BEA Adds Authors and Broadcast of High-Profile Events

Posted Thursday, May 24, 2012

This week, BookExpo America (BEA) announced that, for the first time, the show’s author appearances will be available to the public for viewing live and on demand.  BEA’s Author Breakfasts will be broadcast via Livestream across the web and on mobile devices. The streamed events will showcase “buy buttons” from IndieBound, Sony, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble to allow viewers to order current titles or place a pre-order for titles that have not yet been released.     

Other BEA author events  will be recorded, including programming on the Downtown Stage and the Editors Buzz panels. Both the live and recorded programming will be archived and will be available for viewing on demand during and after the show at www.bookexpoamerica.com and www.facebook.com/bookexpoamerica. The programs will also be available to dedicated industry trade sites and bloggers.  

BEA plans to broadcast 20 hours of live coverage from the convention and will add recorded events to the BEA website for several weeks following the close of the show. Viewers will be able to share live events on Twitter and Facebook, and an interactive chat feature will allow viewers from around the globe to interact. A select few questions will be taken from outside viewers for BEA panelists.

In other news this week, BEA announced the addition of two authors from the entertainment world to its events lineup. Jimmy Fallon, the host of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, whose Thank You Notes 2 was published this month by Grand Central Publishing, will make a special guest appearance at the 8:00 a.m. Author Breakfast on Thursday, June 7, in the Special Events Hall. The breakfast will also feature the presentation of the 20th annual PW Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year Award.   

Singer-song writer Patti Smith, the 2010 National Book Award winner for Fiction for Just Kids (Ecco), was added this week to the Wednesday, June 6, free noon-time event in the Special Events Hall. Smith will interview Neil Young about his upcoming memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, to be published in North America by Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), in fall of 2012.  BEA attendees are invited to bring their lunch to the event.

Previously announced BEA Author Event participants are:

TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

  • Stephen Colbert, AMERICA AGAIN: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t (Grand Central Publishing)
  • Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead/Penguin Group, USA)
  • Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior (HarperCollins)
  • Jo Nesbo, Phantom (Knopf)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Children’s Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

  • Chris Colfer,The Land of Stories (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton/Penguin Young Readers Group)
  • Lois Lowry, Son (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Kadir Nelson, I Have a Dream (Random House Children’s Books)

THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Adult Book & Author Breakfast (Special Events Hall)

  • Kirstie Alley, Untitled (Atria Books)
  • Michael Chabon,Telegraph Avenue: A Novel (HarperCollins)
  • Zadie Smith, NW: A Novel (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group, USA)
  • J.R. Moehringer, Sutton (Hyperion)

Tickets for all BEA Author Breakfasts are currently on sale for $45 for breakfast roundtable seating and $25 for no breakfast theater seating. You must be a registered BEA attendee in order to purchase a ticket.  Doors open at 7:45 a.m. 

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