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, […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]