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Children’s Books Front and Center at Midwest Show
Children’s books played a prominent part in the Midwest Booksellers Association’s annual meeting and trade show, held last weekend in St. Paul. To no one’s surprise, in the wake of Stephenie Meyer’s incredible success with the Twilight series, YA novels that contain magic, vampires or paranormal themes were popular with booksellers trying to anticipate the next big YA hit.
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Record-Breaking Crowds at the National Book Festival
The ninth annual National Book Festival took place last Saturday in Washington, D.C., with a record-breaking attendance of more than 130,000. Numerous children’s book authors and illustrators were present—including Jon Scieszka, Kate DiCamillo, Jeff Kinney, Judy Blume, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, among many more. See our extensive photo-essay after the jump.
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Children's Authors Sparkle at MBA
The children’s book and author breakfast, which traditionally kicks off the trade show portion of the Midwest Booksellers Association’s annual gathering, is usually a literary-star studded affair, and this year was no exception. Nearly 200 groggy booksellers straggled into St. Paul’s RiverCentre last Saturday morning to hear an A-list of children’s authors: Loren Long, M.T. Anderson, Catherine Gilbert Murdock and Neil Gaiman...
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Mountains & Plains Booksellers Gets Boost from Guns, Tourists, Hype
The talk at the Mountain and Plains Independent Booksellers Association meeting centered around the hope that the holidays will bring better sales to a soft year.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Survey Finds Publishers In Search of New Business Models
Just over 72% of publishers taking part in a survey on the impact of digitization on book publishing said the development of new business models, new multimedia products and effective marketing strategies are the biggest challenges facing publishers as they make the transition from print to digital.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Briefcase 2009
Ann Brasheres grows up, Bret Easton Ellis heads back to his L.A. roots, Julia Childs's grand-nephew talks H2O, Julie Powell hits the butcher block, Eoin Colfer does his best Douglas Adams impression and George Romero lays down the rules of zombie-dom—that and more in PW's roundup of the big books up for grabs at this year's fair.
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Bologna Reinstates Fourth Day
The Bologna Children's Book Fair has yielded to protests and reinstated the fourth day of the event. The 2010 fair will now take place from Tuesday to Friday, March 23-26. A group of U.K. publishers petitioned Bologna after they had learned that the 2010 fair had been scheduled to take place over three days rather than the usual four. Gloria Bailey, manager of international book fairs at the Publishers Association, met Bologna Fair director Roberta Chinni...
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PW talks with Monika Krauss
"The lack of proper distribution channels and book information is critical. Sometimes, even Arab publishers themselves have no information about or access to books published in countries other than their own."
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Kids' and YA Authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival
More than 200 authors and illustrators participated in the Brooklyn Book Festival this past Sunday, many of whom were creators of books for children. The one-day festival drew 30,000 attendees, according to the Village Voice; more than 150 booksellers, publishers and other organizations were on hand as well. See our photos from the event.
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Fall List, E-Books, Survival Top PNBA Topics
Portland was the setting for this year's first regional trade show and though numbers were down from the peak years, booksellers were hopeful that this fall will bring a boost in sales. Getting involved with the sale of e-books and the future of the PNBA show were other hot topics.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Frankfurt Survey Examines New Business Models
The Frankfurt Book Fair is conducting a survey of what the world’s publishers believe will be the business models of the future.
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Russia Will Be Market Focus at 2011 London Book Fair
Russia will be the market focus and guest of honor at the 2011 London Book Fair. The decision was based on Russian publishing’s rapid growth in the past two decades and on the success of the Russian Pavilion and Russian Literature Week, which were held in conjunction with LBF 2009.
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U.K. Publishers Protest Bologna Curtailment
Representatives from more than 30 publishers, literary agencies and other firms in the U.K. have signed a petition protesting against the shortening of the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Sarah Pakenham of Andersen Press and Margot Edwards of Piccadilly Press organized the petition in dismay both at the reduction of the fair from four days to three and at a failure to introduce a corresponding reduction in fees.
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National Reading Group Month Set for October
For the third year in a row, the Women's National Book Association has designated October as National Reading Group Month. This year’s festivities will include events with authors of books that have been popular with book clubs, in each of the Association's 10 chapter cities: Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Charlotte, N.C.
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GABBS Does Boston
Even before the opening of last weekend’s Great American Bargain Book Show (Aug. 21-22), which moved from Atlanta to Boston’s Hynes Convention Center for the first time, booksellers were primed.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Random House Cancels Frankfurt Party
In a sign of the economic times, Random House has canceled its famed curtain-raising soiree during the Frankfrut Book Fair.
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Rethinking the Fall Regionals
Many of the same challenges that turned 2009 into a transitional year for BookExpo America—declining ABA membership, a down economy and cost-consciousness on the part of both booksellers and exhibitors—are playing havoc with the approaching fall regional trade shows. Unlike the ABA, however, the fate of the regionals is more closely tied to the success of their shows, which, along w...
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2009 Regional Trade Show Roundup
Getting a handle on social networking and staring down the economic crisis are the two realities that all independent booksellers are facing this year. The trade shows this fall cannot help addressing these concerns, both in their announced educational programs and in the informal networking that makes gathering together in person so meaty.
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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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Kids' Authors Team Up for 'Exquisite Corpse'
Plans are ramping up for the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., which will take place on September 26. For 2009, the Library of Congress and the National Children’s Book and Literary Alliance have teamed up with 18 children’s book authors and illustrators for a special presentation entitled The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, an ongoing story that will be unveiled over the course of a year.
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