Archive for June, 2008
June 30, 2008
Graphic Novel Author Breakfast
The first-ever BEA Graphic Novel Author Breakfast featured some of the most successful authors from the graphic novel world.
This breakfast panel’s discussion focused on the evolution of graphic novel publishing from the underground comics scene through the category’s current explosion into mainstream bookselling. The speakers place their own work in the context of [...]
June 27, 2008
Raising Dangerous Boys and Daring Girls: Children, Literature, and the Green Movement
There was a time when literature inspired children to explore nature and revel in the great outdoors, but a new generation of plugged-in children raised on iPods, Guitar Hero, and the Internet shows little interest in discovering the natural world.
What’s the future of the environmental movement if kids choose the virtual world over the [...]
June 26, 2008
Here Comes Everybody: So, What Should We Do Next?
Clay Shirky is a consultant, NYU adjunct professor and author. He is considered one of the culture’s wisest observers of the transformational power of the new forms of tech-enabled social interaction.
Using his latest release, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations as the platform and the book industry as the fulcrum, [...]
June 26, 2008
Unshelved Book Slam with Michael Rockliff of Workman
Workman’s Michael Rockliff book talks Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum.
Recorded live at BEA 2008.
From the Unshelved Comic Strip Archive:
June 25, 2008
Upfront and Unscripted with David Pakman
David Pakman, a pioneering digital music entrepreneur, is President and CEO of eMusic. eMusic is among the top online distributors of digital music and audiobooks.
In this Upfront and Unscripted podcast episode, Christopher Kenneally, Director of Author and Creator Relations for Copyright Clearance Center, sits down with Pakman to discuss how publishers should adapt to [...]
June 24, 2008
Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd will Drive the Future of Publishing
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor to Wired and author of the new book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.
Howe not only wrote about crowdsourcing—the act of taking a job once performed by an employee and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people over the [...]
June 23, 2008
Unshelved Book Slam with Random House
Jen Childs and Marcia Purcell from Random House, Inc. book talk their season faves to Bill and Gene.
Recorded live at BEA 2008.
From the Unshelved Comic Strip Archive:
June 23, 2008
Sunday Book and Author Breakfast
In 2008, the annual Sunday Book and Author Breakfast featured Ted Turner, author (with Bill Burke) of Call Me Ted; Azar Nafisi, author of Things I’ve Been Silent About: A Memoir of Family; and Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day.
John Hodgman, author of More Information Than You Require served as the Master of [...]
June 20, 2008
What’s Hot, What’s Good, What’s Next in Graphic Novels
In this podcast episode - What’s Hot, What’s Good, What’s Next in Graphic Novels - graphic novel experts ICv2 bring together expert panelists to talk about which graphic novels are the most popular, which are the kind of high quality books that can mean long-term popularity, and what graphic novels are on the horizon that [...]
June 19, 2008
Unshelved Book Slam with Talia Ross of Macmillan Publishers
In the first-ever Unshelved(R) Book Slam, Talia Ross from Macmillan Publishers tells Bill and Gene about her favorite gory novels of the season.
Recorded live at BEA 2008.
From the Unshelved Comic Strip Archive:
June 19, 2008
Upfront and “Unshelved” with Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
Writer Gene Ambaum and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes are the creators of Unshelved(R), the world’s only daily comic strip set in a public library. Barnes and Ambaum recently released Frequently Asked Questions, their sixth collection of Unshelved comic strips.
At BEA 2008, The Unshelved booth was visited by numerous publishers, who were each given [...]
June 18, 2008
Upfront and Unscripted with Daniel Pink
Daniel H. Pink is the author of a trio of provocative books on the changing world of work. His newest work is The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, the first business book for a western audience in the Japanese comic format known as manga.
In this Upfront and Unscripted [...]
June 17, 2008
BISG Presents Book Industry TRENDS 2008
Get your first look at the data driving today’s book industry! This session previews the newest edition of the Book Industry Study Group’s (BISG) flagship research publication Book Industry TRENDS 2008.
The presentation offers details concerning the overall size of the U.S. book market and growth projections for 2008 through 2012. For more than thirty [...]
June 16, 2008
In Memoriam: Tim Russert from BEA 2006
In honor of Tim Russert, we are re-distributing this May 2006 podcast.
Tim was the opening night keynote speaker for BookExpo America when it was in Washington, D.C. At the time, Tim had just released his book, Wisdom of our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons (Random House), and during his speech Tim [...]
