BookExpo

SOLD OUT! With BookExpo America just over two months away, booksellers who are still interested in staying at Hotel ABA - NYC (the Park Central Hotel) must act now to ensure they reserve a room. All double rooms at the Park Central have been sold out and singles are going fast. This year's BEA will be held from Thursday, June 2 - Sunday, June 5, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

BookExpo America (BEA) has announced this year's full education conference program. BEA's education sessions will extend over four days, beginning Wednesday, June 1, and concluding on Saturday, June 4. All programming will take place at the Jacob K Javits Center in New York City, this year's convention site for BEA.

This year's Celebration of Bookselling at BookExpo America will add the lively sounds of world music to the mix of booksellers, publishers, and Book Sense authors and awards. Putumayo World Music, publishers of upbeat compilations of international music on CDs, will be sponsoring the highly anticipated event, which is free and open to all show attendees, on Friday, June 3, from 5:30 p.m.

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.

Strains of "At the Copa" may be heard as children's booksellers make their way to BookExpo America 2005 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center during the first week in June. Educational programming for children's booksellers is scheduled for Thursday, June 2, and the day concludes with a dinner and auction at Manhattan's legendary Copacabana to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC).

At the end of February, ABA published a first look at the presenters for its Thursday, June 2, "Day of Education" at BookExpo America 2005 (June 2 - 5, at New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center).

Comedian and author Bill Maher will perform for an audience of booksellers and other book industry professionals at this year's BookExpo America Book Industry Foundation Benefit. The exclusive, "closed" appearance on Saturday, June 4, at New York City's The Town Hall will benefit the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) and the Association of American Publishers Get Caught Reading Campaign.

At this year's BookExpo America, to be held from June 2 - 5 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, author and bookstore consultant Kate Whouley is hoping to help booksellers put a finger on what has always been an elusive, yet crucial, retail element: ambience -- that certain something that keeps customers coming back to the store.

The popular ABA-sponsored Booksellers School for prospective and novice booksellers will be presented at BookExpoAmerica (BEA) 2005 in New York, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The school, which has helped hundreds of new booksellers learn the fundamentals of the business, will run from Wednesday, June 1 - Friday, June 3, and includes free admission to the trade show, which runs from June 2 - 5.

This week, ABA announced the presenters for its Thursday, June 2, "Day of Education" at BookExpo America 2005 (June 2 - 5), at New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center. A stellar list of bookselling experts will lead a rich and thorough series of educational offerings with one goal in mind -- to help booksellers increase their bookstores' bottom line.

Booksellers and other industry professionals attending ABA's Celebration of Bookselling at this year's BookExpo America (BEA) will be treated to an event hosted by multitalented performer Al Franken.