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May 31, 2014

Doing BEA-- Book Expo America

By Rob Kall

Yesterday I did the BEA-- the annual Book Expo America-- at the Javitz Center in New York City.

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Yesterday I did the BEA-- the annual Book Expo America-- at the Javitz Center in New York City.

It's a huge annual event-- the biggest one for the American book publishing industry. I started to write books, but it is so much more.

People queue in lines to get autographs from
People queue in lines to get autographs from
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Here's a blurb from the BEA website:
BookExpo America (BEA) is North America's largest gathering of book trade professionals attracting an international audience. The event is widely known as an ideal place for content creators, media, booksellers, rights professionals, and movie and television executives to meet new authors, discover new books, learn about trends shaping the book industry, and network with those who have a passion for books and reading. BEA is foremost a gathering place for creative writers and thinkers and the commerce they create. It is recognized for the media attention it brings to upcoming books as well as for the notable authors it attracts to the convention itself.
There are a lot of booths offering new technologies-- new ways to digital, audio,

I go for a few reasons:
-to find books whose authors would make good guests for my radio show.
-to make arrangements with publishers to excerpt content form their books.
-to see new trends in ideas and issues publishers are covering
-to bounce book ideas off editors and publishers.

Many of my author friends have made the trek to NYC to do the show. They all love it. Some walk it to get a feel for the market and the publishing world zeitgeist.

Some to to promote their latest books. Matter of fact, walking down one of the aisles I saw one signing books in the Mystery Writers booth It was Jon McGoran, author of DRIFT, which Amazon describes as, "An ecological thriller about genetically modified foods and pharmaceuticals." Matter of fact, last time I saw Jon, outside of our writers group, was at the 2013 March Against Monsanto, where he spoke (and then wrote about it for OEN.) I rarely, hardly ever read fiction, because I'm always prepping for my next radio interview. But I'm going to commit to reading this one, which could get me in trouble, since Jon has two more coming out in his series.

it was also really fun to have a surprise. I was talking to the publicity person at New World Library, a very cool publisher which has had some huge successes, like the writings of Eckhart Tolle. She told me she was getting ready for the next author coming to sign books. As she opened a carton of books I saw that it was a book by my friend Jim Donovan, who's contributed over 30 articles to Opednews. The book is titled, Happy at Work: 60 Simple Ways to Stay Engaged and Be Successful .

Every year the show is marked by long lines of people, queued up to get a free book signed by an author, often very famous authors.



In past years, I've brought a suitcase with wheels to carry all the books I've picked up. In the bowels of the Javits Center there's a huge room where thousands of people fill boxes with books they're going to ship back home. This year I decided to be more discriminating. I took a backpack instead of a wheelie suitcase AND a backpack. And I finished the day with only 20 books instead of the 50 or more I've acquired in the past. I knew I had plans on going from BEA to Left Forum and I did not want to be lugging so many books. It was a good decision. I got a great pick and a lot less back pain. I'm also hoping that the exhibitors who said they'd send me books we discussed will follow through. There's one publisher that does not follow through every year. So I didn't even bother with them this year.

There are all kinds of people who go to BEA-- writers, publishers, editors, publicists, printers, binders, literary agents-- tech people, librarians-- a lot of librarians, bookstore owners, website builders, major websites like Google and Amazon.

This year I was a bit disappointed that I didn't see more progressive people. And it seemed there were less progressive publishers. That worries me.

Here are some pics from last year:











For a complete listing of exhibitors please click here.


Authors Bio:

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.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


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 and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


Rob Kall Wikipedia Page


Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel


Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel


Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.


Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.


To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.


For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.


Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..


To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.


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His quotes are here

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