For this BEA Street Date episode, we reprise Ted Turner, who spoke at the BEA Sunday Book and Author Breakfast on June 1, 2008 in Los Angeles. Ted’s new book, Call Me Ted, written with Bill Burke (Grand Central, ISBN-10: 0446581895) was just released with a “street date” of November 10, 2008.
This podcast episode features an introduction by John Hodgman, author of More Information Than You Require, who served as Master of Ceremonies for this event.
Art Spiegleman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning artist/illustrator, comic legend, and author of Breakdowns: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! He was also a pioneer in the movement that brought comics into the realm of respected literature.
In this Upfront and Unscripted podcast episode, Spiegleman and Daniel Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, discuss Spiegleman’s incredible career and Breakdowns, the updated version of his 1978 anthology.
To hear more from Spiegelman, check out the 2008 Graphic Novel Author Breakfast.
For more Daniel Pink from BEA 2008, listen in on his conversation with BEA Director Lance Fensterman and his own Upfront and Unscripted session.
“Authors must become brands” is now common wisdom in book publishing. But should authors be in business beyond their books?
The growing trend towards “author-preneurship” reveals a range of opportunities and skills for authors to both gain from and contribute to the business world. Authors are founding startups, producing films, running lecture agencies, consulting with Fortune 500 companies, and entirely-author led services for the industry itself. This underscores not only the desire for an author point of view in business but the benefits of authors taking an entrepreneurial approach to one’s literary career.
In this podcast episode, we explore issues related to “author-preneurship”, including time management, legal issues, working with collaborators and self-identity within and outside of your entrepreneurial endeavors.
Kevin Smokler, Chief Evangelist and Community Director of BookTour moderates this panel. Smokler is joined by Betsy Amster, President of Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises; Mark Sarvas, litblogger and author of Harry Revised; Kim Rickets, founder of Kim Rickets Book Events; and Ron Hogan, founder of Beatrice.
Publishers looking to build web communities are increasingly faced with a choice: build, or buy? To make the right decision, prospective buyers need to consider the time, resources and benefits of acquiring targeted web communities.
In this podcast episode Brian O’Leary, Founder of Magellan Media Consulting Partners, leads publishers through this process. Among other things, he teaches us:
Dr. Ali Rashed Al Nuaimi is a member of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Committee. In this Upfront and Unscripted podcast episode, Dr. Al Nuaimi talks with Ed Nowotka, a book columnist for Bloomberg News and Southern Correspondent for Publishers Weekly.
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, now in its third year, rewards authors in nine different categories. Dr. Al Nuaimi and Nowotka discuss the Book Award, the types of authors who are eligible, and the award’s namesake.
Who is who, and who is doing what in the Chinese publishing market. How and where to find reliable and detailed market information – in English? What can a partnership do that a straight right sale can’t? And why do Chinese want to localize certain books?
Robert Baensch, Principal of Baensch International Group Ltd. and author of The Publishing Industry in China, leads the discussion to answer these questions. Baensch is joined by Ou Yang, Editor-in-Chief of China Publishing Today and Liu Yuan, VP at China Higher Education Press.
LinkedIn has grown to become the professional equivalent of MySpace. Listen to How to Succeed in Publishing Using LinkedIn and find out why LinkedIn has become the number one business networking tool on the Internet.
Ever wanted to know how you can expand your business and network with LinkedIn? Learn how to launch your own LinkedIn profile in a matter of minutes and start connecting with the 19 million professionals already signed up!
The experts on LinkedIn, Eric Butow and Kathy Taylor, authors of the upcoming book How to Succeed in Business Using LinkedIn: Making Connections and Capturing Opportunities on the World’s #1 Business Networking Site show you everything you need to know. Get connected instantly, no matter if you’re a bookseller, publisher, author, or business professional.
Book Buzz…Created by Librarians….FOR librarians!
Hosted by the AAP Trade Libraries Committee, the 2008 BEA Librarian Book Buzz brought together the industry’s top library marketing directors of the nation’s publishing houses. They were each given a chance to talk about the titles they find most inspiring for the upcoming season…and why.
