Start packing! And don’t forget the sunscreen since we’ll all be heading west to Cally in just a couple of months. The SpierNY BEA blog is getting warmed up to go…we’ll be posting periodically with the countdown to BEA.
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62 Days Till BEA-L.A.!
Make mine a double, lite, no whip
Bye-bye publisher? Bye-bye bookstore? Just this week at the New York Public Library’s Science, Business, and Industry Library, On Demand Books unveiled the first Espresso Book Machine. With the “EBM,” books can be printed and bound within minutes. This summer in libraries across America, users will have the ability to print free copies of public […]
BEA REFLUX
BEA is already a distant echo at Javitz. Those boxes you shipped back to yourself won’t show up until July at least, if at all. Time to focus on the Winter 2008 list, and what you’re going to do with your summer half-day Fridays…while you’re contemplating, here are some reflections on the show from various […]
Gimme a “B”!
BookExpoAmerica is a massive trade show that takes thousands of hours to prepare for, thousands of bodies to orchestrate, focused on the goal of creating a 3-day forum that consists of intensive promotion, marketing, chitchat, networking, shmoozing, and celebration. It’s a gigantic book industry pep rally. And while there’s no bonfire at the end of […]
Russell Simmons in the house
For as many book publishers that are here at BEA, there are at least triple the number of fans of the authors and books they are promoting. I met Kasey outside of the Penguin Group booth who was waiting in line to meet Russell Simmons, and to get a signed copy of his new book, […]
Goin’ back to CAMP
Jessica Wiener, Marketing Director for Hyperion books, mentioned how someone approached her in the booth holding in his hands an ad that he tore out of this week’s issue of New York magazine. The ad was for CABIN PRESSURE, the book by Josh Wolk that just landed in stores this week. Josh will be in […]
Frank McCourt headlines at Webster Hall NYC
Yes, that’s the Frank McCourt of Angela’s Ashes fame, playin harmonica and jammin with the guys from the Rockbottom Remainders!
It was only minutes before when colleagues and I were mingling the literati at the New Yorker party, at Chinatown Brasserie. From the sublime to the…well…passionate? Stephen King, Amy Tan, Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Dave’s brother, […]
The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta, Academy-award nominee, and author of the bestselling, page-to-screen title Little Children, signed galleys of his forthcoming novel The Abstinence Teacher for well over an hour. A cue of fans stretched well beyond the confines of the St. Martin’s booth, spanning the Hachette entranceway next door. Here’s a sneak peak inside his new novel.
Lost your VOICE yet at BEA?
No worries…you can find it again if you visit the Hyperion booth. Publisher Ellen Archer was there today and gave me a couple of minutes of her time to talk about the success of the new imprint VOICE. The title The Feminine Mistake, will be the first of many books published expressly for women ages […]
Authors, celebs galore on the floor!
Harlan Coben, Mayor Koch, Laura Moriarty, LL Cool J, Dr. Ruth, and even Elton John. The booths are packed, the temperature is rising, and the low buzz that started the day is now a loud roar…BEA is in full swing.