Purdy, Director of Publicity, is in LA this weekend at Book Expo America. He will be reporting from the action for those of us left in NYC.
Live from the convention floor of BEA in LA. For those not in the know BEA stands for Book Expo America, the largest convention of publishers, media, bookstore owners, librarians and book lovers in the US and abroad. Super rep George Carroll from the great northwest just entered the OUP booth to say hello. Always great to see George! So far the floor is media lite, but we are encouraged by a steady stream of booksellers, librarians, authors et al who have passed through the booth to pick up an OED 80th anniversary tote with a copy of Reading the OED by Ammon Shea tucked inside. I am happy to say we have some great neighbors here in the 1700 aisle, with Harlequin across the way, HarperCollins a row away, the Perseus Group around the corner.
Darren Shannon, former OUP senior publicist cum Publicity Manager of Cambridge University Press was seen in the OUP booth earlier this morn all shorn and suited. I barely recognized him is his respectable guise. I had to cut our visit short when Donna Freitas, author of Sex and the Soul, made a booth appearance to express her great satisfaction with coverage of her book to date. Kudos to Kelly Hughes and our own Claudia Dizenzo for their great good efforts.
That’s BEA today, baby. More later.
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Remember when I told you about Library Elf here? (The free online service you can sign up for, that sends you an email BEFORE your library books are due–and alerts you when your holds have arrived.) Well, it works beautifully. I just received an email from Library Elf, letting me know that two of the books I recently placed on hold are in at my library, waiting for me–BEFORE I even received a call from my own library system, letting me know. How cool is that?
I love that I can receive email notifications. It even tells me which library to pick the books up at (in Toronto, we have a wealth of libraries, and you can request that books be shipped for pick up at whichever library you want), AND it shows me the status of all my other holds–which books are currently in transit, soon to arrive at the library, which books I’ve put a pause on. This is all information that I could get if I went to the library website, logged in, clicked through a bunch of pages to get to–but this comes to me without my having to do a thing. It’s so easy!
Do you regularly take books out from your library system? If so, I highly recommend Library Elf. I think that the alerts for books that you have on hold currently only work in the US and Canada.
As a side note–isn’t that photo by Soul Pusher amazing? It’s a view from a doll house, but before I know that, it looked like a wonderful fastasy–huge books, a tiny chair (thus tiny people). I love it. 