BEA Galley Roundup

One of the best parts of BEA is getting advance reader copies of books due to hit the shelves in fall or winter.  While Dan Brown’s bestseller in waiting was not among the crop of titles I ran off with, there were some gems in there…
First, one of the books from the Editor’s Buzz panel [...]

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BEA Day 0

Wanted to post a couple of notes from BEA (BookExpo America), which took place this past weekend.  The Expo part runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  BEA holds educational sessions on Thursday, as does the ABA who run their “Day of Education”.  Hence, I call it “Day 0″.
The sessions are pretty hit or miss.  Some are [...]

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BookExpo Day 2

Yeah, I’m totally late with this, but 1. it was an amazing day for me and for Wiley and 2. we don’t have days like that every day and 3. I posted day 1 so I better post day 2.
Where do I begin?  Like I said, we don’t have days like that every day.  Wiley’s [...]

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and so it begins

If the lead up to Book Expo is any indication, this is going to be an interesting couple of days.
The flight was uneventful enough, but due to a strange collection of circumstances, my first stop leaving the airport was not to check into the hotel, but instead to settle into a seat at Hollywood Bowl [...]

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BEA goes social…networking

Mediumatlarge.net has a blog post about BEA’s new social site, MyBEA.  Last year, I kinda got all over everyone at my company because I was one of the few on it.  I don’t think I will be doing that this year.  The site doesn’t seem to me to be very useful, although I like the [...]

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BEA – on the cutting edge

Thanks to Lance, the writer behind Mediumatlarge.net, I got a heads-up to check out the schedule of sessions and presentations going on at BookExpo America.  While it’s not exactly going to rival the slate of a conference that’s all about Web 2.0, it does offer many panel sessions that cover social networking and the latest [...]

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LA Stories

If you work in publishing, odds are you and your company are working on your presence at BookExpo right now.  The main conference in the publishing industry, BookExpo America, aka BEA, takes place the last weekend of May in Los Angeles.  It’s where booksellers meet publishers, authors, agents, media – basically anyone involved in the [...]

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