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BEA 2009: A Different Look For a Difficult Time
The exhibit floor at this year's BookExpo America will look different from the hall at the 2008 BEA in Los Angeles and even from 2007, when the event was last held at New York's Javits Center. That is not necessarily a bad thing, according to the show's general manager, Lance Fensterman. “It will be a more concentrated show,” Fensterman said.
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BookExpo America 2009: Around the BEA Booths: I - L
IBID Develops and supports POS and inventory control software for booksellers. Featured: IBIDie software, including enhanced special order module and new customer RFM sales analysis module. Booth: 3866. IBISKOS ULIVERI Featured: La terra del poeta by Marco Lando. Booth: 3622. IDEALS PUBLICATIONS/GUIDEPOSTSBOOKS Featured from GuidepostsBooks: Fat Chance by Julie Hadden; Because I Said So by Dawn...
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BookExpo America 2009: Around the BEA Booths: S
SAFE GOODS/NEW CENTURY PUBLISHERS Featured: Flying Above the Glass Ceiling by Nina Anderson; The Vertical System by Albert Benoist; Prevent Cancer, Strokes, Heart Attacks and Other Deadly Killers! by Vijaya Nair, M.D.; According to the Angels by Darcy Cardarelli; Lower Blood Pressure Without Drugs by Roger Mason.
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Why Not Change? BEA in 2009
What a difference a year makes! Last May, the Dow was well over 13,000; the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were squabbling over unseated delegates, and Sarah Palin was a nobody. In publishing, 39-year-old Markus Dohle was about to take the reins at Random House, Kindle was a curiosity and Twitter was the nobody.
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There for the Taking: Standout Galleys at BEA
While galleys might not be piled to the ceiling at BEA this year, many publishers are still bringing them in good quantities, especially in connection with those award-winning authors whose names roll off our tongues. From publishers, editors and publicists, we've collected the standouts and some of the whys and hows.
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L.A. Times Book Prizes Announced
The Los Angeles Times presented its 29th annual book prizes on Friday night, on the eve of its annual Festival of Books.
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USC Panel Kicks Off L.A. Times Book Festival
A panel discussion at USC Thursday night focused on the changes the publishing industry is experiencing.
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'The Hypnotist' Becomes One of the Fair's Big Books
While London saw a number of big book deals, one of the biggest involved the thriller, The Hypnotist. The title, which has yet to sell in the U.S., was at the center of a heated auction in the U.K. involving some of the country's leading crime publishers.
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A Quieter But Productive London Book Fair
For a fair that was predicted by many to be quieter than years past, the London Book Fair has been busy by many accounts. “Overall attendance may not be that great, but the quality of the attendance has been phenomenal,” said Frank Daniels, chief commercial officer of Ingram Digital. “People are very focused,” he told PW, and those who did show up “came to do business.”
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Willen Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt senior editor Drenka Willen was in London to accept the sixth annual lifetime achievement award for international publishing.
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Using SKYPE, Wiley Holds Virtual Bookstore Talk
Combining technology and pop culture, John Wiley’s events planners found an inventive way to upgrade the traditional author bookstore appearance
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British Publishers Try to Find the Money in E-books
A standing room only crowd jammed into the Cromwell Room at Earls Court mid-morning on day two of the London Book Fair, hoping to learn the answer to what moderator Torin Douglas called “the $64,000 question: where’s the money” in e-books?
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Penguin Breakfast Explains Company's Global Outlook
At Penguin UK’s headquarters at 80 Strand this morning, chairman and CEO John Makinson presented a group of journalists with an overview of the company’s global business, offering commentary and observations from five of its international divisions. The big picture: Penguin is reaching far and wide, especially into developing countries.
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At London Book Fair, Panel Says Two-Year British E-Textbook Study is Myth-Shattering
Caren Milloy, director of e-books for JISC, said the two-year effort was largest e-book study ever conducted. It garnered some 48,000 survey responses, as well as analysis of raw server logs at 127 U.K. participating universities, all bolstered by focus groups.
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Sen Provides Long View of India’s Relationship with Books
At the London Book Fair's Chairman's Breakfast, Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate, talked about India's history of publishing and its current place in publishing.
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At London Book Fair, E-books on the Outside, But Looking In
At the London Book Fair, the Digital Zone and Theatre, a 23-seat area on the edge of the show floor, drew overflowing crowds.
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LBF Panel Compares U.S. and U.K. Consumer Book Buying Habits
Among the chief observations made at this morning’s panel on the “special relationship” between U.S. and British consumer book markets were that the British are at least three years behind Americans in adapting e-books, and that American readers are much more interested in romance while the majority of British readers skew toward literary fiction.
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London Book Fair Opens, Attendees Optimistic
The 2009 London Book Fair opened this morning with a long line of attendees wrapped around Earls Court in unusually bright sunshine. It was an auspicious start to the fair, which was predicted by many to be quieter this year but by anecdotal accounts at least appears to be fairly busy.
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Children’s Book Week Goes Digital
The Children’s Book Council turns to the Web to promote this year’s Children’s Book Week, which will take place May 11—17. Here are a few highlights of its virtual campaign, as well as information on some of the planned Children’s Book Week events.
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