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BookExpo America 2010: Publishing for the Age of Abundance
Copyright may not be dead, but it is irrelevant, noted Cursor's Richard Nash at a Wednesday morning panel entitled Rights, Royalties & Retailers: What Works. In his opening remarks, Nash spoke about publishing in the "age of abundance," telling attendees that success in the digital age is no longer about securing lifetime monopolies associated with copyright, or controlling the content pipe, but about "your moxie." Nash, who announced his upstart Cursor model in PW last year, showcased the centerpiece of his business: three-year deals. "That doesn’t mean after three years, you lose your author," Nash noted. "You renegotiate."
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BookExpo America 2010: Children's Breakfast Report
Children's book fans at the show turned out bright and early last Wednesday morning during BEA for the annual Children's Book and Author Breakfast, presented with the support of the ABA, ABC, and CBC. Given her late-breaking influence-peddling scandal, all eyes were on master of ceremonies Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, who showed off a self-deprecating sense of humor in her opening remarks.
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Booth Offer Correction
An error was made in the Around the Booths BEA Exhibitor Guide (April 26 issue) for the American Girl Publishing listing. There is no drawing for an American Girl doll at the booth, but rather, for an order of $1000, accounts will get free freight plus a doll drawing display for their store. American Girl Publishing can be found at booths 2458 and 2459. PW regrets the error.
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BookExpo America 2010: Buzzing about Books
Editors were advised to keep it interesting at Tuesday's Editor's Buzz panel and they did not disappoint. One of the six buzz books flogged has a three-page sex scene between a talking monkey and a woman. "It's not bestiality," said Cary Goldstein, the book's editor at Twelve, "It's love."
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BookExpo America 2010: 'Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales' Takes Audie Honors
The Audio Publishers Association presented the 15th annual Audie Awards, celebrating another year of record submissions and exceptional production and marketing of audiobooks, last night at the Museum of the City of New York. Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (Hachette Audio) took top honors for Audiobook of the Year.
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NYU Center for Publishing To Host Training Seminar in Abu Dhabi
The New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies Center for Publishing today announced that it will host a series of professional publishing seminars beginning this fall for Arab publishers. The venture will be hosted in partnership with KITAB, a joint venture of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and the Frankfurt Book Fair, and will be conducted by NYU-SCPS Center for Publishing faculty from New York. It will hosted at NYU's new campus in Abu Dhabi.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: Kids' Galleys to Grab
There will be plenty of options for fans of the supernatural and dystopian at BEA this year, as well as highly anticipated books from Cornelia Funke, Cassandra Clare, Ally Condie, and many more.
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Global E-books and The Agency Model at IDPF's Digital Book 2010
The impact of the agency model on distributors and small e-retailers was one of the hot topics at Tuesday's IDPF day-long seminar. Ingram's Andrew Weinstein said many issues are still being trashed about, while Books on Board president Bob LiVolsi said the implementation of the new model was "pitiful," and questioned its viability. He noted that in his e-store, sales of publishers still on the wholesale model, like Random House and Harlequin, have seen big sales gains.
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BookExpo America 2010: Online Communities Meet the Real World
A community of more than 200 BEA attendees gathered together in Javits Tuesday to listen to a panel of experts discuss "Building Online Communities With an Eye to ROI." Moderated by PW contributing editor and digital content strategist Charlotte Abbott, the panel turned into a lively multimedia event, as about 25 audience members joined panelists Kelly Leonard, executive director of online marketing for the Hachette Book Group; Neil Strandberg, the manager of operations for the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver; and Richelle Mead, author of the Vampire Academy series, in Tweeting comments and questions during the presentation.
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BookExpo America 2010: ABA to Partner with Google
Ever since Winter Institute, there has been much buzz about a possible partnership between ABA and Google. Tuesday the two made it official at a session on Google Editions during the ABA Day of Education with ABA COO Len Vlahos and Tom Turvey, director of strategic partnerships for Google. Both groups will partner on digital books starting with the official launch of Google Editions this summer."Think of us as Ingram. We're wholesaling that digital book and providing that book to you," explained Turvey.
