With an industry becomingmore comortable withe-books, and the recessionno longer such an issue, anupbeat tenor returned tothe aisles or the kicko o BEA 2011. Since many hadalready attended panelsand sessions over the pastew days, the lines or badges were reasonableand the Javits layout amil-iar. There were still linger-ing complaints about air-conditioning, Wi-Fi, andconstruction inside Javits, but overwhelmingly bookpublishing proessionalsthought BEA got o to agreat start. The consensuswas that traic was strongand that excitement aboute-books buoyed the mood.Ben White, a sales rep orMacmillan, said he thoughtthis year’s show was higherenergy than last year’s andthat the interest in e-booksand new technology has brought “more buzz aroundthe industry.” AlthoughMacmillan’s biggest book o the all, Jerey Eugenides’smuch anticipated novel,
The Marriage Plot
, was notavailable—White said gal-leys are not quite ready—itdidn’t decrease traicaround the FSG booth inthe Macmillan aisle.Several publishing olkscommented that the book-sellers they encounteredwere upbeat i “not ebul-lient,” as Little, Brown pub-lisher Michael Pietsch putit, and the booksellersseemed happy to be in NewYork. “I’m surrounded byjust the people I want to besurrounded by. Everyonehas a sense o connectionwith what they do,” saidValerie Lewis, co-owner o Hicklebee’s Children’sBooks in San Jose, Cali.Another bookseller,Jennier Seigle, who worksat Borders in York, Pa.,noted that although hertrip to BEA will not aecther buying decisions, sheappreciated the chance tomeet authors, since she canthen pass along “what theysaid about their book.”Karen Walsh at HoughtonMilin Harcourt, who was“pleasantly surprised” byirst-day attendance, saidshe’s taken more book-seller appointments aboutauthor events this yearover last year, which sheound encouraging.Booksellers move “a lot o books and tie them in withschool visits,” she added.This was also the irst yearshe noticed an immediateeect rom the speed dat-ing panel in terms o galleyrequests in the booth.Pietsch, who had sungthe praises o ChadHarbach’s
The Art of Fielding
at Monday ater-noon’s Editors Buzz Panel,said he was particularlyexcited to see how manywomen had shown up to gettheir galley signed by the
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By Rachel DeahlBy Judith Rosen
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irst-time author, given thatthe book is, at least on thesurace, about baseball.Noting that Hachette ishaving a particularly goodrun on the bestseller lists atthe moment—among oth-ers there is Tina Fey’s
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Teicher in Town Hall
American BooksellersAssociation CEO OrenTeicher broke with traditionat this year’s annual meet-ing. Rather than report onassociation activities duringthe past year, he addressedthe elephant in the JavitsCenter, e-books and the tur-moil that bricks-and-mortar booksellers are eeling. “As Ihardly need to remindeveryone here, these are notnormal times in the book business. We are livingthrough a period o unprece-dented change and stagger-ing challenges. It can no lon-ger be business as usual,” hesaid.Teicher noted that theslide in the number o indie bookstores has halted, withmore than 400 new storesopening since 2005, and that bricks-and-mortar book-stores remain the essentialshowroom or ensuring thesale o a broad spectrum o books. Although e-bookshave reached a tipping pointand outsold other ormatsor the irst time in February,“ABA in no way believes thatprint books are going away,”he said. “Nothing canreplace the physical book.”But things must change,said Teicher, noting thatindustry practices go backmore than hal a century,predating
I Love Lucy
.Reerring to ongoing discus-sions with publishers, he saidthat the ABA is making prog-ress in working together tocreate a new, sustainable business model. As a chillingreminder o what’s at stake,he cited statistics ater digi-talization in the music indus-try, which has seen a 64%drop in sales rom its peakyear in 2000, and much o that loss is due to the closingo physical stores.The bookstore’s role asshowroom remains vital,although the scope hasshited outside the store’sphysical walls to include sta
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Exhibit Hall
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International Rights & Business Center
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Big Ideas at BEA Conference (17 panels) beginning with “TheThree R’s of Google eBooks: Reading, Regions and Retailing” (9–10:30a.m., room 1E02) and ending with “Emerging Opportunities in theNew Arab World: Perspectives for Publishers and Distributors” (3:30–4:30 p.m., room 1E17). Other panels include “The Report of My DeathWas Exaggerated”—The Printed Word” (11 a.m.–noon, room 1E15);“Making the Transition from Publishing to Packaging,” presented byABPA (3:30–4:30 p.m., room 1E14); and “Book Reviews Online,” spon-sored by the National Book Critics Circle (3:30–4:30 p.m., room 1E15)
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Insight Changes (18 events) beginning with YA buzz authorMichelle Hodkin being interviewed by Kristi Diehm, blogger forSongSiren.com (10 a.m., Midtown Stage) and ending with “The Edu-cation Debate” with author Steve Perry and Joel Klein, former NewYork City schools chancellor (4 p.m., Uptown Stage). “My New Ameri-can Life: Granta’s Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists,” “PauloCoelho in Conversation,” and “The Cartoonists” are among the otherevents today.
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