BookExpoCast

A collection of frontline booksellers (those hardworking folks who actually hand-sell books directly to readers) highlight a handful of spring/summer releases they intend to recommend to their customers — and why. Frontliners include Laura Grey from Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor, MI; Jessica Stockton from Labryinth Books in New York, NY; Mark LaFramboise from Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC; Kari Patch from Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, MA; and Stu Hecht of the Book Vault in Connecticut. Sponsored by Pages magazine.

Sarah Weinman, crime-fiction blogger (Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind), publishing blogger (GalleyCat at MediaBistro.com), print journalist and book reviewer for the Baltimore Sun, provides a keen look inside the world of litblogging and book criticism, and provides tips for publishers and authors on how to use litblogs to increase readership.

For the next edition of Beyond the Book, presented at BEA by the nonprofit Copyright Clearance Center, authors Jay Allison (co-author of This I Believe), Martha Simmons (co-editor of Preaching with Sacred Fire: An Anthology of African American Sermons, 1650 to the Present) and Cholene Espinoza (author of Through the Eye of the Storm: A Book Dedicated to Rebuilding What Katrina Washed Away) join host Christopher Kenneally (CCC’s director of author relations) for a discussion of how religion and deeply held personal convictions have shaped our national experience.

Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, provides a summary of his ground-breaking theory on how small markets are becoming the new mass-market and how he has been writing his book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, in public through his blog.

Carly Fiorina, the former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard and author of an upcoming and much-anticipated memoir, tells us how technology is transforming all industries, including publishing. Fiorina also shares her thoughts on how technology has affected her as an author. Plus some tough questions from the audience!

Don Tapscott, the acclaimed management consultant and bestselling author of Digital Capital, discusses how new media and Web 2.0 are transforming the publishing industry, and how all in the industry should embrace and collaborate with these new technologies.