Photos, Laptop Theft, BEA on iTunes and Bootleg Rosie (which is really all about me)

A couple of BEA photos to share – no I don’t have a Flickr page full of shots, but I did just get over 4,000 shots from our show photographer. Don’t worry, you won’t see them on a Flickr page any time soon. The first shot is the BEA team and the second just a cool one that I like….

In a blog post that The Guardian first blogged about, apparently Macmillan chief executive Richard Charkin stole a Google laptop from their booth at BEA in an act of civil disobedience meant to protest the Google scanning project. This story has been floating around the blogosphere for a few days, but today The Bookseller picked it up so it will certainly create lots of chatter in the next few days. I’ve already read 4 or 5 posts responding to the move with opinions ranging from "Hurrah for Charkin" by one Guardian blog responder to "Charkin's stunt was so mind-numbingly dumb" by Cry Doctorow at Boingboing. Of course, feel free to weigh in yourself and just to note, the laptops were returned unscathed. Read the original post on Charkin's blog reagrding this protest theft.

BEA has finally made the big time! A mention on Gawker? No (Mrs. BEA asked me the other night what my obsession with Gawker is all about and I really had no credible answer for her). Our own home on iTunes for the BookExpo Cast pod casts! Check out our home on iTunes and the BookExpo Cast site and sign up for a feed, tons (over 100 in fact) podcasts are coming your way soon.

When I opened the Sunday morning author breakfast at BEA I think I was quite clear that there was to be no video recording of any kind. However, Access Hollywood felt they were above the law and beyond the reach of my iron fist of rule (can you read sarcasm in a blog) and got ahold of a bootleg video of Rosie’s remarks. Now by putting a link to the video I am in no way endorsing the behavior of Access Hollywood, instead I simply want you to notice that for 3 seconds at the end I got to be on Access Hollywood. Bootlegging the Rosie event? Deplorable. 3 seconds of me on TV? Titillating! It was also a great promo for BEA and in all seriousness a major goal of the show is to promote new books to the general public and raise awareness of forthcoming titles on behalf of our customers. This is an unconventional way to do so, that’s for certain…..



-L