Deal Lunch, and Deals Update I’m still catching up from BEA so Deal Lunch won’t be ready until later this week. In the meantime, as ever, we are logging new deals all the time into PublishersMarketplace, including among the latest: a mystery writer moving houses, at least one BEA advance reader’s copy that sparks a big foreign rights deal, a self-published success that gets a traditional publishing partner, behind enemy lines with Special Forces in Iraq, and lots more. Join us now as a member and besides all the deals you get all our great features (including the “addictive” book […]
Lunch for Tuesday, June 3
Thrillers, Unlikely Heroes, Opening Your Heart, and More There’s lots of new deals to catch up on, including an interesting take on a new kind of heroes of the Revolutionary War (by General Patton’s grandson), John McLean’s new book, a multi-book deal from the bestselling team of Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt, a big commercial fiction sale in the UK and a major deal for a thriller writer, a funny novel about how to figure out who to date, and much more. As usual, deals are available and updated all the time for members of PublishersMarketplace.com — where you get […]
BEA Lunch for Sunday, June 1
The Rumor of the Show — Is It True? The word throughout BEA has been that Bertelsmann is indeed acquiring the AOL Time Warner Book Group, but by Sunday, with little else of note happening, it acquired the nod of certainty from many convention goers. If an announcement is to be made it’s expected tomorrow (June 2), and reportedly the New York Times has been readying the story for the last few days. People Wake Up for Moore as Albright Captivates Fireworks from Saturday’s political lunch still resonated at this morning’s author breakfast, as moderator Walter Isaacson told the audience, […]
BEA Lunch for Saturday, May 31
The Political Debate at the Luncheon Report by Mike Shatzkin The MediaTalk lunch was full of fireworks. Originally conceived as a “fair and balanced” presentation with two on the left, Molly Ivins and Al Franken, facing off against two on the right, Bill O’Reilly and Tucker Carlson, was thrown off-center by Carlson’s absence. Former Democratic Congresswoman and AAP head Patricia Schroeder, who moderated, said, tongue in cheek, that it was perfectly fair and balanced to her. Ivins, whose “BUSHWHACKED” is coming soon from Random House, kicked off the conversation talking about her new tool to analyze the health of the […]
BEA Lunch for Friday, May 30
As Usual, ABA Members Drop; Organization Committed to Educational Efforts At the ABA annual meeting, the membership report went by even more quickly than usual — perhaps because full bookstore members of the organization were down over 9 percent, from 2.097 the year before to 1,908. Provisional members, comprising prospective booksellers, also dropped, from 135 the year before to 90. It’s gotten hard to know, however, if the organization’s membership stats reflect the actuall numbers of booksellers, since as ABA head Avin Domnitz noted, “there are a lot of booksellers who come to this convention and don’t belong to this […]
BEA Lunch for Thursday, May 29
Who Is (And Isn’t) Here After last year’s broadly enthusiastic and well-attended convention, buoyed by the show’s return to New York after a long absence, this year’s BEA can’t help but be quieter. Add to that continued sales problems for retailers and publishers alike, and you have even quieter expectations. It’s no wonder, then, that much of the early focus this time around will be on who is and isn’t attending. So it’s interesting to note that the biggest no-show is none other than BEA Show Manager Greg Topalian, whose wife Andrea is due to deliver their first child (they […]