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 […]
Convention Lunch 3, Sunday, May 5
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 […]
Convention Lunch 2, Saturday, May 4
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 […]
Convention Lunch 1, Friday, May 3
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 Welcome to the Show For about ten minutes tomorrow morning that will be Philippe Petit walking the high wire above the lobby of Javits (promoting his FSG book about his famous climb between the two towers of the World Trade Center), but the rest of the show it might as well be organizer Greg Topalian navigating the slender thread. Earlier this week the […]
Lunch for Thursday, May 2
Pre-BEA Deals Outgoing IBM head Louis Gerstner tells how he turned the company around (and he’s writing it himself), Simon Singh’s latest, A new Zoetrope collection, a look inside the American Catholic Church, two books form a Peabody and Emmy award-winning Univision anchor, the first book buy for Hilary Swank’s new production company, a DeForest Kelley bio, a big first fiction buy, a racy book from a retired teacher on sex after 65, and more live during BEA — all available and searchable at PublishersMarketplace.com, with more live during the day. Register here to view the deals, search our 2,000+ […]
Lunch for Wednesday, May 1
New Deals The latest includes a bestselling author who debunks the mathematics of the stock market, a sometimes NPR commentator on a year of teaching in a progressive school, the first Robert Blake book (see below for a potential second), a crash deal for an Australian import, a new romance fiction discovery, and more — all available and searchable at PublishersMarketplace.com, with more live during the day. Plus, now Marketplace 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 […]