This panel was moderated by Barbara Genco, Director of Collection Development at the Brooklyn Public Library. She was joined by Virginia Stanley, Director of Academic and Library Services at HarperCollins Publishers; Talia Ross, Library Marketing Manager at Holtzbrinck Publishers; Geoff Kloske, VP and Publisher at Riverhead Books; Jen Childs, Director of Library Marketing at Random House; and Michael Rockliff, Director of Library Sales and Marketing at Workman Publishing.
The electrifying national bestseller The Grapes of Wrath was burned and banned in 1939 in Kern County, California—the Joads’ newfound home. “If that book is banned today,” asked the local librarian, “what book will be banned tomorrow?”
Today, about 500 books are formally challenged each year. Why are we still so afraid of the free exchange of ideas? Does government have a legitimate interest in monitoring the flow of information or “safeguarding public morality” in the bookstore, library, or school? What have been the most innovative and successful push-backs used by booksellers and librarians in local communities when challenged?
Nicholas Goldberg, Editor, Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion for the Los Angeles Times leads this rousing session – Obscene in the Extreme: Why Books Still Get Banned.
Goldberg is joined by panelists Chris Finan, President of ABFFE (American Booksellers Foundation for Freedom of Expression) and author of From The Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America; Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., a critically-acclaimed memoir of LA gang life that has been on the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books list; and Rick Wartzman, author of Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
According to BISG, libraries will spend over $1.8 billion on books in 2008. Buying for a library is quite different from buying for retail. No sales reps call on librarians and they do not return books, so they have to select carefully.
In this podcast episode – How Libraries Buy: Librarians Reveal Their Methods for Collection Development – a panel of librarians discuss how they determine the needs of their communities, what sources of information they use to identify titles and how publishers can best reach them.
Moderated by EarlyWord.com founder Nora Rawlinson, this panel included Laura Lent, Collection Development Manager of the San Francisco Public Library; Gail Mueller-Schultz, Principal Librarian in Hennepin County Library’s Collection Management Services Department; and Kathleen Sullivan, Collection Development Coordinator at the Phoenix Public Library.
Clay Shirky is a consultant, NYU adjunct professor and author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organization.
In this Upfront and Unscripted session Shirky is joined by Jeff Howe, a contributing editor to Wired magazine and the author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business. Together, these pioneers not only discuss the digital tools that are available in business today, but also the ways we can use them to move business forward.
To listen to Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: So, What Should We Do Next? session from BEA 2008, please click here.
Next-gen readers are visually assaulted by all forms of media and for the publishing industry to keep up with this pace it requires delivering information that is all things at once: entertaining, informative, credible and visually appealing.
The panelists for this program represent publishing and educational programs that monitor the development of the newest version of literacy.
Moderator John Shableski, Sales Manager at Diamond Book Distributors, was joined by panelists Francoise Mouly, Publisher of Toon Books; Gene Yang, author of American Born Chinese; and Terry Thompson, a teacher,literacy coach, and author of Adventures in Graphica.
The 2008 BEA Editors Buzz panel was re-vamped to deliver the pre-show buzz right before the show-floor opened. This year’s event featured six top editors, each filling us in on their top book picks for this year.
This panel of distinguished editors included Richard Nash, Editorial Director at Counterpoint; Megan Lynch, Senior Editor at Riverhead Books; John Glusman, Executive Editor at Harmony Books; Sarah Knight, Editor at Henry Holt and Co.; Reagan Arthur, Executive Editor at Little, Brown and Co.; and Laurie Chittenden, Executive Editor at William Morrow.
BEA Editors Buzz was moderated by Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief of Publishers Weekly.
Benjamin Mee, a former newspaper columnist, is known for his humorous Do It Yourself column in U.K.’s Guardian Weekend. In 2005 he published a collection of these articles in a volume entitled The Call of DIY: A Toolkit of Practical Wisdom. His new book, We Bought A Zoo, chronicles his family’s experience purchasing and resurrecting a rundown zoo with 200 animals.
In this Upfront and Unscripted podcast episode, Thomas Curwen, Features Editor at Large of the L.A. Times, and Mee look back at this unique experience.
At BEA 2008, Mee also stopped by the Authors Studio to discuss We Bought a Zoo. Listen in!
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