Book Expo America announced Monday afternoon that the book fair will take place a week earlier than planned, with the conference to run on Wednesday, May 29 and the show floor set to open between Thursday, May 30 and Saturday, June 1. (The Book Blogger Conference will also take place on the 29th, with Saturday, June 1 open to the public.) BEA officials had wanted to move the date for some time “as it is expected to drive down hotel prices by 10% – 20% depending on the property,” and received the “surprise” go-ahead from Javits earlier Monday. There will […]
Book Fairs
BEA Kicks Off with Colbert, Diaz, Kingsolver and Nesbo
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 can find it on many other trade sites, as well as BEA’s own site.) Emcee Stephen Colbert was in classic form, setting the stage for “three of the world’s best authors of books other than mine.” Of his own forthcoming book AMERICA AGAIN: Re-Becoming the […]
AerBook Launches Simple In-Browser Platform to Build eBooks and Apps with Visual Content, and Much More From Publishers Launch
At Monday’s Publishers Launch BEA Conference, in the Publishers Launchpad segment highlighting interesting start-ups, Ron Martinez debuted his company’s Aerbook Maker and Aerbook Cloud Publishing product. They promise to enable the creation and publishing of graphical ebooks and native apps, made right in the browser through drag-and-drop, without any code writing. Martinez said up until now “the cost and complexity has literally made whole categories have to sit out the party,” and Aerbook’s product is designed to make it affordable for publishers to adapt children’s, how-to, travel, educational, photography, or any other graphical content for ebooks and apps all at […]
BEA Is Really Coming
Per tradition, I waited until yesterday to register for BEA, so I’m imagining a number of others are still making arrangements for the convention, which is now less than two weeks away. To help your preparations, Publishing Trends has produced a handy one-page overview of the always-complex schedule and related events, with lots of embedded links. We’ll be sharing our annual party planner next week, so if you want your celebration known, make sure you’ve notified us. Though we often get a lot of last-minute sign-ups, we are running very low on seats for our packed, 16-session Publishers Launch BEA Conference on Monday […]
People, Etc.
At the Penguin Press, Lindsay Whalen has been promoted to editor. Chul R. (Charles) Kim will join the Museum of Modern Art’s department of publications as associate publisher on May 7. He was most recently director of publications and editor in chief at the Cooper-Hewitt. Prior to that he was editorial, publicity, and rights director at Welcome Rain Publishers. Lauren Lavelle has been promoted to assistant publicity manager at Scribner. McNally Jackson Books events coordinator Michele Filgate is leaving on May 3. She will work part-time as a bookseller at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, Shelf Awareness reports, and spend more time on her […]
What Do You Do For A Encore?
Every book fair needs a metaphor, since there is generally very little that rises to the level of big “news.” This year’s is “chill”–from morning temperatures in the 30s this morning (yes, we know it was in the 80s in New York) to a generally subdued outlook following last week’s agency lawsuits, continued negotiations with the European Commission and the prospect of new “neo-agency” contracts to be negotiated over the next few weeks. China is this year’s guest of honor, and in a show of force they are clearly the largest purchaser of booth space as well. The country’s exhibitors […]