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National Reading Group Month Set for October
For the third year in a row, the Women's National Book Association has designated October as National Reading Group Month. This year’s festivities will include events with authors of books that have been popular with book clubs, in each of the Association's 10 chapter cities: Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Charlotte, N.C.
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GABBS Does Boston
Even before the opening of last weekend’s Great American Bargain Book Show (Aug. 21-22), which moved from Atlanta to Boston’s Hynes Convention Center for the first time, booksellers were primed.
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Frankfurt Book Fair: Random House Cancels Frankfurt Party
In a sign of the economic times, Random House has canceled its famed curtain-raising soiree during the Frankfrut Book Fair.
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Rethinking the Fall Regionals
Many of the same challenges that turned 2009 into a transitional year for BookExpo America—declining ABA membership, a down economy and cost-consciousness on the part of both booksellers and exhibitors—are playing havoc with the approaching fall regional trade shows. Unlike the ABA, however, the fate of the regionals is more closely tied to the success of their shows, which, along w...
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2009 Regional Trade Show Roundup
Getting a handle on social networking and staring down the economic crisis are the two realities that all independent booksellers are facing this year. The trade shows this fall cannot help addressing these concerns, both in their announced educational programs and in the informal networking that makes gathering together in person so meaty.
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Penguin Floats BEA Consumer-Event Concept
A dding a public component to BookExpo America has been one of the most hotly debated topics regarding possible changes to the annual event. BEA officials have discussed it internally and with their customers, and the concept has now received a major boost from Penguin, whose CEO, David Shanks, and president, Susan Petersen Kennedy, have outlined what they see as a viable way to bring book love...
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Kids' Authors Team Up for 'Exquisite Corpse'
Plans are ramping up for the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., which will take place on September 26. For 2009, the Library of Congress and the National Children’s Book and Literary Alliance have teamed up with 18 children’s book authors and illustrators for a special presentation entitled The Exquisite Corpse Adventure, an ongoing story that will be unveiled over the course of a year.
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Susan Shapiro's Book Party Offers Speed Shrinking
Author and journalism professor Susan Shapiro says “shrinks saved my life,” referring to how therapists helped her kick her cigarette and marijuana addictions. So it isn’t surprising that Shapiro decided that the launch party for her new novel, Speed Shrinking, out today from St. Martin’s, would entail guest “therapists” offering quick advice sessions to party guests.
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San Diego Media-Con: One Big Size Fits All
Originally founded as a kind of fan-fest and back-issues swap meet for comic book, science fiction fans and retailers, the just concluded San Diego Comic-Con has grown to become an international platform for popular culture, servicing the fans that love it as well as the artists and publishers that create and distribute it. But with the book industry openly questioning the usefulness of a strictly trade show like BEA, has the San Diego Comic-Con become a possible model for publishing/media conventions?
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San Diego Comic-con 2009: Not Just for Grown-ups
The annual San Diego Comic-Con International ended July 26, leaving 125,000 attendees alternately dazzled and exhausted by the four-and-a-half day marathon of comics, movies, panels, signings and parties. More than ever, the show has become the biggest marketing platform of the year for film and TV as well as comics—including comics material aimed at children and teens.
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"PW,’ BookBrunch Team for Frankfurt Coverage
Publishers Weekly is teaming up with BookBrunch, the London-based online daily newsletter and website, to produce two issues of the Frankfurt Fair Dealer at the Frankfurt Book Fair this fall. The first issue will appear Wednesday, October 14 and the second Friday October 16.
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Scavenger Hunt Set for Twin Cities
It's a year of milestones for four of Minnesota's most prominent literary entities, with Graywolf Press marking its 35th anniversary, the Loft literary center and Milkweed Editions their 30th anniversaries, and Coffee House Press its 25th anniversary, and the four organizations are collaborating with booksellers across the metro area to highlight the richness of the Twin Cities cultural scene b...
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As Romance Booms, Authors and Publishers Invest in Face Time
Despite the weak economy there was a big turnout for this past weekend's Romance Writers of America annual conference. Authors and would-be authors exchanged tips and pitched agents and publishers amid much networking. There were even a number of parties.
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Picture This: Our ALA Photo Essay
With a record number of attendees turning out for the ALA’s annual conference last weekend, there were plenty of photo-ops with children’s book authors. Read on to peruse our ALA photo essay, in which we’ve rounded up some of the highlights of the author appearances, featuring Ashley Bryan, Florence Parry Heide (who celebrated her birthday at the show), Neil Gaiman, Lauren Myracle, Kadir Nelson, Sharon Robinson, Brian Selznick, Lane Smith, Melissa Sweet and many others.
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Smaller Christian Retail Show is All Business
Most attendees gave the 2009 International Christian Retail Show good marks with lots of business being done despite a drop in attendance.
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Thrillerfest 4 Honors Authors
Brad Meltzer, Jeffrey Deaver and David Morrell were among the winners at this year's at the fourth annual International Thriller Writers convention.
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Fancy Food Show Is BEA for Foodies
The best way to describe the Fancy Food Show to book people might be to call it a BEA for food. But that doesn’t do the event justice. The fair, held last week at the Javits Center in New York City, has more exhibitors than Book Expo: about 2,300, compared to BEA’s 1,500. And while BEA exhibitors sometimes give out samples (i.e., books), nearly every exhibitor at the Fancy Food Show gives out samples (i.e., food). BEA may be a feast for the brain, but the Fancy Food Show is a straight-up feast.
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Canadian Booksellers Ready For New Summer Conference
Following the February decision by organizers to cancel BookExpo Canada, the Canadian Booksellers Association didn’t have much time to come up with an alternate event to coincide with its annual general meeting in Toronto in June, which usually took place just before BEC. But according to CBA executive director Susan Dayus, by keeping its summer conference relatively small and not trying ...
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Messe Frankfurt and Frankfurt Book Fair Renew Contract
Frankfurt’s mayor, along with Michael von Zitzewitz of the Frankfurt exhibition grounds, fair director Juergen Boos, and director of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association Prof. Dr. Gottfried Honnefelder jointly announced that the fair will remain in Frankfurt to 2022.
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'PW' Announces National Bookstore Day
Publishers Weekly is inviting booksellers and publishers to participate in the first annual National Bookstore Day on Saturday, November 7, to stimulate in-person visits to retail bookstores. PW will provide marketing and publicity for the event, including promotional materials and online outreach. “We want to celebrate the vibrant culture of bookstores,” publisher Ron Shank said, &...
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