Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Check out the BISG Digital Show & Tell

Tomorrow the Book Industry Study Group is presenting a great (and FREE) event.  It is Digital Show & Tell.  Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM - Sotheby's Institute of Art, NYC


Only 80 seats available!

THE PLAN:  During NYC Digital Show & Tell attendees will "Speed Date" up and coming projects related to e-books, e-readers, digital books and digital content.

HOW IT WORKS: Eight demonstrators will elevator pitch their innovative digital project to a small section of attendees for 5 minutes, strictly timed. Once time is up, the demonstrators will rotate groups until all attendees have had the chance to view all projects. Once the rotation is complete, another eight demonstrators will take the floor.

When all's said and done, attendees will have "dated" up to 16 exciting new projects!

While it is free, you have to regsiter - do so ASAP BISG Show & Tell Reg Link

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

A Pilfered Post

I saw this on a Tweeted link from Village Books - it is from the site PopEater, this is written by Sarah Crow and is hysterical.

Read Excerpts From Snooki's Book, Prepare to Have Mind Blown

Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald may be widely acknowledged as America's preeminent literary talents, but none of them have gotten down with The Situation in a hot tub. This is where Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi enters the equation.

The 'Jersey Shore' star's first novel, 'A Shore Thing,' is scheduled for release this week and early buzz has contenders for the National Book Award shaking in their boots.

Snooker's prose encompasses all of the subtlety we've come to expect from the pocket-sized party girl, from the terse descriptions of her lifelong passions to the exquisitely-crafted allegory between her emasculated "juiceheads" and Puccini's tragic heroine in 'La Boheme.'

After the jump, we contrast Snooki's work (courtesy of the New York Post) with the literary greats, whose talents she has not only equaled but clearly surpassed.

On seeing another person, as if for the first time:

Fitzgerald: "Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor."

Polizzi: "He had an okay body. Not fat at all. And naturally toned abs. She could pour a shot of tequila down his belly and slurp it out of his navel without getting splashed in the face."

On anger:

Hemingway: "His rage began to thin as he exaggerated more and more and spread his scorn and contempt so widely and unjustly that he could no longer believe in it himself."

Polizzi: "Any juicehead will get some nut shrinkage. And bacne. They fly into a 'roid rage, it is a 'road' 'roid rage."

On love:

Steinbeck: "Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."

Polizzi: "Yum. Johnny Hulk tasted like fresh gorilla."

On the significance of place:

Didion: "A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image."

Polizzi: "Gia had never before been in jail. It wasn't nearly as gritty and disgusting as she'd seen on TV prison shows. The Seaside Heights drunk tank -- on a weekday afternoon -- was as clean and quiet as a church."

On the evil that lurks inside:

Faulkner: "There was something terrible in me sometimes at night I could see it grinning at me I could see it through them grinning at me through their faces it's gone now and I'm sick"

Polizzi: "Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky."

Thursday, December 16, 2010

BEA Announces Italy as focus of Global Market Forum Program

BEA ANNOUNCES ITALY IS GUEST OF HONOR AT  GLOBAL MARKET FORUM

International Initiative to Run Concurrently with BEA

Norwalk, CT, December 16, 2010: BookExpo America (BEA) and the Italian Trade Commission to the USA have today announced that Italy will be the focus of attention and Guest of Honor at the show’s highly successful Global Market Forum. A key component of BEA for international attendees, the Global Market Forum runs concurrently with BEA activities, and is specifically designed to serve all international attendees as well as all domestic publishing personnel with an investment in international publishing and book industry concerns. In the past three years the Global Market Forum has highlighted programs featuring publishing and literature from Spain (2010) and the Arab World (2009) as well as Global English Reading (2008).

BookExpo America officials are pleased to form this partnership with Italy in 2011. Today’s Italian publishing industry alongside with authors and books from Italy will be showcased in professional programs at the largest American book trade show while literary and related cultural programs, highlighting contemporary fiction in translation and in original editions, will take place at various cultural events across the city of New York as part of New York Book Week.

As in previous years, topics for debate will include contemporary fiction in translation, imports and exports of original books, children’s and young adult literature, as well as digital developments in the USA and in Italy and Europe in comparison.