-
Boardwalk Empire: NAIBA on the Jersey Shore
Children's books were tightly woven into the warp and weft of this year's New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association fall conference, including the Moveable Feast at which authors like M.T. Anderson and Lincoln Peirce spoke. It could be a harbinger of the role that children's books will play in the upcoming holiday season.
-
Children's Books at the National Book Festival: A PW Photo-Essay
Marking its 10th anniversary this year, the National Book Festival took place this past Saturday in Washington, D.C. According to the Library of Congress, an estimated 150,000 book-lovers flocked to the National Mall to hear presentations from more than 70 authors, including many children's and YA writers.
-
West Hollywood Book Fair a Hot Ticket
An estimated 25,000 people, undeterred by temperatures in Los Angeles well over 100 degrees, attended the 9th annual West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday at West Hollywood Park to participate in literary panels, writing workshops, book signings, and author readings. The event has grown markedly since its inception in 2001.
-
The Digital Transition Dominates BISG Annual Meeting
The emphasis was on how the publishing industry can best navigate these uncertain times at the 2010 annual meeting of the Book Industry Study Group held in New York Friday morning. Both speakers and organization staff and committee members discussed programs and initiatives already launched or in the works to help all industry members better cope with publishing's rapid changes.
-
L.A. Times Festival of Books Moves From UCLA to USC Campus
In a move that seems as surprising as it is geographically disparate, the Los Angeles Times announced Wednesday that it is moving the location of its Festival of Books from UCLA to the campus of USC in 2011.
-
Petterson, Franzen Light Up Twin Cities
The Twin Cities felt like the center of the literary universe earlier this week when two high-profile authors with Minnesota connections headlined events drawing hordes of book lovers. Norwegian author Per Petterson, whose publisher, Graywolf, is headquartered in Minneapolis, was the headliner before an audience of more than 700 at that city’s Guthrie Theatre Monday evening, followed 24 hours later by Jonathan Franzen--whose parents grew up in Minnesota--kicking off the 11th season of the Talking Volumes regional book club series before a sold-out audience of more than 1,000 at the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul.
-
Capital BookFest Takes Book Fairs To the People
Frustrated by the lack of minority authors at Washington, D.C.'s annual National Book Festival, Kwame Alexander, a poet and independent producer of literary programs, launched Capital BookFest, a book fair focused on creating festival venues for top African-American authors.
-
Wolfe to Receive Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Tom Wolfe, whose books have won both critical acclaim and commercial success, has been named the winner of the National Book Foundation's 2010 winner of the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Joan Ganz Cooney was named the winner of the Literarian Award.
-
October Is National Reading Group Month
Next month marks the fourth annual celebration of National Reading Group Month. The Women's National Book Association began the 31-day endorsement of reading groups in 2007, and as in years past, this month's celebration will include activities hosted by traditional and online book clubs and at bricks-and-mortar bookstores and libraries.
-
ICv2 Debuts Conference on Comics and Digital at New York Comic-Con
Held in conjunction with New York Comic-Con, the ICv2 Comics and Digital Conference is scheduled to be held on October 7, the day before the show opens at the Javits Center in New York City. Much like the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference, the new Conference will bring together professionals from every part of the comics industry to discuss the impact of digital delivery on the future of comics publishing and retailing.
-
Small Press Expo Flies Indie Comics Flag
Among the most consistent shows on the convention circuit, the Small Press Expo in Betheda, Maryland continues to be a fun, friendly and successful show for the indie/art comix crowd. D&Q, Fantagraphics, Top Shelf and AdHouse Books led the publishers on hand, while cartoonists from Carla Speed McNeill to Keith Knight to Roger Langridge led the creator contingent.
-
The Brooklyn Book Festival in Pictures
An unfortunately rainy afternoon didn’t dampen spirits at yesterday’s Brooklyn Book Festival, the largest yet. Publishers, magazines, journals, local authors, and booksellers set up dozens of booths that sprawled across borough hall, and lines at the ticket booth snaked along the plaza.
-
Merits of Joint BEA/ALA Convention Weighed
The prospect of BookExpo America and the ALA annual convention being located in the same exhibit hall is being viewed warily by the different players in the publishing community. Those who appear the least enthused by the plan are the major New York trade houses with Penguin Group in the forefront.
-
Books@Eight Regional Fall Shows New from ATL
Above the Treeline, the Ann Arbor company that's been providing business intelligence tools to the industry for more than eight years, announced Wednesday that they have partnered with eight of the nine regional bookseller associations to provide digital catalogs at this fall's trade shows this month and next. The digital catalog program is similar to ATL's Books@BEA initiative this past spring, which featuring frontlist titles displayed at the show by 300 exhibitors; it was accessed by 5,000 BEA attendees.
-
Decatur Book Festival: PWxyz Was There
This weekend, authors and book lovers descended on Georgia for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival. Jonathan Franzen kicked off his Freedom tour at the festival, Confederacy of Dunces took to the stage and Lev Grossman talked fantasy, and that's just a bit of what happened. Former PW reviews editor Marc Shultz was there to cover the fest for PWxyz.
-
Reed in Talks with ALA About Running Trade Shows
Reed Exhibitions, parent company of BookExpo America, is in discussion with the American Library Association about taking over the organization’s two main meetings--the June annual convention and the January midwinter meeting. The process is far enough along that Reed has talked to a number of the major trade houses about the prospect and about the idea of combining BEA with the ALA annual meeting. The two shows typically run about a month apart; next year ALA is set for June 23-28 in New Orleans while BEA is scheduled for May 24-26 in New York City. Although the New York houses appear cool to the idea, there is not sufficient opposition to stop the process from moving forward. If a deal is reached, Reed is believed to favor locating BEA and the ALA annual meeting in 2012 in Chicago, creating in effect two shows under one roof. It wasn't clear if the shows would move around the country.
-
Brooklyn Book Festival to Take Place September 12
The Brooklyn Book Festival, which drew 30,000 people last year, is fine-tuning the 2010 celebration, which will take place on Sunday, September 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in and around Borough Hall and Columbus Park. In addition to an outdoor literary marketplace with 175 booksellers, publishers, presses, and organizations, over 200 authors will participate in panels and readings.
-
Beijing 2010: A Busy Fair with High Optimism
The five-day Beijing Book Fair, running August 30 through September 3, is off to a great start. The mood is optimistic and the aisles at Hall 8 (for international publishers) heavily trafficked.
-
Kentucky Author Forum Hits Sweet 16
Rare is the author who doesn't do a virtual author tour or video book trailer these days--yet the pleasure of hearing an author interviewed in-person is still going strong. The University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum, a nonprofit literary series that pairs (mostly) nonfiction authors with well-known personalities to interview them, is one such example.
-
Frankfurt Book Fair Launches Two Dedicated Tech Programs
The Frankfurt Book Fair is going to the techies. At least it's trying to. This year's fair, scheduled for October 6-10, will feature an increased focus on technology with two programs geared at education and networking. The trade show is launching what it dubs the SPARKS initiative, which will feature two central programs, Frankfurt Hot Spots and Frankfurt StoryDrive. Through the Hot Spots program, six areas or "hot spots" on the fair grounds will be dedicated spaces for publishing professionals to network with people who work in the technology field. The StoryDrive program will unfold over two days in the Film & Media Forum, and will focus on the various ways narratives are being told and packaged across mediums like print, film, and gaming.
Browse archive by date:
