BEA

NYU Publishing Students on Next Generation Publishing

by Sabrina Future

The last day of BEA was incredibly busy. Between speed dating and interviews, I only had time to hear the last half of my fellow NYU publishing graduates panel. The topic was What The Next Generation Thinks: New Voices In Publishing Speak Out, and I’ve listed some of the more memorable quotes.

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PubSlush Press: Platform, Publisher, and Partner

by Sabrina Publishing

First off, PubSlush is a great name. But what do they do? Well, a lot of things.

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Speed Dating: An Overview of 9 Innovative Digital Publishing Companies and Products

by Sabrina Future
BEA

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) held a Digital Show and Tell last week at BEA. This consisted of 15 new companies, split up in to two groups, giving five minute pitches to attendees. It’s basically speed dating, but for digital publishing. Each session lasted long enough that all attendees could hear each of the [...]

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Basics of Licensing

by Sabrina Legal

The legal aspects of publishing fascinate me. Sure, they’re complicated and hard to understand at first, but it’s interesting to learn what you can and can’t do. Licensing is a very lucrative aspect of publishing. I don’t really think of licensing when I think of publishing, but some companies, such as IDW Publishing, Bendon Publishing [...]

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Understanding Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata

One of the first talks I went to at BookExpo America (BEA) this year was called, Understanding Metadata in the Digital Age. Bill Newlin, the publisher of Avalon, an imprint of Perseus, and Fran Toolan, the chief ignitor of Firebrand, presented. For this blog post, I will be focusing on external metadata (that goes in [...]

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BookExpo America 2012

by Sabrina Publishing
Book Expo America, BEA

Harlem globetrotters at BEA! This year’s BEA was exciting, and well, a little tiring. Next week I’ll be posting some of my highlights of the show, but for now I’d like to share a couple interesting tidbits. At this year’s show there were 1300 exhibitors and 22,365 industry professionals. This year was also the first time [...]

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BookExpo America

by Sabrina Publishing

It’s almost that time of year again, the time for BEA. Not in New York? Well, people interested in the publishing industry, you can watch BEA live streaming on my blog. Just bookmark this post! http://cdn.livestream.com/events/bea/channelsmall.html

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BEA Day 3: Swag

by Sabrina Publishing
BEA swag

Today was the third and last day of BEA. At 2:30 p.m., all the exhibitors shut down and started giving away their display copies, which meant I (and everyone else in the Jacob Javits Center) got a lot of stuff. In addition to books, I picked up posters, pencils, bags, and even a coupon for [...]

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BEA Day 2: Book Country

by Sabrina Publishing
Book Country

Book Country is an online community for writers of romance, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller, and mystery novels. The name gives the website a sense of being a real place. The site opened its beta site to the public one month ago, and already it has 2,500 users. That’s a lot, especially considering the site is run [...]

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BEA Day 2: Meeting Chuck Palahniuk

by Sabrina Publishing
Chuck Palahniuk

3:30 p.m. – Chuck Palahniuk. Table 2. At 2:40 p.m., I made my way to the Random House booth at BEA so I could meet one of my favorite authors and get a signed copy of his book, Damned. After battling a small mob and evading some cranky line-makers, I found myself number 30 or [...]

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BEA Day 1

by Sabrina Publishing
BEA

First day of my first BEA, BookExpo America. Fortunately, because of this publishing blog, I was able to attend for free! I spent about five hours today at the Expo, and I still wasn’t able to cover everything. It can be a little overwhelming, as some attendees may agree, but totally worth it. This year, [...]

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