BEA has issued an advisory on procedures for gaining entrance to Tuesday night’s opening “keynote” interview with Barbra Streisand. Tickets will be distributed through an Opening Night Keynote Ticket Counter in the main convention registration area, and the window will open the day before, Monday, May 24 from 1 to 5, and then again on Tuesday starting at 7 am. They will let people line up for admission starting at noon on Tuesday and doors for the 6 o’clock session will open at 4. “Everyone with a ticket must be seated by 5:45 p.m. or you may lose your seat.” […]
Archives for May 2010
Bookselling: ABA and ABC Formalize Process of Considering Merger
The ABA and the ABC (Association of Booksellers for Children) have agreed on a process “to generate a formal plan for how ABC will be integrated into ABA should a merger vote be approved.” They hope to put a proposal to a vote of ABC membership in September and, if approved, expect a merger would be implemented at the beginning of 2011.BTW
People, Etc.
In the Vintage/Anchor Books publicity department, Sloane Crosley has been promoted to deputy director of publicity, and Kate Runde moves up to associate director. Additionally, Dan Ozzi will join the department on May 17 as a senior publicist. Most recently he was a publicist at Public Affairs, and previously worked at Oxford University Press. Elsewhere, Kate Lloyd has joined Scribner as publicity manager. She was a senior publicist at the Penguin Group. Barnes & Noble disclosed to the SEC that Len Riggio, who has served as chairman of the board without a contract, has signed an employment agreement (which includes […]
Lost Symbol Paperback Set for October
Anchor has announced their intention to launch a four-million-copy mass upperback edition of Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL on October 19 at $9.99. Doubleday will follow the paperback release with a $35 hardcover edition of THE LOST SYMBOL ILLUSTRATED EDITION on November in a 350,000-copy printing. The publisher says THE LOST SYMBOL has sold over 5.5 million copies in North America to date.
People
Irish author Bree O’Mara was among 103 people who died in the crash of an Afriqiyah Airlines plane that missed the runway in Libya yesterday. She was heading to London to sign a deal for her second novel NIGEL WATSON SUPERHERO, which the Guardian says “would have been her most significant career break.” She was supposed to seal the deal during the London Book Fair but couldn’t fly in due to the ash cloud. Her first novel HOME AFFAIRS “was well received in South Africa” (where she was born).Guardian There will be a memorial service for Nina Bourne, longtime advertising […]
Survey Finds 28 Percent of People Expect to Buy Tablet or eReader in the Next Year
The Boston Consulting Group conducted an extensive online survey of 13,000 people in 14 countries to understand their e-reading desires and came away concluding that the idea device is a low-priced tablet. “Globally, 66 percent of respondents would prefer to buy a multipurpose device, whereas only 24 percent prefer a single-function device, such as the Kindle.” An impressive 28 percent of respondents expect to buy an ereader or tablet in the next year. Just under half of those surveyed intend to buy a tablet within the next three years. And a significant ninety percent of survey participants said they would […]