Changing Hands Celebrates 30 Years as a Community Center
In the early '70s, when Gayle Shanks was a teacher at an alternative school in central Phoenix, she and her friends used to gather on the porch at the end of the day and talk about what they were going to do when they "grew up." One day, they came up with the idea of opening their own brand of bookstore -- one where books would become the focus of the community, and they and their books would shape how their customers viewed the world, and, of course, they'd get to read all day….
BookExpo America (BEA) has announced the panelists for this year's "Editor & Bookseller Buzz Forum." The Buzz Forum allows top publishing executives to present the one or two upcoming books they feel most passionate about to a gathering of booksellers, book reviewers, and other media and industry professionals. The forum will take place on Thursday, June 3, at 4:30 p.m.