BookExpo America 2009: African Americans, Social Media and Comic Books at BEA By Calvin Reid and Heidi Macdonald - 06/02/2009
This year the African American Program For Book Publishing Professionals offered a slight twist—organizer Clara Villarosa served as her own keynote speaker—while offering panels on social media and on the growth of comics and graphic novels.
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BookExpo America 2009: It’s All About the Teen By Joy Bean - 06/01/2009
On Saturday afternoon during BEA, a group of six young adult specialists gathered for the panel called Teens Read Books—Teens Have Money—There Are a Lot of Teens: How to Get Them Into Your Store. Emily Pardo, former events and marketing coordinator at Books and Books in Miami, Fla., started the panel off by admitting that the best ideas for reaching out to teens usually don’t come from adults, but rather teens themselves.
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Using Thought Leadership Marketing to Build Your Children’s Business By Judith Rosen - 06/01/2009
While the concept of being a “thought leader,” someone who is recognized for innovative ideas, has been around for the past 25 years, molding the concept to children’s retailing is still relatively new. “Thought leadership emphasizes reaching out and sharing your expertise,” explained ABC executive director Kristen McLean, who introduced and moderated a panel on using thought leadership, called "Give It Away to Get It Back."
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BookExpo America 2009 Seen as Productive Show By Jim Milliot - 06/01/2009
With attendance up over Los Angeles, the just-concluded BookExpo America exceeded expectations for many exhibitors. A extremely strong fall list was the talk of the show, and changes implemented by BEA drew positive reviews.
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BookExpo America 2009: The Big Books of the Show By Louisa Ermelino - 05/30/2009
There are so many “big books” being presented at the show this year, so many household name authors in every genre, that it couldn’t be a more exciting time for booksellers and booklovers. With so much uncertainty about the business of publishing and the winds of change in the industry, it’s a good time to focus on what BEA is all about: getting the word out about books.
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BookExpo America 2009: Stupid Things Booksellers & Publishers Do By Judith Rosen - 05/31/2009
“I can’t believe how broken this industry is,” said moderator Praveen Madan, co-owner of The Booksmith in San Francisco, Calif., by way of introduction to Saturday’s panel on the things booksellers and publishers perceive that the other could do to repair the book business.
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BookExpo America 2009: Children’s Highlights for Fall By Diane Roback, with reporting by Joy Bean and John A. Sellers - 05/31/2009
The children’s category is a bright spot in a flat industry these days, and plenty of forthcoming titles were generating buzz on the floor. Candlewick is printing 500,000 copies of Kate DiCamillo’s new novel, 'The Magician’s Elephant,' and she’ll go on a 10-city tour. 'Catching Fire' by Suzanne Collins, the followup to last fall’s 'The Hunger Games,' was a hot “get” at the show; More
BookExpo America 2009: Graphic Paradigm: Comics at BEA by Calvin Reid - 06/02/2009
At a time when publishing is looking for a new paradigm, graphic novels—the visual storytelling paradigm—looked particularly strong at BookExpo America 2009.
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BookExpo America 2009: Indie Buzz Panel -- Big Range By Michael Coffey - 05/30/2009
Harriet Shaw, editor-in-chief of Foreword magazine and moderator of Saturday’s Indie Editors’ Buzz panel, said, “I picked the publishers myself.’ What she selected was an impressive if idiosyncratic array of editors/houses, each of the five with fascinating books that have every chance of selling.
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BookExpo America 2009: Big Name Authors Dazzle Lunch Crowd By Louisa Ermelino - 05/30/2009
Ken Auletta introduced the Saturday Author lunch panel with a few words about his forthcoming book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (Penguin, Nov.). When he interviewed Bill Gates in 1998, Auletta told the audience, he asked him what he worried most about, expecting to hear “Apple” or even “the U.S. government.”
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BookExpo America 2009: Bloggers Draw a Crowd By Heidi MacDonald - 05/30/2009
The book blogging panel, led by HarperCollins's Jennifer Hart, drew a huge crowd of engaged authors, bloggers and publicists as it attempted to “create a more perfect union between bloggers, publishers, booksellers and authors,” according to Hart. More
BookExpo America 2009: IDW Announces Robert Bloch Collection By Heidi MacDonald - 05/30/2009
Continuing its efforts in literary/graphic novel crossovers, IDW Publishing has announced a major licensing agreement with the estate of acclaimed author Robert Bloch. IDW has the rights to develop 100 of Bloch’s short stories for various formats, to be known as the Robert Bloch Collection.
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BookExpo America 2009: Parsing the Good ‘WTF’ Literary Moments from the Bad at First YA Buzz Panel By Rachel Deahl - 05/30/2009
Scholastic’s David Levithan gamely and amusingly ushered in BEA’s first YA Buzz Panel by noting a not-so-lofty goal: to “not do so badly or offend you so much” as to kill the event right out of the gates. The plugs for the six books that followed covered everything from a collection of illustrated novellas to a trilogy-launching, genre-bending sci-fi/ fantasy/thriller.
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BookExpo America 2009: 'The Graveyard Book' Takes Audiobook of the Year By Parul Sehgal - 05/30/2009
With a record number of 1,000 entries and the biggest names in the industry in attendance at Friday night's Audies Awards, top honors went to Neil Gaiman, who walked away with Audiobook of the Year for The Graveyard Book (HarperChildren’s Audio).
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BookExpo America 2009: Author Breakfast Pairs Memoir with Comedy By Lynn Andriani - 05/30/2009
Craig Ferguson, host of The Late Late Show, author of the memoir American on Purpose (HarperCollins, Sept.), and self-titled “illiterate boob” emceed the Author Breakfast on Saturday at the Javits Center’s Special Events Hall, which he jokingly likened to a “café in Paris.”
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BookExpo America 2009: A Downsized Show By Lynn Andriani - 05/30/2009
Amid a global recession, decreasing book sales and industry-wide layoffs, how was day one of BEA ’09? Well, it depends on who you ask. Publicists were typically upbeat (“busy” was their buzzword), while a few heads of houses wondered aloud—and off the record—how much business was actually getting done at the show. And booksellers, especially independents, lamented the decrease in ARC giveaways.
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