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Live From BEA, Friday, May 30
PW's live coverage from BEA 2008 in Los Angeles: Updated 4:05pm
The Editors Buzz Panel; Thomas Friedman's Keynote Speech; Chat at the Children's Breakfast; IndieBound or Bust; For Indies, It's More Than Market Share -
Live from BEA, Thursday, May 29
PW's live coverage of BEA 2008 in Los Angeles:
The Skinny on Book Search and Content Giveaways; BEA kicks off in Hollywood Style; A panel on Web 2.0 and publishers; eMusic's CEO calls for an end to DRM; Pub-Forum Celebrates Online Community. -
Live from BEA, Thursday, May 29
PW's live coverage from BookExpo America 2008
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BEA Exhibitors: G - O
PW's guide supplements BEA's 600-plus-page exhibitor handbook. While that guide lists booth numbers, personnel, and autographings, this is the only listing that highlights titles and products being promoted at each booth, as well as giveaways and discounts being offered. G Galaxy Press Featured: Spy Killer, Under the Black Ensign, The Great Secret, If I Were You and Branded Outlaw, titles by L.
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BEA's Convention & Education Schedule
The ABA's Day of Education is being held on Thursday, May 29, at the Hotel ABA (the Renaissance Hollywood). Over at the convention center on Friday morning, room 403AB is going to be bustling. First up, from 8—9:15 a.m., will be the always popular BEA Editors Buzz Panel. Scheduled earlier than usual, the panel now delivers the pre-show buzz even before the show floor opens.
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BEA Exhibitors: A - F
PW's guide supplements BEA's 600-plus-page exhibitor handbook. While that guide lists booth numbers, personnel, and autographings, this is the only listing that highlights titles and products being promoted at each booth, as well as giveaways and discounts being offered. A A&C Black Publishers This first-time exhibitor is a U.
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BEA Exhibitors: P - Z
PW's guide supplements BEA's 600-plus-page exhibitor handbook. While that guide lists booth numbers, personnel, and autographings, this is the only listing that highlights titles and products being promoted at each booth, as well as giveaways and discounts being offered. P Paizo Publishing/ Planet Stories This first-time exhibitor publishes classic fantasy, science fiction and science fantasy n...
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Play It as L.A.
Of course you've already heard that the Hollywood sign and the entire mountain it resides on is for sale. Maybe you didn't. It was ironic news a few months ago. No one who lives here cares, and why should they. Not long ago, some preservation crazoid tried to save an apartment Charles Bukowski once rented.
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BEA Back to L.A.
Green and black are the colors of this year's BookExpo America, returning to Los Angeles for the first time since 2003. A large chunk of Friday's educational programming is devoted to going green—specifically how bookstores, publishing house and consumers can be more environmentally aware. Then on Saturday night, things turn black as The Daily Show comic Lewis Black performs at the Orpheu...
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Lance Fensterman
Like the tall, bespectacled storybook character hidden in plain sight in the Where's Waldo? books, Lance Fensterman's lanky 6'5” frame can be spotted with Blackberry in hand in a variety of tableaux at BookExpo America—author breakfasts, workshops and publishers' booths. “I like to be all over the show,” says Fensterman, “talking with people to know about how they'...
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Graphic Novel Breakfast at BEA
In a first for BookExpo America, this year's show will hold a breakfast panel featuring four acclaimed comics creators offering their insights into the growth of the graphic novel category. Pulitzer Prize—winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and writer and Heroes producer Jeph Loeb will be interviewed by Jeff Smith, creator of the bestselling fantasy graphic nov...
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After Nelson’s Pullout, Publishers Ponder BEA
Is BEA worth it? That question has been whispered among industry types for years when the topic turns to the goliath of business trade shows, BookExpo America. The question resurfaced when Nashville-based religion publisher Thomas Nelson announced last week that it is dropping out of the show. Nelson, which will also skip ICRS, the Christian equivalent to BEA, said that the “economic down...
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Weak Dollar Makes For Tricky Show
The weak dollar was a key factor at this year's Bologna Fair, as American publishers found the market tough for buying, but great for selling. Francesca Dow at Puffin said, “The state of the dollar certainly makes buying anything from Europe even tougher.” On the other hand, as Chris Boral of Chronicle Books put it, “It did seem like there were a lot of shoppers, and we were t...
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Wrapping Up Bologna
The state of the U.S. economy hung over this year’s Bologna Fair, as American publishers found the market tough for buying, but great for selling. Despite the sunshine and a busy schedule, Francesca Dow, managing director at Puffin, said, “The underlying mood felt quite sober. The state of the U.S. dollar certainly makes buying anything from Europe even tougher.”
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Riordan Talks Up Clues in Bologna
Bestselling author Rick Riordan was brought to Bologna by Scholastic to introduce The 39 Clues series, a multi-platform middle-grade adventure series, which launches this September. Hyperion also announced a million-copy print run for the fourth Percy Jackson book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, as well as two new series from the author.
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Children’s Book Week Springs into New Territory
For the first time in its 88-year history, Children’s Book Week moves from its traditional home in November to early May this year.
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Emerging e-Book Market Top Subject at IDPF Conference
The emerging e-book market will be the top subject at the upcoming IDPF Digital Book 2008 conference on May 14.
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PEN Kicks Off World Voices Festival on The Queen Mary 2
About 200 industry professionals were the guests of PEN on the Queen Mary 2 yesterday to give an early launch to the organizations upcoming PEN World Voices Festival.
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Spring Book Show to Hilton
Tornado damages forces the Spring Book Show to move to the Atlanta Hilton.
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London Book Fair '08: What's in Your Briefcase?
American publishers and agents will be shopping an eclectic group of literary wares in the rights area at London this year; the offerings include, a tale about moonshining; holiday recipes from Nigella Lawson; the controversial post-mortem collection from Raymond Carver; a grisly whodunit from David Cronenberg; and a take on First Lady-dom from Curtis Sittenfeld.
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