BookExpo

The 2008 Hotel ABA, The Renaissance Hollywood, is currently booked to capacity for several of the nights for which the American Booksellers Association negotiated a special rate for its bookseller members. ABA is providing booksellers with a list of other accommodation options in Hollywood.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award recipient Thomas L. Friedman will be BookExpo America's 2008 keynote speaker.

The 2008 Hotel ABA, The Renaissance Hollywood, is currently booked to capacity on several nights for which the American Booksellers Association negotiated a special rate of $164 per night for its bookseller members; however, ABA is encouraging booksellers to reserve rooms for the nights that are available and to contact Margaret Nafz at [email protected] to be put on a waiting list for the additional nights.

Bestselling author and Daily Show regular, Lewis Black will headline this year's BookExpo America (BEA) Book Industry Foundation Benefit. BEA Industry Vice President and Show Manager Lance Fensterman made the announcement this week.

Hotel ABA, The Renaissance Hollywood, offering accommodations exclusively for ABA bookstore and provisional members at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles, is close to 90 percent booked. And though rooms are available at the special rate of $164 per night for Thursday, May 29, through checkout on Monday, June 2, Wednesday night, May 28, is already sold out.

Three weeks since the American Booksellers Association announced the opening of reservations for Hotel ABA at BookExpo America 2008 in Los Angeles, more than 60 percent of the available rooms have been reserved. The hotel, The Renaissance Hollywood, offers a special room rate of $164 per night exclusively for ABA bookstore and provisional members, as well as a package of other benefits.

Just two weeks since the American Booksellers Association announced the opening of reservations for the 2008 Hotel ABA at BookExpo America in Los Angeles, almost half of the available rooms have been reserved. The hotel, The Renaissance Hollywood, offers ABA bookstore and provisional members an exclusive room rate of $164, which is substantially lower than other available hotel rates during BEA, as well as an extraordinary package of other benefits.

The 2008 Hotel ABA, The Renaissance Hollywood, is now accepting reservations from the American Booksellers Association's bookstore and provisional members planning to attend BookExpo America in Los Angeles.

Today, the American Booksellers Association opens registration for the 2008 Hotel ABA in Los Angeles, accommodations exclusively for ABA bookstore and provisional members attending BookExpo America. Hotel ABA, The Renaissance Hollywood, offers booksellers a special room rate, great accommodations, and an extraordinary package of other benefits.

BookExpo America (BEA) show organizers have announced that the 2010 convention, which was to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been moved to Washington, D.C., due to scheduling conflicts at the Las Vegas convention center. BEA in Las Vegas has been rescheduled for 2011.

Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., doesn't limit its book-club topics to, well, politics and prose. According to buyer Mark LaFramboise, the store's 16 clubs include Fascinating History, Spirituality, Spanish Language, and Knitting Circle. There's also a group with a proclamation-as-name: Still Feminist After All These Years.

When the book industry's Emerging Leaders gathered at Floyd, a Brooklyn bar, for a May 30th event sponsored by BookExpo America, they did more than just socialize. "We wanted to have a party, but also have it be productive," said Jessica Stockton, Emerging Leaders NYC organizer and event coordinator for McNally Robinson Booksellers in New York City. "[Parties are] great for creating connections, but we wanted to do more."

From the American Booksellers Association's "Welcome to Brooklyn" events on Wednesday, May 30, through the close of the trade show floor on Sunday, June 3, BookExpo America 2007 featured extensive educational programming, myriad networking opportunities, and, of course, books and authors galore.

BookExpo America attendees had the opportunity to determine who among them had the superior accretion of vocabulary knowledge during the first BookSense.com/American Heritage "Define-a-Thon" on Saturday afternoon, June 2, in the Book Sense Lounge.

Chuck and Dee Robinson of Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, were the presenters of the American Booksellers Association's program on "Staff Development" at the Day of Education at Hotel ABA on Thursday, May 31. During the well-attended session, which was repeated, the Robinsons outlined the basics of hiring, training, and motivating staff, including job application forms, interview questions, low-cost staff incentives, and more.