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Baltimore's Otakon Draws 28,000 Anime, Manga Fans
Despite a false fire alarm that forced an evacuation of the convention center, the 17th annual Otakon convention, held at the Baltimore Convention Center this past weekend, attracted more than 28,000 anime and manga fans along with about 1230 staff and dealer/exhibitors.
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Milo Manara at Comic-Con
Italian cartoonist Milo Manara is internationally known for erotically rendered graphic novels. The author of both slyly and blatantly sexual works such as Click, Butterscotch, Indian Summer and Trip to Tulum (with Frederico Fellini), Manara was visiting this year's San Diego Comic-Con to announce that Dark Horse is publishing his works in a complete multi-volume edition.
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Photo Mania: 7/27/10 SDCC 2010
The San Diego Comic-Con International 2010 may be over but we've brought back a host of images to remind us of just about everything that happened. From comics and cartoonists to movies and costumed fans, here are some of the images of this year's Comic-con.
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The Comic-Con Movie Freight Train Hauls Some Books
It's become a kind of broken record, but this year's San Diego Comic-con, like last year's Comic-con, was dominated by the hype and marketing machines of the Hollywood film and TV studios. From the buzz generating around the release of Universal's Scott Pilgrim film next month and, later this year, AMC's Walking Dead, to a bulked-up lineup of superhero movies coming next year--DC's Green Lantern and Marvel's Thor and Captain America films--Comic-con is the ultimate platform for hyping big budget film and TV projects, whether they're based on comics or not.
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More Monster-Classics Mashups from IDW
With an eye on the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con, comics publisher IDW Publishing is trying its hand at prose and plans to release an anthology of genre mashups called Classics Mutilated, featuring novella-length stories by a host of prominent horror and fantasy writers. To highlight the volume at Comic-Con, IDW is also making one of the book's novellas, Dread Island by Joe Lansdale available as a standalone preview show special, and also has plans to release it in multiple print formats.
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A Peek at the July 5 'PW'
The issue kicks-off with a look at how and why Barnes & Noble plans to transform itself into a major retailer of digital content and e-readers. B&N's makeover is not playing well on Wall Street however, and the company's stock was the biggest loser of all industry stocks in the first half of 2010. In all, the Publishers Weekly Stock Index fell over 14% in the six month period. Metadata is something publishers and others need to embrace and a piece explains why. Former NEA official David Kipen is preparing for his next act--owner of a lending library and used bookstore. The issue also features audio listing and an analysis of what higher unit sales but lower revenue means for the audio industry. Comic-con is around the corner and a feature examines what the prospects are for the giant gathering to remain in San Diego.
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Richard Brown's AAUP Presidential Address
A transcript of the Georgetown University Press director's speech.
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Facing the Facts: University Presses in the Digital Age
The future is now: That's the message university and scholarly presses received at the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses held in Salt Lake City from June 17 to 20. The conference, titled "Toward a Sustainable Future," conveyed a sense of urgency in dealing with the changes now facing scholarly publishing.
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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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