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BookExpo America 2009: Amazon Reaches Out to Small Pubs
More than 120 small publishers jammed into a meeting room at Javits Friday afternoon to listen to Jon Fine, Amazon.com director of author and publisher relations, explain how Amazon can help them sell more books if they take advantage of free services provided by the company.
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BookExpo America 2009: Study Calls E-book Piracy ‘Overstated’
While digital piracy “does effect some niches,” its threat to the sale of paid book content is generally “overstated,” according to an ongoing study of digital piracy that uses titles from O’Reilly Media and Random House.
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BookExpo America 2009: The Big Man and Steven Tyler Set the Tune for the Show
Clarence Clemons of E Street Band fame and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler talked about their lives and upcoming books at the BEA keynote Thursday. Tyler admitted he wasn't sure when the book, set for fall, may actually appear, but he is working on it.
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BookExpo America 2009: ABA Day of Education Highlights Ties That Bind
At the ABA Day of Education Thursday, attendees heard various ways they can stay competitive in the fast-changing retail environment. Lisa Scottoline, James Patterson, Jon Meacham and Sherman Alexie were among the speakers.
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BookExpo America 2009: Memoir, Romance and Graphic Memoir Get Pushed at Buzz Panel
At the close of the opening day of BEA, in a packed, windowless conference room off the show floor, Granta acting editor John Freeman emceed the Editors' Buzz panel.
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BookExpo America 2009: Facebook to Facebook Meeting
Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO of LivingSocial, the online social discovery and cataloging utility he founded two years ago, stressed to an audience of 100 BEA attendees Thursday morning the power of social media to efficiently and effectively promote books and authors.
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BookExpo America 2009: Reed Plans ‘Smaller, Better’ BEA
Reed Exhibitions held an unusual pre-show press conference to offer updates on attendance, new events and the size of this year's BEA.
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BookExpo America 2009: Nash and Felman’s Open House
The ideal publisher in the age of e-community? The e-community itself.
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BookExpo America 2009: Tina, Harry & the CEOs
Tina Brown, founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, was already losing her voice as she began moderating a CEO roundtable discussion at BEA Thursday afternoon with HarperCollins’s Brian Murray, Simon & Schuster’s Carolyn Reidy, Macmillan’s John Sargent and Perseus’s David Steinberger. Forty minutes into the discussion, Brown’s voice reduced to a whisper, her husband, journalist Harry Evans, took over, seamlessly picking up where Brown left off.
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BookExpo America 2009: When to Give It Away
Peter Balis, director of online sales at Wiley, and Brent Lewis, v-p for digital and Internet at Harlequin, shed light on how their companies have given away content as a way of generating revenue and increasing visibility for their brands.
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BookExpo America 2009: Book Sales Rose 1% in 2008, BISG Says
Book sales increased 1.0% in 2008, according to BISG Trends 2009, although the trade segments were off. A gain of 1.8% is predicted for this year.
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BookExpo America 2009: Conroy to Miss the Show
Pat Conroy, who was scheduled to join John Irving Friday on the 10:30 Literary Lions panel and was also to be a speaker at Saturday’s Author Luncheon, will not be making the trip to New York.
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BookExpo America 2009: U.K., U.S. Publishers Associations Tout Service to Fight Piracy
At the opening day’s second session on digital piracy, representatives from the U.K.-based Publishers Association (PA) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) demonstrated a new online tool for publishers of all sizes to generate and send takedown notices to sites suspected of infringement.
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BookExpo America 2009: Alyson Celebrates at BEA
LGBT publishing will be well-represented at BEA. The 21st annual Lambda Literary Awards will take place tonight, and tomorrow there will be a private party for 150 LGBT writers, booksellers and journalists. On Saturday, Alyson Books is inviting booksellers and the press to celebrate the appointment of Don Weise as publisher at The Gates in Chelsea.
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BookExpo America 2009: Perseus Unveils 'Book: The Sequel' Timeline
The publisher plans to produce a book on the BEA show floor.
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BookExpo America 2009: HarperCollins Featuring e-Galleys at BEA
HarperCollins is giving out e-galleys for 14 adult titles, nine children's titles and an audiobook in addition to seven print galleys.
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BookExpo America 2009: Despite No-Shows, Many Comics, Graphic Novels at BEA
This year BEA will have fewer attendees, fewer galleys and reduced booth space for many giant publishers, but graphic novel publishers will still be there.
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BookExpo America 2009: Local Cookbook Authors Dish On Where to Eat at BEA
After a long day at the Javits Center, unwinding with a nice meal is just what many convention-goers need. We talked to New Yorkers with cookbooks and books about food out this year to get their picks. There's plenty to chose from, but if all else fails, follow the advice of former food critic William Grimes: “Do not despise food from street carts.
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BookExpo America 2009: Pizza, Boigahs, and Bangers in the Mouth -- A Guide to Eating Your Heart Out in New York
We admit it: living in New York City makes you a food snob, but not in the sense you think. We don't want to sup three times a week at three-star Michelin enterprises that cost us a kidney or worse. We want value for money; red-carpet treatments for editor and librarian budgets. Most of the restaurants listed below serve quality dinner entrees for under $20.
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BookExpo America 2009: Library Journal's Guide to BEA 2009's Galley Giveaways
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