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BookExpo America 2010: CEOs Debate E-books, Piracy, and the Value of the Book
E-books figured prominently in the CEO panel on the value of a book that kicked off a day of educational programming at BEA. Piracy was one of the topics of debate as was when e-books should be released. Authors Guild president Scott Turow said fighting piracy should be a top priority for publishers.
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BookExpo America 2010: Walking the Floor with Steve Rosato
Though it may be his first year as event director of BookExpo America, Steve Rosato is no newbie. He's been working on BEA for 12 years and, in a walk-around he gave to PW before the show floor opens on Wednesday, he was calmer than you might expect a director to be just hours before launch. "It's almost quiet to the point I’m nervous," Rosato joked, when asked if the show setup was going smoothly. Then again, Rosato is the first to point out that the numbers are good, and that's what’s really behind his cheery mood.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: Alyson Noel Steps onto Middle-Grade Turf
With more than 1.8 million books in print, Alyson Noël's the Immortals series has clearly scored a hit with teen readers. In Radiance (Square Fish, Sept.), the author makes her middle-grade debut, launching a paranormal series that's a spinoff of her bestselling YA series.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: David Wiesner Brings Creative Process to Life
A three-time Caldecott Medalist, most recently in 2007 for Flotsam, David Wiesner has a new picture book for the fall, Art and Max (Clarion, Oct.). A 250,000-copy first printing is on order for the title, which centers on two lizard friends: Arthur, an accomplished artist, and Max, who is a beginner—but a fast learner.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: Arlene Alda: Playing on Her Musical Past
“When I was a kid, I loved music but hated to practice,” says Arlene Alda, who ultimately abandoned the piano, but went on to play clarinet in the Houston Symphony. Her latest picture book, Lulu’s Piano Lesson (Tundra, Aug.), introduces a girl who would rather listen to the squeak of a swing or the ring of her bike bell than the sound of the piano at practice time. Luckily, Lulu has a wise piano teacher who knows how to inspire his reluctant student.
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BookExpo America 2010: Perseus App Uses Crowdsourcing to Find Show's Hottest Titles
More BEA app news: Perseus Books Group is releasing a mobile application identifying the industry's hottest fall books, complementing anecdotal reporting with mobile-enabled expert crowd-sourcing. The app, named 10x10, will enable every BEA attendee to pick the 10 books from publishers' fall 2010 lists that they are most excited about. Convention-goers can also participate by entering their selections online, as well as on any mobile device and smartphone with web access. KiwiTech developed the app.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: Jennifer Donnelly Returns to the YA Realm
The lives of two teenage girls—one from present-day Brooklyn, the other from late 19th-century Paris—intersect in Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly's first YA novel in more than six years. Her earlier work of fiction for young adults, A Northern Light, was a Printz Honor book and won the Carnegie Medal in the U. K. Delacorte will publish Revolution in September with a 250,000-copy first printing.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: James Dashner: A Challenging Start
Authors often say that fictional characters have a way of taking on a life and a voice of their own, inside their creator's imagination. James Dashner knows the feeling well. "Unless you're a writer, you would think we're psycho," he jokes. Clearly, the voices of Thomas and the other "Gladers" who star in Dashner's 2009 dystopian thriller, The Maze Runner, still have plenty to say.
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: Judith Viorst: What a Lulu of a Girl
Despite her parents' naysaying, a strong-willed girl is determined to acquire a pet dinosaur in Lulu and the Brontosaurus (Atheneum, Sept.), an early chapter book by Judith Viorst. Illustrated by Lane Smith, the book first sprang to life during the author's storytelling sessions with grandsons Nathanial and Benjamin, now six and nine. "We spend time together in Maine every year, and one rainy day I began making up stories about a girl named Lulu," she explains. "I became quite interested in this girl and her desire for something impossible, and the boys, too, were intrigued by her."
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BEA 2010 Show Daily: Lemony Snicket: In Search of BEA Swag
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, must be fond of the number 13. His darkly funny A Series of Unfortunate Events series spanned 13 books, and now his latest project, a picture book illustrated by Maira Kalman, is entitled 13 Words (HarperCollins, Oct.). Snicket and Kalman are signing broadsides of the book today, 2–3 p.m., at Table 16, at a ticketed autographing.
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