The best way to actually “buzz” about books at BEA is by sampling the work itself, and that’s the original reason we created our successful, now year-round Publishers Lunch Buzz Books program two years ago. While we can’t tell you for certain which of the latest group of titles are this year’s The Yellow Birds, The Light Between Oceans, The Orchardist, The Rosie Project, Burial Rites, or The Woman Who Lost Her Soul our track record is clear: Many of the titles excerpted exclusively in Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter are going to populate lists of the best books of the […]
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Weekend Reading: Over 50 BEA Discoveries to Start Now
It’s been rewarding to see readers responding enthusiastically to our new free ebook samplers, now presenting substantial excerpts from over 30 general trade books in Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter, plus for the first time a separate collection of over 20 excerpts in Buzz Books 2014: Young Adult. Twenty seven of the authors featured in the two collections will be appearing at BEA and BookCon later this month, and of course for people not attending the shows our Buzz Books are a great way of sampling many of the big discoveries from home. To download the trade editions for your weekend reading, go to this page for […]
Two Big Books of BEA Buzz
With BEA itself just two weeks away, the real convention business of discovering, sampling and sharing big new “discovery” books for the fall/winter publishing seasons begins today. Our new free ebook Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter presents substantial, pre-publication excerpts from over 30 forthcoming books — including a dozen authors who will be at the convention. We have highly-touted debuts (from Matthew Thomas, Jessie Burton, Katy Simpson Smith, Nayomi Munaweera, Audrey Magee, Judy Chicurel and more); headliners (Neil Patrick Harris, Alan Cumming, Billy Idol, Peter Thiel); serious nonfiction (Morten Storm, Matt Richtel); established authors (Deborah Harkness, Lev Grossman, John Scalzi, Tana French, Michael Faber); […]
Get Organized for BEA
For a proposal I’m working on I’ve been reflecting on some of our failed experiments at PL/PM, and some of the biggest relate to BEA. Trade shows are usually a goldmine for traditional trade media, particularly for harvesting print ads by putting them against canned copy marketed as news. But we’ve always been more interested in creating value than harvesting it, and in providing tools that help people do business better. So for years we’ve tried to supplement the BEA experience in all kinds of ways. Among them, we built a site with editable web pages for every BEA exhibitor […]
BEA Floor Changes for BookCon and More
Book Expo America is officially less than a month away, and while the new layout BEA isn’t changing as dramatically as Frankfurt in 2015, the push to establish a viable consumer/reader event within the BEA umbrella through the repositioned BookCon show will reshape the convention floor in its own way. Throughout BEA’s efforts to make a place for readers and fans while still serving the trade business needs, some exhibitors have welcomed the expansion and others have opposed it. (Indeed, many typical BEA exhibitors — like wholesalers, for example, do not have a place for general readers in their business.) […]