Book dealers from around world will attend Spring Book Show in Atlanta

PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 09, 2008 – ATLANTA, Ga. – Spring Book Show 2008, long the South’s largest bargain book show, and now the largest such show in the nation, opens at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on Friday, March 28, and runs through Sunday, March 30.
   All 550 vendor spaces for the show were sold out in January, but registrations by buyers are still open and on the way to setting a new record.
   This year’s show will draw more than 100 remainder dealers from around the world. They will be offering more than 50,000 book titles at bargain prices to hundreds of buyers from book stores, specialty retailers, public and academic libraries and school media specialists.
   According to show organizer Larry May of Knoxville, Tenn., special attention has been paid this year to inviting the book industry public from the Southeast, from Georgia and, in particular, from the 14-county metro Atlanta area.
   As in the last few years, the show is waiving the $50 registration fee for all librarians from Georgia, who may attend the show free. This year, the librarians are also invited to attend some of the educational sessions associated with the show, regularly $55 to $140, for free. The offer to librarians covers all public librarians, academic librarians from colleges and universities and public and private school media specialists who function as librarians. The show provides the librarians an opportunity to purchase books ranging from children’s to adult titles at deeply discounted prices.
   May said the largest remainder dealers from the United States, Canada, Africa, Australia and Great Britain will be attending the Atlanta show. They’ll display their wares – the largest collection of remainder books, returns, white sales and promotional books in the nation – at 500-plus display units in over 70,000 square feet of space.
   The Spring Book Show caters to buyers who purchase 25 or more copies of individual titles from dealers who specialize in bargain books.