Perseus Books Group is sponsoring 10x10, an app for iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads that will enable BEA attendees to pick the 10 books from the fall lists that they are most excited about. The results of the iVoting will be announced on Thursday at 4 p.m. and will include the 10 most anticipated fall titles in general, as well as the 10 hottest titles in 10 categories: fiction, current events, history, science, business and economics, art and design, cookbooks, children's books, inspirational and self-help and "all other."
Throuh its Constellation Digital platform, Perseus is offering to convert for free any of the top titles for the iBookstore and other e-retailers for publishers that can't yet do digital distribution. The Daily Beast is covering 10x10, with blogging and will feature the results on its website.
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HarperCollins is inviting authors at BEA to a special booth devoted solely to the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird, complete with a small video camera for recording authors' 30- to 45-second memory of first reading the book or what is has meant to them. A tribute book will be sent to Harper Lee after the show. Go to booth #3359, near HarperCollins.
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Incidentally today's New York Times has a roundup of some of at least 50 celebrations planned this summer for To Kill a Mockingbird's anniversary. They include readings, parties, movie screenings and scholarly discussions--some of which take place in Monroeville, Ala., Harper Lee's hometown.