BEA will host Russia as guest of honor in their Global Market Forum program in 2012. Russia holds a similar role at this year’s London Book Fair. BEA organizers say that “Russia plans to have 50 Russian writers plus another 50 editors and publishing executives coming to New York for these events, which will include both a cultural and a professional component.” HarperCollins has officially launched a groupon-esque site, BookPerk.com. They carry–and push out–a series of offers for signed and deluxe editions of books and other “extras” like movie tie-in tickets along with contests (like a “perk of the day” […]
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BlogWorld Pairs with BEA
BlogWorld & New Media Expo, which calls itself “the world’s largest social media conference,” will add a New York show to their schedule by co-locating with Book Expo America. BEA badge holders will have free access to the Blogworld exhibit floor, but will need to purchase conference tickets separately. And BlogWorld attendees–expected to number more than 1,500–will have access to BEA. The new show also anticipates having 100 sponsors/exhibitors and 200 speakers. Their primary conference day will be Tuesday, May 24 (the day BEA’s exhibit floor opens) with two days of exhibits on the May 25 and 26.
BEA Announces First Round of Featured Authors
BEA has announced some of the speakers at this year’s big events. The Tuesday children’s breakfast will feature Brian Selznick, author of Wonderstruck; Sarah Dessen, author of What Happened to Goodbye; and Kevin Henkes, author of Little White Rabbit and Junonia, with Julianne Moore as MC. Wednesday’s breakfast showcases Diane Keaton, author of Then Again; Jefferey Eugenides, author of The Marriage Plot; and Charlaine Harris, author of Dead Reckoning, with Mindy Kaling, author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, as MC. Thursday’s breakfast offers Roger Ebert, author of Life Itself: A Memoir; Anne Enright, author of The Forgotten Waltz; […]
Amazon’s Grandinetti: “This Change Is Happening Faster than You Think”
Amazon’s vp, Kindle Content Russ Grandinetti addressed Digital Book World on Wednesday on “how we together can keep growing this business at a such a termendous rate.” Echoing other speakers from the conference, part of Grandinetti’s focus was on the potentially vast market for English-language ebooks in countries around the world. “I hope publishers think about this as the kind of opportunity that we do,” reminding people that Kindle is “available” in over 100 countries. Grandinetti also declared of the ebook market in general, “however fast you think this change is happening, its probably happening faster than you think.” He […]
DBW: Making Sense of the Next 12 Months
DBW closed out Wednesday afterfoon with a lively panel co-hosted by Mike Shatzkin and Michael Cader discussing, debating, and sometimes agreeing on what changes will affect the publishing industry the most over the next twelve months. Moving beyond generalized statistics on the percentage of overall book sales in digital form, Simon Lipskar of Writers House noted that with publishing comprising a “multiplicity” of businesses, it’s important to make “a more granular level of distinctions between authors and audiences,” since some bestselling authors’ sales are now approaching 50% digital or more, while other authors are selling books at 20% or less. […]
More Highlights From DBW’s First Day
We have lots more DBW coverage from Day 1 over at the PM website. Some of the highlights include: — An outside dose of reality on the future of brick-and-mortar bookselling from Goldman Sachs analyst Matt Fassler and Susquehanna Financial Group’s Marianne Wolk. Fassler was down on B&N’s prospects: “There are no safe investments, but publishers and booksellers are something to avoid” in his assessment, because they don’t control their own destiny. Wolk believes that Amazon makes little to no profit from ebooks as they try to maintain dominant market share, and doesn’t even think it’s a corporate goal to […]