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2010 Adult Author Breakfast

The 2010 BEA Adult Author Breakfast featured Condoleezza Rice, author of Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family; John Grisham, title TK; and Mary Roach, author of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.

Jon Stewart, author (along with the writers of The Daily Show) of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race was the Master of Ceremonies.

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2010 ABA Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon

This podcast episode features footage from this year’s annual ABA Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon, a highlight of BookExpo America exclusively for ABA member booksellers.

All seven winners of the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards attended, as did many of this year’s Honor Award recipients and other handselling favorites.

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2010 BEA Children’s Author Breakfast

Presented in cooperation with the Children’s Booksellers and Publishers Committee [A cooperative committee of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), and the Children's Book Council (CBC)] this opening-day breakfast featured Cory Doctorow, author of For the Win; Mitali Perkins, author of Bamboo People; and Richard Peck, author of Three Quarters Dead. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and author of Helping Hand Books: Emily’s First Day at School served as the Master of Ceremonies.

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2010 BEA Editors Buzz

BEA’s original and ultimate tastemaking event. Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange provides you with an editor’s perspective on six of the Fall’s biggest potential breakout releases.

The 2010 BEA Editors Buzz panel featured Chuck Adams, Executive Editor, Algonquin with Jonathan Evison’s West of Here; Susanna Porter, Executive Editor, Ballantine with Anne Fortier’s Juliet: A Novel; Mitzi Angel, Publisher, FSG with Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science; Judy Clain, Executive Editor, Little, Brown & Co. with Emma Donoghue’s Room; Nan Graham, Editor-in-Chief, Scribner with Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer; and Cary Goldstein, Assoc. Publisher, Twelve with Benjamin Hale’s The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore.

This event was hosted by John Freeman, American Editor, Granta.

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2010 ABA and BEA CEO Panel: The Value Of The Book

The BookExpo America 2010 Opening Plenary session, “The Value of the Book,” stemmed from an Op-Ed piece that appeared in The New York Times (January 2, 2010) by Jonathan Galassi, President of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, titled There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen.

Mr. Galassi moderated the panel, which included Bob Miller, Group Publisher, Workman; Esther Newberg, Executive Vice President, International Creative Management (ICM); Skip Prichard, Chief Executive Officer, Ingram; David Shanks, Chief Executive Officer, Penguin Group (USA); Oren Teicher, Chief Executive Officer, American Booksellers Association (ABA); and Scott Turow, Author, Incoming President, Authors Guild.

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2010 BEA Young Adult Editors Buzz

Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange will provide you with an editor’s perspective on some of the Fall’s new YA discoveries and potential breakouts.

Jack Martin, Asst. Dir., Public Programs and Lifelong Learning, New York Public Library was the program chair, and was joined on stage by: Julie Strauss-Gabel, Associate Publisher, Dutton Children’s Books with Ally Condie’s Matched; Jennifer Weis, Executive Editor, St. Marin’s Press with Rebecca Maizel’s Infinite Days; Cindy Eagan, Editorial Dir., Poppy with Kody Keplinger’s The Duff; Farrin Jacobs, Executive Editor, Harper Teen with Sophie Jordan’s Firelight; and Arthur Levine, VP & Editorial Dir., Arthur A. Levine Books with Erin Bow’s Plain Kate.

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