gabbs News

Librarians from throughout the United States, but especially New York and New England, are invited to attend the Great American Bargain Book Show scheduled for Boston’s Hynes Convention Center on Thursday-Friday, August 19-20.

The Great American Bargain Book Show, held at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center Aug. 21-22, produced a record turnout of bargain book buyers.

The Great American Bargain Book Show, slated for Boston’s Hynes Convention Center Aug. 21-22, anticipates a record turnout of bargain book vendors and buyers.

Gayle Shanks, outgoing president of the American Booksellers Assn. and owner of the Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Ariz., will speak to bookstore owners at the Great American Bargain Book Show at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center on Aug. 21.

Librarians from throughout the United States, but especially New York and New England, are invited to attend the Great American Bargain Book Show scheduled for Boston’s Hynes Convention Center on Friday-Saturday, August 21-22.

Paige Poe of the American Booksellers Association informed independent bookstore managers at a meeting in Atlanta on Aug. 1 on details of ABA’s new IndieBound program. She spoke at the Great American Bargain Book Show.

Booksellers attending the Great American Bargain Book Show at Atlanta’s Cobb Galleria Centre on Aug. 1-2 found a wide variety of bargain books suitable for holiday stocking of store shelves.

As consumers seek to compensate for budgets threatened by spiraling fuel costs and the rising cost of essentials such as food, one of the discretionary budget areas where they’re cutting spending is on books.

As a way to familiarize the burgeoning church bookstore market with the availability of low-cost Christian books, the Great American Bargain Book Show is waiving the $50 registration fee for church bookstore attendees.

Hundreds entered contest to name new book trade show that makes its home at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The name selected for the show is “The Great American Bargain Book Show,” or “GABBS.”