BOOK EXPO AMERICA 2003

摘要

The annual Book Expo America (BEA) was held in Los Angeles, May 29-June 1. Always an incredible occasion for authors, publishers, publicists, booksellers, rights professionals, information providers and librarians, this event is as close to the annual international event held every autumn in Frankfurt as it gets to seeing what content will be commercially available in coming weeks and months. For librarians, it is a different trade show and conference experience than others associated with the work we do. This is because librarians are a minority stakeholder at BEA since the emphasis is on building relationships between content producers and their commercial front-ends. Librarians may purchase, acquire, and lease information but it is not on the scale of a bookseller who is negotiating multiple copies of works for potentially multiple commercial enterprises or locations. Whereas the librarian is usually interested in learning about the content and may buy a single copy or one for each of selected branch locations in a public library setting.