Days 2 & 3 BEA Photos

The final two days of BEA, Wednesday and Thursday, were very productive. The whole convention turned out to be one of the most upbeat book industry gatherings in several years. After a total of four days walking the halls of Javits Convention Center–Monday was the BEA Bloggers Conference, followed by the three days of the actual convention–I am sifting through the mound of catalogs, reading copies, business cards, and promo materials that Kyle and I lugged back to our home office, and replaying in my mind all the great conversations, book ideas, and collegiality we enjoyed. Following up our first day’s photos, here are pictures from the final two days, again taken by Kyle. The photo above was taken at the booth of Zola Books, which had a great response at BEA to their new social reading platform. In it, Joe Regal (2nd from right), made a happy group with his colleagues, under their banner, “The first eBook retailer from the community–for the community.” Additional photos, including the ones we took at Neil Young’s appearance with Patti Smith, will be posted in coming days.
Update: Publishers Weekly’s Rachel Deal has published a good article about Zola.

: Zola Books had a great response at BEA to their new social reading platform. Here, Zola CEO Joe Regal, (2nd from right) made a happy group with his colleagues.

: Zola Books had a great response at BEA to their new social reading platform.

: Zola Books’ Joe Regal (c., in glasses) is speaking with Ira Silverberg (r.), literature director at the NEA

: I’m talking with colleague Mark Dietrich, of my newest client Speakerfile, who I worked with at BEA.

: I used my IPad to show The Great Gray Bridge to my longtime Avalon Publishing colleague, Michele Martin, and her husband Steve Harris.

: This picture shows an exchange I had with longtime publishing friend Roger Cooper, of Perseus’s Vanguard Press.

: With Roger Cooper.

: BEA display of the terrific Princeton Architectural Press.

: Ken Burns’ latest, written with Dayton Duncan, on the Dust Bowl.

: The Dust Bowl, sample spreads.

: Titles from Counterpoint Press, including Jenny Van Horne’s ‘A Complicated Marriage: My Life with Clement Greenberg.’

: George Gibson, of Bloomsbury/Walker, with booksellers

: Lulu.com gave away book straps, and AJ MacDonald had fun showing us how they work.

: An interesting juxtaposition.

: To cover on this blog, we asked University of Illinois Press to send us their upcoming book on the accordion.

: Roving coffee vendors are popular on the convention floor, especially with folks who do booth duty and can’t get away from their stand.

: Sharing the hand-out on this blog and my business with longtime Carroll&Graf colleague, Will Balliett, nowadays at Thames&Hudson.

: A light-hearted exchange with Bob Weil, who’s reviving the Liveright imprint at W.W. Norton.

: A pirate and a publisher sharing the same gesture.

: Stephen Colbert’s latest, coming out in Fall 2012.

: The many imprints of Random House had a lot of signings over three days at BEA.

: Ian McEwan, meeting booksellers and librarians and signing his upcoming novel ‘Sweet Tooth.’

: Bruce Shaw (l.) of Harvard Common Press offered me a copy of their cookbook ‘The Ploughman’s Lunch&The Miser’s Feast,’ on pub food, which I was happy to accept for review.

: Wiley’s Anne Ficklen

: The aisle for publishers from Spain reminded me of a post-modern airport terminal.

: Longtime publishing friends, sales reps, Chris Kerr and Linda Cannon.

: Laura Cunningham of Wisdom Publications was eager to tell us about ‘The Mindful Writer.’

: Ellen Bollinger, advertising director of The Nation magazine made a splash with their current issue, featuring Steve Wasserman’s cover story, ‘Amazon&the Conquest of Publishing.’

: Kyle and I really enjoyed the look of the booth and the books from Applewood Publishing, featuring 19th and early 20th century Americana.

: Titles from the Getty Museum’s publishing imprint.

: University of Nebraska Press has terrific books and I enjoyed hearing about their new list from Thomas Swanson (r.) and Rob Taylor.

: The Workman Publishing booth is always one of the best.

: Among the Black Dog&Leventhal titles I’m eager to read in the fall will be Simon Winchester’s ‘Skulls.’

: Douglas&McIntyre of Vancouver, B.C. is publishing the clever ‘America, But Better, the Canada Party Manifesto–An Intervention from Your Continental BFF.’