Vendor space for Atlanta’s Spring Book Show 2008 sold out

ATLANTA, Ga. – Spring Book Show 2008, the South’s largest bargain book show, comes to Atlanta’s World Congress Center on March 28-30, and the show is shaping up to be a book-buying blowout. The original floor layout of 560 tables was already sold out in early January.
While space for vendors is no longer available, there is still plenty of opportunity for book buyers to register for the show, said show organizer Larry May of Knoxville, Tenn. The buyers who do register will have an opportunity to buy more than 50,000 different book titles for as little as 10 to 20 percent of list

price.
Participating book dealers will be offering their wares – mostly remainders in pristine condition and lightly hurt returns – to buyers from chain and independent bookstores; specialty retailers; public and academic libraries; church book stores; department stores; and school media specialists.
According to May, that last vendor space for the show was sold by Jan. 8.
The late-March show is timed to allow booksellers an opportunity to stock up for the summer selling season, which is characterized by vacations and beach reading.
A gathering to permit vendors and buyers to socialize is planned for the evening of March 28.
May said the largest remainder dealers from the United States, Canada and Great Britain will be attending the Atlanta show, where they’ll be able to buy stock for as much as 80 to 90 percent off suggested retail price. Vendors will display their wares in over 70,000 square feet of space at the World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta.