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San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl Set for Sunday
The first San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl will be held on Sunday, February 26 and begins at Green Apple Books
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BEA Finalizes Lineup for Children's Breakfast
BookExpo America has announced that Glee's Chris Colfer, author of the forthcoming The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (Little, Brown), will serve as emcee for the BEA convention's Children’s Book and Author Breakfast.
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IBPA Publishing University Features Chandler and Piersanti Keynotes
Chandler and Piersanti join more than 50 industry experts who will present a day and a half of programs designed to provide publishers of all sizes with the tools to promote, market, and sell more books.
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Technology at The Forefront of Upbeat Toy Fair
The approximately 30 publishers exhibiting at the 2012 New York International Toy Fair, held at the Javits Center, February 11–15, saw full aisles and strong orders for the first time in several years. The Toy Industry Association’s preliminary figures estimated attendance was up 4%, to 34,000. “We’ve been very impressed with the traffic,” said Shannon Roof, director of national accounts, Carson-Dellosa, which was highlighting its expanded Guinness World Records and Crayola licenses and its Summer Bridge workbooks. Meanwhile, attendees’ mood was positive, exhibitors said, despite a 2% decline in retail sales of toys and games in the U.S. last year, to $21.18 billion, according to the NPD Group. “It’s a very good show, very upbeat,” reported John Donofrio, owner of Briarpatch, which makes board games tied to book properties including I Spy. “I think it’s going to be a good year.”
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BEA Adds Children's Day, Could Admit Public in 2013
It’s not just the timing—one week later than usual—that makes this year’s BookExpo stand out. Among the tweaks is a dedicated day for children’s booksellers. And looking ahead to 2013 it could invite the public on the last day.
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WBN Deadline Extended
World Book Night U.S. has extended the deadline for people to sign up to be book givers as well as for bookstores, libraries and other locations to distribute the books until February 6. The deadline had been February 1. For those interested in participating go to www.worldbooknight.org.
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NCIBA Announces New Dates and Location for 2012 Fall Trade Show
The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association will move its annual trade show to South San Francisco and cut one day from the 2012 schedule.
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Mazama Book Festival to Debut in the Pacific Northwest
The picturesque town of Mazama, Wash., located near the gateway to the northern Cascade mountain range, will be the site of the first Mazama Festival of Books the last weekend of August.
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A Winning Winter Institute
Buoyed by a strong finish to 2011, indie booksellers celebrated their independence at this year’s seventh annual American Booksellers Association Winter Institute held at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans, January 18–20. Some who recently opened second stores, like Peter Makin at Brilliant Books, in Suttons Bay, Mich., are already looking to expand again. Others like Linda Bubon and Ann Christophersen, cofounders of Women and Children First in Chicago, are simply happy to see sales turn around, up more than 30% for the holidays.
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ALA Midwinter 2012: All Our Coverage
All of our coverage of this year's ALA Midwinter conference in one place.
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Reed Exhibitions Buys Blogger Convention
Reed Exhibitions, owner of BookExpo America, has purchased the Book Blogger Convention, an annual day-long conference devoted to providing support, instruction, and social time for people who blog about books.
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Germany Joins World Book Night 2012
World Book Night has announced that Germany is the second international partner alongside the United States to stage a national one million book giveaway for adults on April 23rd, the Unesco International Day of the Book.
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It's Official: MIBA and GLiBA Will Hold Joint Show
MIBA and GLiBA have made it official: they will hold a joint show in Minneapolis October 3-5, and call it the Heartland Fall Forum.
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TOC 2012: What To Expect From This Year's Conference
Program chairs Joe Wikert and Kat Meyer tell PW what we should expect from the conference this year. Click through for a discount code to the event, good for 25% off any package.
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2012 International Book Fair Calendar
The following list is based on currently available information and is subject to change. Please note that some foreign URLs can be unstable or are Web pages not yet updated with 2012 information. We will update this list online to keep the information as current as possible. If you represent a book fair and have changes to report or would like to have your fair listed, please contact bookfairs@publishersweekly.com.
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Savannah Book Festival Comes Of Age
At just five years old, the Savannah Book Festival, in the genteel coastal city of Savannah, Ga., is carving a space for itself among the book festival big leagues, boasting not one but two of the nation’s current #1 bestselling authors: Stephen King (for 11/22/63) and Walter Isaacson (Steve Jobs).
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Quindlen Named World Book Night Chair; Selections Revealed
Anna Quindlen has been named honorary national chairperson for World Book Night U.S., and the organization has named the 30 titles that will be given away on World Book Night, set for April 23. In addition, World Book Night U.S. has opened the registration process for those wishing to become volunteer book givers.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Ignites Publishing App Expo Discussion
The first day of the Publishing App Expo, hosted by Mediabistro, Galleycat, and eBookNewser, brought together digitally-minded publishers from all over and inspired a lively discussion at the New Yorker Hotel.
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Hajdu and Rotella at the Tenement Museum
David Hajdu and PW senior editor Mark Rotella will be at The Tenement Museum on December 7, at 6:30 PM, as part of the "Tenement Talks" series.
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PW's Complete 2012 ALA Midwinter Preview
PW's complete ALA Midwinter Preview, our look at what to expect at this year's American Library Association Midwinter meeting, held in Dallas from January 20-24, 2012.
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