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ABC Announces BEA Events
The Association of Booksellers for Children has released its schedule of programs for BookExpo America. Just confirmed are the speakers at The ABC Not-a-Dinner and (Mostly) Silent Auction on Friday, May 29. Shannon Hale (Forest Born) will host the keynote program, after which Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson (The Day of the Pelican) and Mike Lupica (Million Dollar Throw) will speak.
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Pre-BEA Listing
As a service to booksellers and others attending BookExpo America 2009 in New York City, May 28—May 31, Publishers Weekly will provide an annotated listing of exhibitors in our April 27 issue. To ensure coverage of your company's books and/or products, please coordinate with all divisions, imprints, subsidiaries and distribution clients, including children's.
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Spring Book Festivals 2009: The Shows Do Go On
What recession? Judging from the roster of returning—as well as newly established—spring book festivals, the commitment to hold these annual events celebrating authors, books, literacy and local library systems is still strong in the face of our incessant economic drama.
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TOC: The Digital Future Is Confusing and Inspirational
Book publishing at the TOC serves as both hero and goat—the unlimited potential of unleashed digital content sadly suppressed by the industry’s tentative response to the evolving digital marketplace.
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TOC Conference: Using Social Media to Build Book Audiences
An afernoon panel at TOC looked at ways social networks and publishers can work together.
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What’s BEA’s Mission?
I read your article on the BEA and BEC (Oct. 6). Here’s my take: I have been a book rep for 33+ years (and was a bookseller for a couple of years before that). I’ve represented major New York publishers, regional Northwest publishers, a regional wholesaler and currently I am a commission rep.
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Which Way for BEA, BEC?
As the international publishing community prepares to gather at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the North American publishing industry is evaluating the future direction of the continent's two major trade fairs, BookExpo America and BookExpo Canada. The effectiveness of BEC has been in question for some time, ever since Indigo came to dominate Canadian bookselling, while the examination of BEA ...
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BEA By the Numbers
28,494: Total number of registrants in Los Angeles for BEA 2008 36,112: Total number of registrants in New York for BEA 2007 2,462: Number of miles between New York and Los Angeles 27,143: Total number of registrants at BEA 2003, the last time the show was held in Los Angeles 5,539: Number of book buyers at BEA 2008 8,102: Number of book buyers at BEA 2007 6,684: Number of book buyers at BEA 20...
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Live from BEA, Sunday, June 1
PW's live coverage from BookExpo America 2008
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Live From BEA, Saturday, May 31
PW's live coverage of BEA 2008 in Los Angeles: Updated 8:00pm
Big Fall Books; An Early Morning Lovefest for Comics; A Strike at BEA; Big Read Update; ABA Town Hall Meeting; Bezos on Kindle; Going Green; Authors and Their Online Communities; Mellow Mood as Show Opens; Take My Manuscript to Hollywood...Please; Obituary: Leda Liounis; A Documentary about Indie Booksellers -

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'...



