When Katie Donelan four years ago became BookBub's third employee and the first one who was not a co-founder, the bargain e-books email list reached fewer than 100,000 members. At BookExpo America (BEA) last month, she told me BookBub now has nearly 70 employees and seven million subscribers. Donelan, BookBub's director of business development, is one of my guests on this week's Kindle Chronicles podcast. In other interviews recorded at BEA, we also hear from a publisher daring to release longer than usual books for young readers, an innovator whose app adds Augmented Reality to paper books for kids, and an author who this year risked publishing a book about a candidateThe post A Look Back at BEA: BookBub, innovations in children's books, The Onion's bold bet on a Trump book appeared first on TeleRead News: E-books, publishing, tech and beyond.
