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MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association

Marketing Programs

Below is a list of upcoming opportunities offered by the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association to help you market your books.



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Baltimore Book Festival

The Baltimore Book Festival will be held this year from September 25-26, 2010. MBPA will again reserve a booth to promote members’ books. Books will be displayed face-out at our booth. Authors of exhibited books are eligible to be scheduled for a time slot where they can sell, promote, and autograph their books at the booth.

Watch this space for more information on registering as an exhibitor as the show draws nearer.


 




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Collingswood Book Festival

The Collingswood Book Festival will be held this year in Saturday, October 2, 2010. We made a fairly good showing last year, and your board is currently in the process of deciding whether MBPA will again reserve a booth to promote members’ books.

To help us gauge member interest in this display opportunity, please contact MBPA Secretary Mary Shafer at publisher AT wordforgebooks.com to express your interest in exhibiting at this show. One element that helps us decide in favor of a show is the number of members who volunteer to staff the booth, process exhibit entries, help with promotion and provide authors to sign their books at the events.

Other Regional Book Festivals

Our Discussion Forum contains a new list of other regional consumer street festivals and book fairs. MBPA finances won't permit us to represent the group at all of these, but your board is monitoring the discussion (and our email) to see if there is strong member interest in any of these other exhibit opportunities. If so, we may consider having a presence there, so speak up and let us know where you'd like to be! And if it turns out we just can't make it to a show you'd really like to be at, there's no reason you can't team up with a few of our other members to reserve a booth for yourselves to try out the show. Any reports we receive of high performance in sales, reader interest or both will garner serious attention from us in deciding our show participation commitment for next year.

Publishers Tip Sheets

The publishers tip sheet below has many good suggestions on partnering with booksellers.

Publishers Tip Sheet on Partnering with Booksellers


 
 
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