Dateline BEA: Blogging from elsewhere

The Elegant Variation’s Mark Sarvas took a more formalized approach to BEA – going for meetings instead of impromptu conversations with publicists – but offers up a from-the-floor report nonetheless.

AOL Book Maven Bethanne Patrick was similarly busy on the interview front but managed to hook Tracey Ullman up with Margaret Atwood – and introduce the comedienne to the virtues of the LongPen.

Newdsay’s Aileen Jacobson and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Bob Hoover were mainstream journalists blogging away. Jacobson discusses the overall lack of buzz while Hoover gets pictures from the floor and provides more general impressions of the conference.

Writer Beware co-founder Ann Crispin comes back with a horror story about one publisher and their penchant for stealing copyright.

Other impressions show up via Ionarts, Gwenda Bond and Miss Snark, who has the second-funniest cab story I heard over the weekend.

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