Reporting by Lorraine Shanley, Amy Rhodes, and Constance Sayre. While BookCon brought teens out to the Javits Center in droves on Saturday, there’s general agreement that overall Book Expo America seemed to have a little more pizzazz this year. The convention, which ran May 28-31, featured a lot of stars, from Thursday’s Author Breakfast (where Neil Patrick…Continue Reading
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Louise Hay, the 80 year-old founder of Hay House, and Reid Tracy, President and CEO, were in town in mid-September to celebrate the opening of the New York office, under the supervision of Patty Gift. In addition, they were celebrating the launch of SmileyBooks, a joint partnership between the publisher and Tavis Smiley. At a…Continue Reading
Countless are the questions and few are the solutions publishers encounter when approaching “the digital problem” confronting the industry. But several publishers seem to be cracking the code, albeit from different ends of the spectrum. Travel publishers are capitalizing on its category’s unique potential to be nuggetized and monetized digitally, at times even rendering a…Continue Reading
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