halls of the Javits Center and as part of BEA’s Global Market Forum 2013.
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BEA 2013: Chef Dining Recommendations
Some of today’s biggest cookbook authors recommend their favorite New York City restaurants.
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BEA 2013: A $9.8 Million Book!
Andrews McMeel is set to reissue a book of which 600 copies were initially printed—one of them selling at auction last year for a whopping $9.8 million.
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