BookExpo America
The largest and most important gathering of publishers, booksellers, librarians, distributors, rights agents, ebook-technology developers, authors, editors, printers, scouts, media, and book enthusiasts in the United States, BookExpo America is held annually in New York City in late spring and is second only to the Frankfurt Book Fair in terms of prestige. More than 20,000 publishing professionals find BEA to be a hotbed for networking, sourcing, and relationship building.