Here’s the best promotional swag from BEA
If you’ve been slowly wrecking your immune system at the Javits Center this week for #BEA15, it’s old news that publishers are going all-out promotionwise. With enough totes to fill… Read more »
BookCon is carefully considering your feedback about whether everyone everywhere should be so, so white
I owe the organizers of BookCon an apology. Last week I discussed their problems with diversity on their panels this year. But I jumped the gun. I got impatient. Diversity… Read more »
Wear shades to BookCon, it’ll be blindingly white in there
All of the thirty-one announced guest speakers at the newly rebranded BookCon portion of this year’s Book Expo America are very white. Even the cat. Even the goddamned cat is… Read more »
Won’t someone think of the BEA orphans?
With Book Expo America over for another year, booksellers from across the nation have headed back to sweep accumulated tumbleweed out of their stores, publishers have returned to their jewel-encrusted… Read more »
Liars from across the nation descend on New York City
The biggest convention in the lie industry is taking place again in New York this week. Lie publicists, marketers, editors, peddlers of lies, and of course the tireless liars themselves have arrived… Read more »
First Publishing Hackathon to be held in NYC and judged at BEA
Hackathons have become common in the tech industry as a way to bring bursts of creative and programming energy to solve a problem in a short amount of time. According… Read more »