MY BOOKEXPO
BookExpo, the bookseller's and publisher's convention was held in LA last weekend, It was dizzying and fun. Great to see and run into friends and people who one knows just by email I have a stack of free galleys, and signed books to go through, and a stack of business cards to follow up on.
In short: the general consensus was that booksellers spent less and fewer attended BookExpo this year, but they were happy to be in LA and had fun here. There were parties all over town. Last Friday both Public Affairs and the New York Review of Books had parties at the Bel Air Hotel.
Still it's great to see so many people who love books -- and as someone said, the people who buy books, continue to buy books.
There was a fair amount of talk about digital books and the Kindle. Everyone agrees it will be part of the mix, just how much is not clear.
The real question, at least for publisher and writers, is when most non-fiction books only sell 6,000 copies, what can you pay, how many people can you employ, how do you structure a business around that reality?
Anyhow I am working on a long column on the book Expot that will appear in the Arts and LA insert of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, so I will give a fuller picture then.
In short: the general consensus was that booksellers spent less and fewer attended BookExpo this year, but they were happy to be in LA and had fun here. There were parties all over town. Last Friday both Public Affairs and the New York Review of Books had parties at the Bel Air Hotel.
Still it's great to see so many people who love books -- and as someone said, the people who buy books, continue to buy books.
There was a fair amount of talk about digital books and the Kindle. Everyone agrees it will be part of the mix, just how much is not clear.
The real question, at least for publisher and writers, is when most non-fiction books only sell 6,000 copies, what can you pay, how many people can you employ, how do you structure a business around that reality?
Anyhow I am working on a long column on the book Expot that will appear in the Arts and LA insert of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, so I will give a fuller picture then.
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