Your Voice - Your Choice
Attention Book Store Owners and Personnel
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by Valerie May
We want to hear your voice!
What are some of the greatest challenges you face in this ever changing marketplace? Submit them to valmay@bargainbooknews.com and we will post some of them in the upcoming issues of Bargain Book News and see what ideas and solutions others in the industry have offer. Also, if you have some great promotional ideas that work for you, or that you will be trying this Holiday season and would like to share them or post a photograph, send them in, too!
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Industry Trade Shows
Don't forget to register for the Spring Book Show! SBS Vendor space is already 95% reserved! Also, CARMEX 2008 opens registration. Check out the latest listings. Be sure to send the dates and places for future trade shows to valmay@bargainbooknews.com. Read On!
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Trade Show Tips
Top 7 Things You Should Expect as an Exhibitor
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by Julia O'Connor
Exhibiting at a trade show should not be a game of “you pay your money and you take your chances.” Success at a trade show has many components - logistics, staffing, promotions and presentation. You may be responsible for a little bit or all of it - but what's on the other side? What are your expectations? The quality of a show should have - ideally - all of these components. Read On!
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Did You Know?
25 Trends That Changed America
USA TODAY editors and reporters choose what they considered to be the 25 most important trends of the past quarter-century. See if you agree. Read On!
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Industry Interview
Marshall Smith, CIROBE
by Maryellen Kennedy Duckett
Marshall Smith and Brad Jonas are gearing up for the 2007 CIROBE (Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Book Exposition), the trade show they founded 17 years ago. This year’s edition will be held October 26-28 at the Hilton Chicago. In a recent interview with Bargain Book News, Smith explained why CIROBE is still the place to be after all these years, and why Ohio State is poised for a national college football championship run. Read On!
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Industry News
“If you have a bookstore and are not selling remainders and sidelines, you don’t have a business…you have a hobby.”
Larry May, owner of the Spring Book Show and the Great American Bargain Book Show (GABBS), paraphrased Gayle Shanks (PW's 2007 Bookseller of the Year and owner of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, AZ), during a TableWork seminar at the annual Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance last weekend in Atlanta, GA. The Trade Show which also hosted authors, publishers, booksellers and more, included several excellent Educational Seminars that BBN will feature in future issues. This first one covers used, antiquarian and remainder books. Read On!
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Janet Bollum and Larry May double team on Antiquarian, Used and Remainder Books to a room full of SIBA members in Atlanta last weekend.
Minding The Store
The Biggest Handicap to Retail Sales People
by Mark J. Zobrosky
In this article we are going to talk about something that very few people are willing to embrace...change. As a matter of fact the only group that I can think of that are willing to embrace change is babies in wet diapers. In this article, we will discuss the fears we have as retail sales professionals and how change can help us to become "undefeatable". Read On!
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In The News . . .
by Tiffany Noel
UK Borders sold, Shableski joins Diamondback, Macmillan's CEO leaves, Simon & Shuster creates new positions, and Sherman's Travel magazine will now be sold in stores. Also, new ABA member stores, and much more! Read On!
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Sourthern Review of Books
by Noel Griese
Information from Southern Review of Books! Meanderings on Greenspan, Tony Blair, Rumsfeld and more... Read On!
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Swap & Shop
by Valerie May
 Click "full story" for listings!
Interested in BUYING a publishing or book-related business? Need an affordable line of Classics for your store? Buyer looking for "Dummies." Store for sale and a place to donate books! Pallet Jacks for sale! Cookbooks for sale! Also mixed skids, sideline product, remainders, store fixtures, self-seal mailers and more!
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