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BEA 2012: At the Children's Breakfast, Dreams and Responsibility
If there was a theme to Wednesday’s Children’s Book and Author Breakfast, it was that reading books does not just educate and entertain young readers, it can inspire them to, in speaker Lois Lowry’s words, “fix this world.” National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Walter Dean Myers (l.) set the tone for the event in his welcoming remarks to a packed hall of 1,100 booksellers. “Reading has made my life, reading has transformed my existence,” Myers declared.
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BEA 2012: Is Brazil the Next Russia?
Representing an entire nation isn't easy, but fewer than 30 people are doing just that for Brazil at BEA. Most of the group is authors, who hope that their 2012 efforts to raise awareness of Brazil's rich literary environment will pay off in subsequent years—with the goal of becoming BEA's Global Market Forum country.
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BEA 2012: The Big Books: What They're Saying
The quest for booksellers on the floor of BookExpo America can take some unanticipated turns, like meeting Richard Ford at the entrance to the show. His latest book, Canada, he says graciously, is "old news," and he's just arrived at BEA, but he's looking forward to James Salter's new book, Cassada, out on September 11 from Counterpoint.
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PW BEA Show Daily, June 7, 2012
Keep up with all the goings-on at BookExpo America by reading the complete text of today's PW BEA Show Daily.
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BEA 2012: Swedenborg’s Many Offerings
Swedenborg Foundation Press, publisher of the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg in the U.S. for more than 150 years, is showcasing its newest titles. Despite publishing only 10 books a year, the Pennsylvania publisher sees benefit in attending BEA as part of the Independent Book Publishers Association at booth 3047.
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BEA 2012: Tristan Scores a 10
Ten years ago, Tristan Publishing launched at the Upper Midwest Booksellers Association fall trade show with a single release, entitled, appropriately enough, Beginning by Warren Hanson, a prose poem about the combination of fear and excitement one feels when starting something new. This week, with 50 titles in print by the end of 2012, the publisher of inspirational books for all ages is building up steam for a blowout celebration, to be held this fall at its Minneapolis headquarters.
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BEA 2012: Another Presidential Candidate
As a comedian, actor, writer, and producer of short films, Canadian Brian Calvert is completely unqualified for most jobs—but especially politics—which makes him think that he is the perfect person to go head-to-head with America’s very own unqualified presidential candidates. As the self-appointed leader of the Canada Party, Calvert, along with “campaign chairman” Chris Cannon, have announced the party’s CANADAcy for president of the United States. Cannon, a Canuck and writer of numerous books and articles about rock ’n’ roll, is equally unqualified.
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BEA 2012: Saddleback Trots Out New Series
Founded 30 years ago, Saddleback Educational Publishing releases a wide selection of books aimed at students in middle school and high school who have poor reading and/or learning skills. In recent years, the publisher has launched a number of fiction series with content and covers suitable for middle-grade and YA readers, yet written at elementary-grade reading levels. President Arianne McHugh is at BEA to spread word of the company’s latest series launch, Lockwood Lions.
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BEA 2012: Lighting Up The Store
After a two-year absence from BEA, Mighty Bright (6275), which designs and manufactures LED lights for book reading (as well as doing crafts and reading music), is returning to the Javits Center and looking forward to introducing new lighting designs to indie booksellers.
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BEA 2012: Literature Thrives at Bellevue
When you cruise the Consortium Book Sales and Distribution aisle, stop to congratulate the small, nonprofit Bellevue Literary Press (3905a) on both its fifth anniversary and its prize-winning authors (present in spirit only). Of the eight fiction titles BLP has published in its short history, three have received major literary honors: The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (a 2011 National Book Award finalist) recently received the first annual Chautauqua Prize, The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the New York Times bestseller Tinkers by Paul Harding received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize.
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BEA 2012: Milestones Aplenty
While Hal Leonard is generally renowned for publishing sheet music and songbooks, its trade book division, Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group (HLPAPG), will be in the spotlight this fall, thanks to a number of very special anniversaries.
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BEA 2012: Aptara/PW Survey on Digital Growth
Aptara, which enriches content for digital distribution, has just completed its fourth annual E-book Survey for Publishers, this year done in cooperation with PW. The new results show a number of notable changes, reflecting the growing influence of digital in the book industry; most significantly, there was a 100% year-over-year increase in the number of publishers who reported drawing more than 10% of their annual revenue from e-books.
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BEA 2012: Wise-Guy Wisdom
When Justin Halpern was about to propose to his girlfriend of five years, he decided to tell his father about it—the one that millions around the world came to know through the author’s bestselling Sh*t My Dad Says, which started as a Twitter feed that went viral and then spent 11 weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Halpern tells Show Daily, “My dad suggested I take a day to think about what I’ve learned so far in my life in relationships and about myself, and if at the end of that day, I still wanted to propose, to do it. So I did that, and I wanted to propose at the end of that day, but I also realized I might have a good structure for a book.”
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BEA 2012: Celebrating ‘the Weird’
Authors Walter Mosley (The Gift of Fire/On the Head of a Pin) and John Scalzi (Redshirts) and editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (The Weird) praised genre-crossing and speculative fiction in a Tuesday panel sponsored by Tor Books, and moderated by Tor.com columnist Ryan Britt.
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BEA 2012: Reno to Run RKP
Tosca Reno—author, diet and fitness guru, and reality TV star—is extremely confident about the future of her company as she settles into her new role as president of Robert Kennedy Publishing (RKP, booth 3758). Reno took the reins of RKP following the death of her husband, publisher Robert Kennedy, in April of this year.
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BEA 2012: Hoover Institution Press Experts Have Their Say
Timeliness and relevance is on the minds of editors at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Press, with two new books that touch on hot topics of the day: Clint Bolick’s Two-Fer: Electing a President and a Supreme Court, about the importance of the coming election in terms of the Supreme Court, and Fouad Ajami’s The Syrian Rebellion, about events in the Middle East.
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BEA 2012: Licensing at BEA
A number of companies will be exhibiting licensed properties, products, and books at BEA. Here is a selection of some of them. Atlantyca Entertainment (4008), a transmedia content producer, distributor, and licensor based in Italy, will showcase its best-known property, Geronimo Stilton, as well as a variety of other licenses. The latter include Lily Lace, the Enchanted Emporium (La bottega Battibaleno), Minerva Mint, Spaghetti Gang, Space Gramps, and Echo and the Bat Pat. Atlantyca will be introducing its properties to publishers and meeting with potential licensees at the show.
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BEA 2012: A Paradigm Shift in Reading
Differing forecasts for social reading made for a lively panel discussion on Tuesday featuring representatives from Kobo, Tumblr, and Germany’s Readmill, all trailblazers in the social reading milieu.
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BEA 2012: Buzzing the Librarians
Librarians packed the room and listened to fast-paced and often funny presentations by publishers at the AAP Librarian Book Buzz yesterday.
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