Love books?
PBS Book View Now Wants to Take You to Chicago!
Live coverage starts at Noon EST/1pm CT
Head to BookExpo America and BookCon in Chicago this week
Bring your audiences along!
May 12th, 13th, and 14th 2-7pm ET / 11 am-4pm PT
BEA and BookCon 2016!
- Hosted by: Rich Fahle
- May 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2016
PBS Book View Now brings you
BEA and BookCon May 12, 13, & 14 2016. BookExpo America
(BEA) is the leading book and author event for the North American
publishing industry. BookCon is an immersive experience that features
panels, Q&A, autographing sessions, and interactive content
marrying the published word with video, podcasts, and more. Authors
scheduled to appear in the coverage include:
- Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
- Kenny Loggins, Footloose
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
- Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
- Lauren Oliver, Replica AND Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
- Jonathan Scott & Drew Scott, Dream Home: The Property Brothers' Ultimate Guide to Finding & Fixing Your Perfect House
- Chris O'Dowd and Nick V. Murphy, Moone Boy: The Fish Detective
- And Many More!
Any PBS stations on Bento that would like to offer the live stream, please contact Cheryl Spitale Jones at cjones@dptv.org for
the Bentomatic.
ABOUT PBS Book View Now
PBS Book View Now is
an impressive
gathering of National Book Award nominees and winners, as well as
enthusiastic readers and writers, all in one place to explore and
celebrate the written word. PBS continues to provide content that allows
viewers to discover new ideas and explore the community
around them. Books matter. And the authors that write them—together
with the ideas and stories they tell—all matter. And no one understands
this as well as PBS. It’s precisely this type of smart, thought provoking content that people turn to PBS to discover. For
many viewers PBS provides a “stage” to musical acts, a “road trip” to
uncharted landscapes, and is now uniquely positioned as a
“conversationalist” to the world of books and authors.
PBS Book View Now provides booklovers unable to attend the
jubilee the occasion to join the fun, expand their knowledge through
non-fiction, and get lost in the world of literature.
Watch a preview from the LA Times Festival of Books that happened in April
here!
Host -
Rich Fahle
After
meeting his future wife for a first date at the venerated DC
bookstore Kramerbooks, Rich eventually managed it for several years,
before leaving to join the marketing department at the national cable
network
C-SPAN. He was Communications Director and Chief Spokesperson for the
iconic public affairs network and helped launch Book TV. After a number
of years, Rich left DC for Michigan to join Borders, the national
bookstore company, at their headquarters in Ann
Arbor. At Borders, Rich rose to become Vice President of Content and
Entertainment, working with every major publisher, music label, and
movie studio, as well as hundreds of authors, musicians and artists—a
perfect place to satisfy all of his pop culture cravings.
In addition to Astral Road Media, Rich is the executive producer of
Book View Now on PBS, a vibrant book and author-focused entertainment
hub distributed via the broad PBS platform.
For more on the Book View Now strategy, see this article in Publisher’s
Weekly.
Book View Now is an opportunity to engage the book lover who appreciates a great story. Produced by Detroit Public Television, Book View Now is made possible by the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, PBS and AWP.
Enjoy!
Rich Homberg
President and CEO
Detroit Public Television
248-640-4169 - @RichHomberg -
rhomberg@dptv.org
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