BookExpo

BookExpo America has announced that Steve Rosato will be leaving his position as the trade show’s event director for a new venture within the publishing industry.

BookExpo America has announced the titles to be featured at this year’s adult, YA, and middle grade Editors’ Buzz Forums at BookExpo America in Chicago.

The special ABA rate at the Drake Hotel — Hotel ABA for BEA 2016 — is now available to all trade show registrants.

BEA is offering ABA member booksellers who have not attended the trade show in the last two years the opportunity to win one of 60 BEA scholarships to help defray their hotel and travel costs.

Sebastian Junger, Colson Whitehead, and Louise Penny will be featured at the 2016 BEA Adult Book & Author Breakfast, emceed by NPR’s Faith Salie.

Publishers Lunch releases Buzz Books’ spring/summer adult and YA titles; AAUP member presses to launch diversity fellowship; AAP, United Negro College Fund partner for diversity initiative; Chronicle Books to distribute Hardie Grant Books; Eleven publishers sign with IPG, subsidiaries; Nominees announced for National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2016 Edgars; Book tech startups named winners in 1440 Accelerator Program; BEA announces library, children’s, and self-publishing programming

BEA has announced the authors who will speak at the 2016 Children’s Author Breakfast on Friday, May 13, at the McCormick Center in Chicago.

The Drake Hotel on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile — Hotel ABA for BookExpo America 2016 — offers a special rate that is available exclusively to ABA member booksellers until February 16, 2016.

BookCon announces celebrity-studded guest list; HarperOne to publish new digital-first fiction line; 2015 National Outdoor Book Award winners announced; District of Columbia Library Association wins 2015 WNBA Eastman Grant

The Drake Hotel on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile — Hotel ABA for BookExpo America 2016 — offers a special rate that is available exclusively to ABA member booksellers until February 16, 2016.

Publishers exhibiting at BookExpo America 2016 can now submit titles for consideration by show organizers for the BEA Adult Editors’ Buzz, BEA Young Adult Editors’ Buzz, and BEA Middle Grade Editors’ Buzz.

Nobrow Press, a London-based graphic novel publisher,  produces unique, sustainably printed graphic novels, comics, and picture books by illustrators from the U.S., the U.K., and other European countries.

Jay Lansdown, the owner of Constant Reader Bookshop in Sydney, Australia, talks to BTW about his first BookExpo America, this past May.

Post-BEA report points to rising attendance; Publishing industry survey reports $28 billion in revenue in 2014; We Need Diverse Books announces publishing internship grant winners; Additional winners announced at PEN Literary Awards Ceremony; Simon & Schuster to distribute Gallup Press; Bookmasters signs international sales and distribution agreements; Lerner partners with Quarto Library

In his bimonthly letter to members, ABA CEO Oren Teicher reflects on a successful BEA and on important issues still facing the independent bookselling community.