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Schulz Buys Santa Barbara Writers Conference
The Santa Barbara Writers Conference has a new owner: novelist Monte Schulz, son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. Schulz purchased the conference from bankruptcy and plans to re-launch it in 2011. The Schulz family has supported SBWC since its inception in 1972.
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Exhibitors, Attendees Upbeat at Las Vegas Licensing Show
Exhibitors and attendees at last week's Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas—including publishers, licensing agencies representing book-based properties, and retail book buyers—were cautiously optimistic that the licensing business may be about to turn a corner after a rough 2008 and 2009. As has been the case in recent years, much of the focus was on the tried-and-true, including classic properties, entertainment franchises, and retro licenses.
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Self-Publishing Expo Back in October
Self-Publishing Book Expo, which launched last November, will be back in October with a second event aimed at the rapidly-growing market of self-published authors.
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Fast-Growing Publishers Share Insights at IBPA's Publishing University
As part of the IBPA's Publishing University set for May 24-25 in New York, the heads of four houses that made PW's fast-growing small publishers list in 2010 will discuss the strategies that allowed them to grow during a recession.
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Los Angeles Book Festival Draws Record Crowd
The 15th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books drew a record-breaking crowd 0f 130,000 to the campus of UCLA over a sunny, cool weekend.
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LBF: Up from The Ashes
Though it seemed like something out of a science fiction novel, the reality that an active volcano in Iceland kept most Americans—and legions of Europeans—from attending this year's London Book Fair has started some thinking about the importance of the event itself. Reports from those who were at the fair said the rights hall seemed 50% vacant, and indications from LBF suggest atten...
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A Glimpse at Show Highlights
BookExpo America is a bellwether for trade book publishing. Simple numbers, of attendees and exhibitors, measure commitment to the value of old-fashioned community as part of what makes an industry an industry—even if the majority of the talk is about virtual community, viral marketing, and digital delivery of “content.
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BEA Announces CEO Panel with Galassi, Miller, Shanks, and Others
FSG president Jonathan Galassi will moderate a CEOs' panel discussion with Bob Miller, David Shanks, Esther Newberg and other publishing executives at BEA, convention organizers announced today. The panel will be jointly sponsored by the ABA and will serve as the Opening Plenary session, taking place from 8:30 to 10:00 AM on Tuesday, May 25. The discussion subject-"Value of a Book"-was partly inspired by an op-ed piece Galassi wrote in the Times in January, "There's More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen."
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The Future of the Book Might be in Librarians' Hands
Gregory (Wicked) Maguire's opening keynote, "No Place Like Home", got the first annual Empire State Book Festival in Albany, NY, on April 10, off to an inspirational start as a standing room only crowd listened attentively to his story of how he became a writer and the power of storytelling across different cultures. After Maguire's keynote, the Festival broke up into a series of scheduled signings by nearly 150 authors, along with an ambitious program featuring 42 different sessions--a mix of panel discussions, presentations and workshops--covering a myriad of topics and genres, from graphic novels and the importance of libraries, to poetry workshops and the requisite "Future of the Book" debate.
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Barbra Streisand to Headline BEA
BEA will be getting a little glitz on opening night when actress and singer Barbra Streisand takes the stage at the Opening Night Keynote Reception on Tuesday, May 25. Streisand will be interviewed about her first book, My Passion for Design, which Viking will publish on November 16.
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BEA and Above the Treeline Partner for Books@BEA
BEA is partnering with publishing business software company Above the Treeline to create a new online catalog at this May's trade show, featuring information about the titles on exhibit.
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Jon Stewart to Emcee BEA Author Breakfast
BookExpo America has announced its star lineup for the main Author Breakfast of the trade show, to take place on Thursday, May 27. Jon Stewart, who appeared at BEA in 2004, is returning to emcee the breakfast, and he will introduce the main speaker, Condoleezza Rice, whose first memoir is being published by Random House's Crown Publishing Group in October 2010.
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Copyright, iPhone Apps, and Virtual Reality Among Topics at TOC
More than 1,200 attendees packed into the main hall at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square for O'Reilly Media's fourth annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference to hear keynote presentations from the likes of Google counsel William Patry, Arianna Huffington, and Ingram's Skip Prichard, and to attend a dizzying arrangement of panels
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Spring Book Festivals 2010
Spring is coming! Time to mark your calendars for the spring book festivals, held in various cities around the nation to celebrate authors, books, literacy, and local library systems. The following 22 festivals are scheduled to take place from February through July 2010.
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Steven Rosato Promoted to BEA Event Director
Following the December 9 promotion of former BookExpo America show manager Lance Fensterman to group v-p of Reed Exhibitions, show officials today announced Steve Rosato, who has been with the company for 15 years, will take over as event director of BEA.
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Fensterman Promoted, Search on For Successor
BookExpo America manager Lance Fensterman has been promoted and Reed is looking for someone to take over his BEA duties.
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BEA 2010 Global Market Forum to Focus on Spain
Spain will be the focus of BookExpo 2010’s Global Market Forum, conference organizers announced today.
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2010 IDPF Conference to Be Held During BEA
The 2010 IDPF conference will be held in conjunction with BEA.
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Penguin Floats BEA Consumer-Event Concept
A dding a public component to BookExpo America has been one of the most hotly debated topics regarding possible changes to the annual event. BEA officials have discussed it internally and with their customers, and the concept has now received a major boost from Penguin, whose CEO, David Shanks, and president, Susan Petersen Kennedy, have outlined what they see as a viable way to bring book love...
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Word for Word Series Looks at New York Writers
A recent panel examines what part New York City plays in the works of different authors.
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