Will New York Read? One of the mysteries we looked at in Convention Lunch was whatever became of the New York Reads program. Before the whining and complaining set in, the initial plan had been to announce the official selection during BEA. Everyone we spoke to points to Reed as the driving force behind the program, but the BEA spokesperson has had no comment or information for us. Today though, buried in an article in the New York Daily News, is an indication of progress — the paper says “organizers have finally settled on James McBride’s THE COLOR OF WATER.” […]

The Latest Deals On top of all the new deals yesterday included in Deal Lunch, more is already starting to come in — the next “nanny”-influenced novel, a topical collection from a controversial cartoonist, a big biography on Ken Kesey, and more — viewable all the time for PublishersMarketplace.com members. Plus, now members can read Lunch on the Web and access our new archive of previous Lunches. Try joining us. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ deal database, and get an optional daily deal e-mail See all the latest deals Coming to a Novel Near You: Life […]

The Latest Deals It should be no big surprise that as we catch up from the last few days there’s a wealth of new deals, including: a film deal for an Orange candidate, a major study of aggression in women, a women’s magazine editor’s frank look at modern marriage, a big first fiction pre-empt for Knopf, a singer-songwriter’s dark memoir, two big fitness books with Eastern twists, a dual biography of Hollywood’s Wassermans, a “shiksa’s” view of her world, a touching story of a quest to adopt a Chinese child, and still more. We’ll pull together a Deal Lunch as […]

The Latest Deals Lots of big new deals, including a six-book look at violence for McSweeney’s Books, Tony Hendra’s memoir, a history of hip, more from Zoetrope, a major book on the American Catholic church, and much more. It might take another day to pull together a Deal Lunch, but PublishersMarketplace.com members can view all the deals anytime. And if you have new ones, there’s still time to make the new wrap-up. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ deal database, and get an optional daily deal e-mail See all the latest deals All About BEA The big […]

Get Convention Lunch from: Scholastic Inc. Booth 302 Read for Information. Read for Fun. Read for Life. Rodale Inc. Booth 3714 Read my lips: E-MAY-US Perseus Books Group Booth 3448 New Millennium Press and Audio Booth 3462 So How Was the Show? Let’s start by acknowledging how ridiculous it is to actually try and “cover” a trade show like BEA. Whether with a huge staff or a hardy band of two like Lunch (our numbers doubled just for the convention with dogged reporting from industry veteran Elisa Petrini), figuring out what 20,000 to 25,000 people did when essentially it was […]

Get Convention Lunch from: Scholastic Inc. Booth 302 Read for Information. Read for Fun. Read for Life. Rodale Inc. Booth 3714 Read my lips: E-MAY-US Perseus Books Group Booth 3448 New Millennium Press and Audio Booth 3462 Enger, Hillenbrand Win Book Sense Awards The Book Sense Book of the Year awards were presented before a lively hall of an estimated 1,000 convention-goers. The adult nonfiction award went to Laura Hillenbrand for SEABISCUIT. Accepting for the author, editor Jon Karp thanked the booksellers for making a success of a book that is “after all, about a dead horse.” Ross King, who […]