Hooks Book Events staff is just back from a wonderful trip to New York to the annual Book Expo held this year at the Javits Center in NYC!
Imagine football fields back to back with filled books, books and more books. We arrived with our wonderful PR maven, Hope Gibbs of Inkadescent PR www.inkandescentpr.com who joined in the fun and chaos.
We brought our new “everyone needs one” book bags with the HBE logo this year. These zippered totes were all the rage with friends like Dan Pink and Jonathan Galassi, who quickly filled them with all the free books vendors were handing out.
We are home, feeling exhausted yet re-energzied about our love of the book, and the power of an idea and a good story. The hundreds of folks there from all over the world share this appreciation and we feel confident that regardless of the form these stories may take the concept of the book will live on.
Yes, the industry is changing. Yes, just like what we were hearing 10 years ago about the newspaper industry, it is possible that the book publishing world may be following suit.
But we also heard from some passionate editors and amazing writers whose new books we can not resist. So no matter what the future holds for this industry that we adore, we find it hard to imagine a world with no books to hold, to mark up, to lend, to return to share and to cherish.
So here’s to the book and to all the wonderful friends in our tribe who write them, edit them, package them, publicize them, sell them and read them! — Perry Pidgeon Hooks
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