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BEA 2013: Alice McDermott: One Woman’s Voice
You wouldn’t think in the 21st century that it would be seen as an act of conceit to write a novel from one common woman’s point of view, but that’s how author Alice McDermott perceives her seventh novel, Someone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Sept.).
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BEA 2013: A. Scott Berg: On the Emotional Side of Wilson
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked,” says A. Scott Berg, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of four bestselling biographies including Lindbergh and Max Perkins.
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BEA 2013: Chelsea Handler: Reading Is Her Passion
Thursday’s Book and Author Breakfast may have its usual early start, but there will be no dozing off this year.
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BEA 2013: Jan-Philipp Sendker: The Heart Beat
It took 10 years for German writer Jan-Philipp Sendker to get his bestselling debut novel, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, printed in the United States, but he never gave up his dream to publish here.
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BEA 2013: Kevin Henkes: Inspired by His Kids
Distinctly versatile Kevin Henkes, who received the Caldecott Medal for Kitten’s Full Moon and Newbery Honors for Olive’s Ocean, targets a slightly different audience in The Year of Billy Miller (Greenwillow, Sept.).
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BEA 2013: Peter Gethers: It’s Easier to Love the Cat
Although he admits to being too squeamish to become an animal doctor, publishing veteran Peter Gethers, author of the bestselling cat trilogy about his beloved cat Norton, has written Ask Bob (Holt, Aug.), a new novel about a vet and pet columnist in New York City who discovers that the best relationships are often the most surprising.
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BEA 2013: Lisa Scottoline: Inspired by Her Family
Chatting with bestselling crime novelist Lisa Scottoline, whose latest Rosato & Associates book is Accused (St. Martin’s, Oct.), is reminiscent of listening to the late Erma Bombeck read one of her commentaries about life: there is no pretense or self-consciousness, but plenty of warm laughter that spills over and punctuates her self-assessment.
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BEA 2013: Doris Kearns Goodwin: Unfriending, 20th-Century Style
“I love the Progressive Era: it’s one of the most dramatic and exciting eras in American history,” historian Doris Kearns Goodwin declares of the early 20th century.
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BEA 2013: Ishmael Beah: After War
Ishmael Beah came to prominence as a former child soldier who survived the civil war in Sierra Leone and wrote of his harrowing experiences in the 2007 bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone.
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BEA 2013: IDPF 2013: Authors, Readers, Data, the Future
While there was much anticipation over Goodreads founder Otis Chandler's post-Amazon-acquisition update at this year's IDPF 2013 Digital Book Conference at BEA, it was Writer's Digest publisher Phil Sexton who might have stolen the day, with the results of a survey of author reactions to self-publishing vs. traditional publishing.
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HC Providing Digital Galleys to Its Authors
HarperCollins has started a new program called e-Insider that will deliver digital galleys to its authors to use in their promotional efforts.
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BEA 2013: The Readium Foundation Revs Up
March 25 marked an important step forward in the evolution of digital publishing: the introduction of the Readium Foundation, a membership-based nonprofit formed to develop commercial-grade, open source e-reading software.
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BEA 2013: Navigating the Digital Path
The year 2015 may be a landmark year for many educational publishers, says CMO Rahul Arora of MPS Limited.
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BEA 2013: The E-book Boom Years
E-book sales of trade titles rose 44% in 2012 and have skyrocketed an astounding 4,660% since the format first began to gain traction in 2008, according to BookStats, the book industry statistical program overseen by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group.
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BEA 2013: Digital Readers: E Ink, Tablets, Phones, and Phablets
While Amazon and Apple continue to dominate the digital reading marketplace with their respective devices, that hasn’t stopped other manufacturers from introducing new upgraded e-readers, both dedicated E Ink devices, tablets, and hybrids.
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BEA 2013: Discovering the Digital players
To accommodate the growing number of digital companies that are now exhibiting at the show, BookExpo America officials have revamped and expanded the exhibit area into a new Digital Discovery Zone.
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BEA 2013: The Seven Deadly Myths of Digital Publishing
E-books may now outsell mass market paperbacks, but successfully selling digital editions of novels and other text-centric titles is only the first phase of a profound transformation of all segments of the traditional book publishing business.
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Publishing Hackathon Prepares for BEA
The Publishing Hackathon, a collaborative digital programming event for the book publishing industry focused on solving the digital discovery challenge, happened over 32 hours last weekend.
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BEA Upbeat: Consumer Day, Live Streaming Plans
Two weeks before BookExpo America officially kicks off, officials have released details on its live streaming program and talked a bit about expectations for the second consumer day planned for Saturday June 1.
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Hackathon Update
Approximately 170 hackers have signed up so far to take part in the Perseus Books Group-sponsored Publishing Hackathon, an event designed to put together teams to develop new approaches to book discoverability.
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