BookExpoCast

With BookExpo 2007 just completed, we are busy preparing a great sampling of audio podcasts from the show featuring the Special Events, Education Programs, Upfront & Unscripted Interviews, and coverage of the Audio Publishers Association Conference.

Click here for a complete listing of the podcasts that you can expect to hea. We will start releasing an episode a day, starting today!

Also, be on the lookout for the BEA Authors Studio, featuring podcast interviews with more than 80 new and notable authors! We will be posting those podcasts starting next week.

For more than thirty years Ken Burns has directed and produced some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including Baseball, The Civil War, and JAZZ. His latest documentary, The War, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. An accompanying book, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, by Geoffrey C. Ward, includes a forward written by Burns.

Burns will be speaking at the Book and Author Breakfast on Saturday, June 2.

Christopher Kenneally is the Director of Author Relations at Beyond the Book, an information program of the Copyright Clearance Center.

On Thursday, May 31 at 3:00 pm, Kenneally will moderate a panel entitled, “Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity,” which will address the pros and cons of supplementing the sale of a book with free content. Leading the panel discussion will be Chris Anderson, the Editor-in-Chief of WIRED and the author of The Long Tail.

The other BTB session hosted by Kenneally, “A Winning Season? It’s Time to Take Sports-writing Seriously,” is on Friday June 1 at 11:30 am, and will feature Starling Lawrence, VP and Editor-in-Chief of W.W. Norton & Company, David Marannis, Associate Editor of The Washington Post, and Cait Murphy, Sr. Editor of Fortune .

Will Schwalbe is the Sr. VP and Editor-in-Chief of Hyperion Books. Along with David Shipley, Schwalbe is the author of the new book Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. Schwalbe and Shipley will host The 8 Deadly Sins of Email for Book Industry Professionals on Friday, June 1 at 3:00 PM.

Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of WIRED and the author of The Long Tail. In this episode, Anderson gives us a preview of two sessions he’ll be involved with at BEA.

“Giving it Away: Free Lunch or Unrealized Opportunity” will take place on Thursday, May 31 at 3:00. “Giving it Away” addresses the pros and cons of supplementing the sale of a book with free content. During “Upfront & Unscripted: Ken Lombard, President, Starbucks Entertainment,” Anderson and Lombard will discuss how the innovative coffee seller has moved into the realm of book and music retail. This session is scheduled for Friday, June 1 at 1:30 pm.

This bonus podcast is made possible by the Association of American Publishers and contains coverage from their General Annual Meeting, which was held March 6, 2007.

In this episode, Peter L. Bloom, Managing Director of General Atlantic, LLC, puts into perspective the rapid technological changes and the unanticipated effects that they are having on our professional and personal lives. He explains the importance of understanding future trends in the publishing business and the ways they will change our lives in and out of the workplace.

This bonus podcast is made possible by the Association of American Publishers and contains coverage from their General Annual Meeting, which was held March 6, 2007.

In this episode, Thomas C. Rubin, Associate General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation, talks about how recent copyright infringement lawsuits have raised concerns that some companies’ online services and business models systematically infringe the rights of publishers, authors and other content owners. Rubin also describes the ways Microsoft and other online companies are treating this situation, and what it means to the industry.

This bonus podcast is made possible by the Association of American Publishers and contains coverage from their General Annual Meeting, which was held March 6, 2007.

In this episode, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe Systems Incorporated, addresses the challenges publishers face in the new digital age. Chizen outlines the various ways Adobe helps publishers create and deliver engaging and visually rich, personalized content wherever and whenever users want it.

Paulo Coelho is the author of numerous best-selling books, including The Alchemist. He discusses his new book, The Witch of Portobello, as well the personal journey that led him to become a writer. Coelho will speak at the Book and Author Breakfast on Sunday, June 3.

National Book Critics Circle President John Freeman sat down recently with BEA Director Lance Fensterman to talk about the current crisis facing print media book coverage.

This casual conversation covers what is currently happening to print coverage of books and what can be done about it, (panels that the NBCC is helping to create at BEA on this subject and John’s childhood paper route).

The literary world suffered a great loss on April 23 when David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 21 books, was killed in an automobile accident south of San Francisco. Halberstam was 73.

In this podcast, Will Schwalbe, Halberstam’s friend and the editor of his last four books, reflects on his life and the contributions he made to our world.

Nancy Pearl is a legendary librarian in the Seattle area. Now retired from the Seattle Public Library, Pearl speaks and writes about the books the rest of us should be reading. In this podcast, she offers advice and strategy tips for librarians planning to attend BEA.

Talia Ross is the Library Marketing Manager for Holtzbrinck Publishers. In this podcast, Ross outlines her BEA 2007 must-do list. She will be speaking on a variety of panels and invites attending librarians to visit her at booths 3628-3653 during the show.

If you’re a bookseller or librarian planning your first trip to BookExpo America, this podcast is a must-listen. We’ll give you helpful tips on what to bring, how to prepare, and what to wear. Even if you’re a seasoned veteran, take a listen to brush up on your BEA etiquette!