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BEA12

Ingram Shows What’s Selling Well At Indie Stores; Codex Addresses the “Discovery Gap”

June 11, 2012
By Michael Cader

Last Monday’s Publishers Launch BEA conference was a packed day of data, insights and news (like the announcement of Tor’s DRM-free ebookstore) worth sharing, and now we have a chance to catch up a bit. At the PLC site we have posted slides from five of the presentations so far, open to all, and we’ll […]

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The Streams of BEA

June 8, 2012
By Michael Cader

BEA show director Steve Rosato reported very preliminary convention attendances numbers on his blog Thursday afternoon in, while arguing that “BEA is what it is.” As he explains, the basic “numbers are a given–the question will only be if we are up a few percent or down a few percent” and the numbers matter less […]

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At BEA, Chabon Describes His Portrait of “Lost Utopia”

June 7, 2012
By Michael Cader

The Thursday morning BEA breakfast featured authors Zadie Smith, J.R. Moehringer and a personal favorite, admitted “total nerd” Michael Chabon. Kirstie Alley hosted, and Jimmy Fallon provided a quick hello and book plug at the beginning. He read from his second volume of wry Thank You Notes, closing with: “Thank you, Kindle, for being able to […]

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Neil Young Shares Glimpses of His “Diary”

June 7, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Wednesday’s lunchtime talk between Patti Smith and Neil Young on the occasion of his upcoming book WAGING HEAVY PEACE — which he characterized as “not quite a memoir. It’s more like a diary and a projection” — was understandably a major event at BEA. As part of the wide-ranging conversation about Young’s career, how technology […]

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Teicher Promises New Indie eBook Solution, Calls Again for Letters to DOJ

June 5, 2012
By Michael Cader

At the American Booksellers Association’s annual meeting at BEA, ABA chief executive Oren Teicher celebrated encouraging membership and indie sales data and reinforced that “I believe this moment in our industry is rich with promise and opportunity.” (In addition to the data we have already reported, Teicher declared that across the network of Indie Commerce […]

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BEA Kicks Off with Colbert, Diaz, Kingsolver and Nesbo

June 5, 2012
By Michael Cader

Book Expo America kicked off Tuesday morning’s author breakfast with attendees lined up early to enter and offered the classic mix of humor, appreciation and creative inspiration. In a new twist, BEA is live streaming the marquee convention events, and the stream actually worked. (We have the player on the PublishersMarketplace.com home page, and you […]

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