We're outta here, off to NYC where we will visit with our blogging brethren and provide you with up to the minute live coverage of BEA. What's BEA you ask? The Seattle Times provides your answers ...
Meanwhile, BookExpo America, once called the American Booksellers Association Convention, managed a near-fatal feud between publishers and independent retailers in the mid-1990s, largely over the rise of superstores. It now mirrors the sprawling, contradictory nature of the industry itself.
At BookExpo, blockbusters such as "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" will be hyped alongside literary releases by Umberto Eco and E.L. Doctorow and scholarly works by university presses. On a given day this weekend, one might attend an author luncheon sponsored by independent booksellers, sit in on a discussion about the next generation of editors, then stand in line to meet Wynonna Judd.
Live blogging reports begin late Thursday, but do check in tomorrow morning for Dan Olivas' interview with Luis Urrea, whose book The Hummingbird's Daughter is sure to be part of the BEA buzz ...
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