This is the sixth or seventh year I've attended the BEA-- Book Expo America. It's always a great experience. First, it's much more than just a book show. So much of publishing is electronic nowadays. The show draws thousands of visitors. it's massive. One reason it's so big is that it covers so many areas--
book publishing,
book printing,
E-book formatting, distribution, etc.
Blogging,
Book distribution
Adult, young adult, teen, children's products
University publishing,
Literary agents
Publicity,
Author / book promotion
specialty writers groups, like mystery writers, horror writers, romance writers
International Publishers from China (a huge showing) Saudi Arabia, Oman, Roumania, Spain, Italy, strong Canadian representation.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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