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Librarians are invited to attend the Spring Book Show at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta free of charge. At the March 26-28 show, they’ll be able to buy four times as many books as they could from traditional dealers catering to libraries.

Bookstores and other book retailers are struggling as the public increasingly looks for lower-priced reading material. The 2010 Spring Book Show March 26-28 offers retailers a chance to buy inventory at $2 per copy and less.

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.

Despite the economic recession, vendor space is completely sold out for the Spring Book Show, scheduled for the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta March 6-8. More than 50,000 titles will be available to dealers from around the world.

Georgia librarians may attend the Spring Book Show at the Cobb Galleria Centre in north Atlanta free of charge. At the March 6-8 show, they’ll be able to buy four times as many books as they could from traditional dealers catering to libraries.

A number of independent bookstores have become casualties of the depressed U.S. economy. But there is hope for retailers willing to adapt to the economic slump.

L.B. May and Associates has announced that the 2009 Spring Book Show will be held March 6-8 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in north Atlanta.

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.

Larry May, founder of Atlanta’s Spring Book Show, discussed the state of the bargain book business in recent interviews in the Southern Review of Books and the Associated Book Exchange (AbeBooks) newsletter.