By admin on October 21, 2009
First, I had someone from a very large publisher tell me at the end of the show on Sunday that he would “never again suggest that SIBA exhibits should go to one day”. I’d love it if he’d step forward and identify himself in the comments section of this blog. SIBA was rockin’ and rollin’ [...]
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By admin on October 3, 2009
My name is Erica Eisdorfer and I’ve been a bookseller at the Bull’s Head Bookshop in Chapel Hill, NC for 30 years. I’m also the author of a novel, out from Putnam in August, called The Wet Nurse’s Tale.
I’ve attended my share of SIBAs and BEAs and also ABAs (which proves that I’ve been in [...]
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By admin on October 2, 2009
All good news to report from SIBA in Greenville, SC this year. Attendance was up according to SIBA official Nicki Leone. Angie Smits, of Southern Territory Associates, who has attended SIBA for years, said that her company saw an increase in orders this year.
Barry Doss, Publisher of The Design Group Press, an example of [...]
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By admin on June 19, 2009
Friday of SIBA
Writing the South Author Panel
Moderator: Karen Zacharias, Will Jesus Buy Me a Doublewide? Cause I need more room for my plasma TV (Zondervan)
featuring Batt Humphreys, Dead Weight (Joggling Board Press); Karen White, The Girl on Legare Street (NAL Trade Paperback); Donny Seagraves, Gone From These Woods (Delacorte Press); Amanda Gable, The Confederate General [...]
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By admin on June 15, 2009
Richard Peck, Silas House, Patricia Reilly Giff, Wendy Wax, Laura Hope-Gill, Beth Hoffman, Janice Hardy, Marianne Gingher, William Ferris, Beverly Barton, Larry Baker, Winton Porter, Steve Tiller, Lucy Nolan, Nicole Seitz, Mary Alice Monroe, Rick Yancey, Karen White, Donny Seagraves, Batt Humphreys, Amanda Gable, Karen Zacharias, Edie Hand, Catherine Ritch Guess, Gigi Amateau, Paul Morris, [...]
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By admin on June 14, 2009
Many thanks to Burgess Bub for sending this to me from Brooklyn!
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By admin on June 3, 2009
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By admin on April 27, 2009
SIBA’s Core Bookstore memberships are 18% above this time last year. I think it is due to these economic times that we are seeing this growth and others in the industry should take notice.
I have been putting on the largest southern bookselling trade show for nearly 20 years. Through both thick times and thin, and I [...]
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