The fun of the fair: Angela Crocombe visits BookExpo America
Readings bookseller Angela Crocombe visited this year’s BookExpo America courtesy of the Readings Scholarship. She writes that realistic teen fiction, a new US school curriculum and digital subscription models were...
Next Big Book wins Book Expo Startup Challenge
US-based start-up Next Big Book has won the inaugural Book Expo Startup Challenge at Book Expo America, reports Digital Book World. One of 18 start-ups that competed for the $10,000...
BookExpo America 2015 to host China at Global Market Forum
BookExpo America (BEA) has announced that it will host China at its Global Market Forum in 2015. A delegation of 500 Chinese professionals from over 100 publishing companies and around...
Retailers to sell to consumers at BEA
Book Expo America (BEA) events director Steve Rosato has announced that the book fair will again host consumers for the final day of the event in 2013, however Publishers Weekly...
Discovery and the art of bookselling
Australian author and literary agent Virginia Lloyd travelled to Book Expo America last month, where everyone was talking about ‘the problem of discovery’. The more some things change in book...
Book Expo America 2010: ‘a historic moment’
Arcade Publishing’s Dale Campisi and Michael Brady report from this year’s Book Expo America:After a certain Icelandic volcano eruption kept many publishers away from the London Book Fair it was...
BEA: bookseller attendance down 10-15%
Derek Dryden, owner of Better Read Than Dead, reports on this year's Book Expo America: ‘Book Expo America closed in New York on Sunday after an invigorating three days focusing on...
BEA ‘one of the best ever’
Brendan Gullifer reports:Organisers of Book Expo America (BEA) 2007 are hailing it as one of their best events ever.Despite New York sweltering in 30-plus degree heat and high humidity, early...
Booksense award for Zusak
Marcus Zusak has picked up another award in the US: the membership of the American Booksellers Association has voted The Book Thief (Picador) its favourite book of the past year...
New BEA website
Book Expo America (BEA) has launched a new website at http://www.bookexpoamerica.com, designed to be ‘a more effective, year-round tool in building relationships,' according to event director Lance Festerman.Many new features...
BEA
This year’s Book Expo America (BEA) was held last week in Washington, DC. Reports in the US trade press indicate that the expo was generally well-received and well-attended. One qualm...