Book Parties and Festivals

2012 Book Expo America

Mutiple Authors and Publishers

About the Program

BookTV attends Book Expo America, the publishing industry's annual trade show held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.  Our coverage consists of interviews with authors and publishers on their forthcoming titles and discussions on current state of the publishing world.  Today's schedule includes: 

Interview with Bernice King, Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King

Interview with HarperCollins editors, Adam Bellow and Bill Strachan on forthcoming titles

Discussion with indepenedent publishers, Johnny Temple, founder and publisher of Akashic Books & Dennis Johnson, co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House Books

Interview with Carolyn Coleburn, director of publicity at The Viking Press on forthcoming titles

Interview with Michael Cader on BEA Buzz Books: Excerpts From Over 30 Top Fall 2012 Titles

Interview with Sarita Varma, director of publicity at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on forthcoming titles

Discussion with booksellers, Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books (Coral Gables, Florida) & Betsy Burton, co-owner of The King's English (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Interview with Scott Moyers, publisher of The Penguin Press on forthcoming titles

Interview with Lynn Povich author of The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

Interview with Campbell Wharton, director of publicity at Crown Books on forthcoming titles

Discussion on the state of publishing with Jonathan Karp, executive vice president and publisher of Simon and Schuster & Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove/Atlantic

Interview with Carrie Adams, publicity maganger at the University of Chicago Press on forthcoming titles

Interview with Robert Sullivan, author of My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78

Program Information

2012 Book Expo America

Past Airings

  • Sunday, June 17th at 1pm (ET)
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