2009 BEA Opening Night Keynote: Steven Tyler
The second of two video podcasts from the BookExpo America 2009 Opening Night Keynote features Steven Tyler. Tyler is the legendary singer and front man for Aerosmith, and author of Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
This event was hosted by Chuck Klosterman, New York Times bestselling author of Downtown Owl; Chuck Klosterman IV; Killing Yourself to Live; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; and Fargo Rock City.
Tyler and Klosterman were also joined on stage by legendary record producer, musician and songwriter Mark Hudson.
2009 BEA Opening Night Keynote: Clarence Clemons
BookExpo America 2009 kicked off in style with the Opening Night Keynote featuring rockers Steven Tyler and Clarence Clemons.
This video podcast features Clemons, famed saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, and author of Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales. He is joined on stage by the book’s co-author Don Reo.
Clemons is interviewed by Chuck Klosterman, author and featured columnist for Esquire, contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and writer for Spin, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Believer, and ESPN.
This event also featured opening remarks from BEA Event Director Lance Fensterman.
Data Crunch: Books and Their Competition for Leisure Time Attention - How Do They Stack Up?
Curl with a good book lately? Competing for the time and attention of today’s consumer is an ever increasing challenge in a world gone made with ever increasing audio, video, gaming and gadget options.
This podcast episode provide insights on consumer media use and book reading and purchase trends from the recently published 2008 Bowker Consumer and Book Production Annual.
Do Publishers Still Hold the Keys to the Kingdom? A Panel of Authors Weigh In
This panel of industry forward-thinkers featured Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price; Tom Standage, Business Editor of The Economist and author of An Edible History of Humanity; and Lev Grossman, Sr. Writer & Book Critic for Time and author of The Magicians.
This event was moderated by Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air.
BEA (Young Adult) Editor’s Buzz
Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange will provide you with the insiders perspective on some of the Fall’s new YA discoveries and potential breakouts.
This panel featured Arthur Levine of Arthur A. Levine Books, with Laini Taylor’s Lips Touch; Ari Lewin of Disney/Hyperion, who discussed Sarwat Chadda’s The Devil’s Kiss; Krista Marino of Delacorte Press for Young Readers, previewing James Dashner’s The Maze Runner; Mark Siegel of First Second Books, talking about Danica Novgorodoff’s Refresh, Refresh; Liz Szabla of Feiwel & Friends, who discussed Jill S. Alexander’s The Sweetheart of Prosper County; and Tara Weikum of HarperCollins Children’s Books, previewing Adriana Trigiani’s Viola in Reel Life.
This panel was moderated by David Levithan, VP & Editorial Director at Scholastic Trade Publishing.
Authors of Indie Buzz
The editors got their chance, now hear from the authors of the Indie Buzz panel!
Hosted by Heather Shaw, Executive Editor of ForeWord, this panel featured Michael Burke, author of Swan Dive; Michael Greenberg, author of Black Suit, Worn Once; James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc, authors of The Stoneholding: Legacy of the Stone; and Amy Foster, author of When Autumn Leaves.
Maximize Your Sales Potential: Amazon for Small and Mid-Sized Publishers
From Author Stores to Search-Inside-the-Book, Amazon offers a broad variety of innovative and proven tools to help ensure maximum exposure for your titles. Listen in to this podcast episode for a brief tour of these resources and programs, and how they can help you reach your audience.
Author Stages: Stage to Page
This BEA 2009 Author Stage event features two playwrights who have switched gears to writing books.
Ron Hogan of Beatrice.com hosted this event. He was joined by Adam Rapp, author of Ball Peen Hammer and David Rabe, author of Mr. Wellington.
A Strategic Approach for Harnessing the Power of Social Media: A Publisher Roadmap
Social media is no doubt transforming the publishing world, which can summed up by three “S” principles of Segmentation, Scale, and Simplicity.
To take advantage of these new tools, publishers, authors, and marketers need to segment who their audience is, and how and where they engage with social media online. Once niche platforms are identified, whether it’s through Facebook, iPhone or Twitter, content needs to be properly scaled for those mediums to engage with the people who spend hours each day sharing and reviewing their favorite books. Lastly, delivering a simple message through the right vehicles will lead to explosive viral growth among book-lovers, generating increased web traffic, and ultimately move the needle with sales.
In this podcast episode Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO & Co-founder of LivingSocial discusses popular authors who have succeeded in growing a community and fan base they can leverage and engage with online.
Author Stages: Biography
This BEA 2009 Author Stage event brings together a group of authors who have recently penned biographies. William Mann is the author of How To Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood. Terry Teachout wrote Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.
This panel was hosted by Ben Moser of Harper’s Magazine.
Today’s New Media Investments: A Discussion with Softbank Capital’s Eric Hippeau
New and radical innovation has accompanied each recession for the past four decades. And though the financial meltdown is historic in its roiling of hedge and mutual funds, there is still a substantial amount of uninvested money that will be invested soon. Couple this with the impact of new broadband and mobile media applications changing consumer behavior, and publishers are left with a future of media influence uncertainty.
That is, unless you are talking with a major player who is directing investments into new media. Listen in to this discussion between Wired Editor in Chief and FREE author Chris Anderson and Softbank Capital Managing Partner Eric Hippeau as they dig into the detail of what’s hot and where the VC dollars are flowing.
Galeano and the Unofficial History of the World
Eduardo Galeano is a Uruguayan essayist, journalist and historian. His most famous works include Memoria del fuego and Las venas abiertas de América Latina. His books have been translated into over 20 languages.
In this BEA 2009 Author Stage event, Galeano and Lewis Lapham, Editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, discuss his new book, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone.
Author Stages: Gamal Al Ghitani
In this BEA 2009 Author Stage event, Gamal Al Ghitani, the winner of the Sheikh Zayed Award For Literature 2009 and author of the novel Pyramid Texts, discusses his latest novel, The Zafarani Files; the intrigues of an old Cairo quarter, in a parable about political and personal freedoms.
2009 BEA Editor’s Buzz
BEA’s original and ultimate transfer of tastemaking is back! Insightful and passionate, this intimate editorial exchange provides you with the insiders perspective on some of the Fall’s new discoveries and potential breakouts.
Hosted by John Freeman, US Editor of Granta, this panel featured Paul Elie of FSG, who talked about Michael Sandel’s Justice; Deb Futter of Grand Central Publishing, discussing Leila Meacham’s Roses; Alexis Gargagliano of Scribner, who previews Alex Lemon’s Happy; Harriet McDonald of Tor Books, who discusses Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s A Memory of Light; Ben Sevier of Dutton, speaking about Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You; and Robert Weil of WW Norton, who previews David Small’s Stitches.
