BookExpo

BookExpo America show organizers have announced that the 2010 trade show will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 10 - 13. This will be the first time that the show has been in Las Vegas since 1990.

The American Booksellers Association today announced the opening of registration for Hotel ABA - Brooklyn, the hotel exclusively for ABA member booksellers planning to attend BookExpo America (BEA) 2007.

Approximately one thousand booksellers are expected to stay at the hotel, the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, during next year's BEA at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, from Thursday, May 31, to Sunday, June 3.

Attracting about 10,000 attendees, 75 vendors, and more than 70 authors, the first Brooklyn Book Festival, held on September 16 at the Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, was such a success that plans are already underway to make it an annual event.

BookExpo America (BEA) has issued an invitation to the book industry to submit proposals regarding authors and other speakers to participate in special events and education programs at next year's show. BookExpo America 2007 will be held at New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center from Friday, June 1, through Sunday, June 3.

Statistics show that one in seven Americans has family roots in Brooklyn, New York. If your family is among them, Bookselling This Week would like to know.

On Wednesday, August 23, the BookExpo America management team met with representatives from various segments of the book industry at Reed Exhibitions headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, to discuss ways to enhance the annual trade show.

Several weeks ago, when the American Booksellers Association announced that the site of Hotel ABA at BookExpo America 2007 will be the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, in Brooklyn, the association's COO, Oren Teicher, described the borough as "steeped in literary tradition, with much to offer independent booksellers." A good part of that rich literary tradition and vast share of li

The American Booksellers Association and Reed Exhibitions today announced several key details about BookExpo America 2007, which will be held at New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center from Friday, June 1, through Sunday, June 3.

The owners and staff of ABA member stores who visit the American Booksellers Association booth at any of the nine regional association fall trade shows will have the chance to win prizes, compliments of ABA and BookExpo America (BEA). In a random drawing at each show, ABA will award a color inkjet printer. The nine printer winners will then be entered into a grand prize drawing to win airfare to, and up to a three-night hotel stay at, the association's 2007 Winter Institute.

The American Booksellers Association will reprise its very popular Hotel ABA, in conjunction with BookExpo America 2007 in New York City, at a location in downtown Brooklyn, close to the Brooklyn Bridge.

With Alberto, the first storm of the 2006 hurricane season, having formed and weakened to a tropical depression this week, the advice offered at last month's BookExpo America panel "Coping With Disaster: What to Do When Catastrophe Strikes" is particularly timely. And, as panel participant Scott Naugle, owner of Pass Christian Books, in Pass Christian, Mississippi, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, warned the audience, disaster can come in many guises, ranging from natural disasters to computer viruses.

Bookstore Tourism, and what it can mean for booksellers and their communities, was the subject of a panel at last month's BookExpo America moderated by Larry Portzline, the founder of the nonprofit National Council on Bookstore Tourism and author of Bookstore Tourism: The Book Addict's Guide to Planning & Promoting Booksto