28 Years of Book Trade
Show Exhibit
Experience
Hundreds
of Successful Trade
Shows
Here's
your opportunity to give your book, audio/video tape or
other
product exposure to the book market, library field, mail order arena,
professional
educators and gift shops at a cost
you can
afford. The
average trade show booth now rents for $1800 and up. That doesn't
include tables, carpeting, lighting,
union
labor, drayage service, book racks, airfare, shipping, car expenses,
meals,
hotel
bills, etc. You could spend more than $3500 on just one exhibit alone.
By
becoming
a part of the N.A.B.E. Book
Showcase
Exhibits,
you
can have your books on display for less than 10%
of what it would
cost
to exhibit your books yourself.
Our
N.A.B.E. BOOK SHOWCASE
EXHIBITS
are different from any exhibiting service. Your book
is
displayed
face-out within its'own special
category, such as Health,
Cooking,
Children's
Interest, etc. Only 50 to 100 books are displayed in each
show so your book is not buried
amidst
thousands of titles. Then, a professional sales staff, full of
enthusiasm
and warmth, who also speak Spanish and French, greet potential buyers.
We take
time
to get to know you and your book. Personal attention and
relationship-building
are the cornerstones of our success formula.
Our N.A.B.E. BOOK SHOWCASE EXHIBITS
are
bright, well-decorated, and colorful. We offer Prize
Drawings,
Free
Gifts, Bookmarks and more to increase booth
traffic. A few years ago, a publisher who had placed her book
in
3 different combined exhibits in the same show, told us that after
visiting
the other two places, she couldn't believe all the buyers and the
activity
that
was taking place at the NABE Booth. Authors are encouraged to make an
appearance
at shows if they wish. At most exhibits, publishers are given free
passes
to attend. Even if you cannot attend, your book will be in good hands.
This is our 28th
successful year of showcasing books..experience
you
can count on!
Place
Your Book In One or More of
Our
Upcoming Exhibits
California Book
Trade Show
South
San Francisco, CA
October
3rd-4th, 2013
This
energetic book show
draws
booksellers from areas with the highest per-capita book sales in the
country. Bookstore owners, large chain stores, major
book distributors,
and more will be attending from all over California,
and
Nevada
as well. Make certain your book is displayed to this
great
audience!
Special
Hot Books
Spotlight Section Available In This Exhibit
For An Additional Fee. See Details Below.
Pacific NW
Booksellers Show
Portland,
Oregon
October 6-8,
2013
Reach thousands of
book stores,
book distributors, wholesalers, libraries, young adult bookstores, and
a wide range of book buyers from all over Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Northern California. This show gets bigger every year.
California
Library Assn.
Show & Conference
Long
Beach, California
November
3-5, 2013
Showcase
your books, audios, videos and more in one of the largest library
market shows
of the year. You
can sell
direct to libraries and pocket
more profits. Or, you can help your
distributor sell more books with
this exposure to librarians from all over the Golden State.
Special
Hot Books
Spotlight Section Available In This Exhibit
For An Additional Fee. See Details Below.
Portland Gift
Show
Portland,
Oregon
March 8-10, 2014
Showcase
your book or product to gift
buyers from all over the Northwest, as well as to greeting card shops,
bookstores, hospital gift shops, department stores, specialty shops,
travel venues and more. The gift industry buys a wide variety of
interesting gift books, children's titles, cookbooks, humor, gardening,
travel & leisure, sports, health, poetry, inspiration and more.
Oregon Library
Assn.
Show
Salem, Oregon
April
16th-18th, 2014
Reach
public and academic
libraries from all over Oregon.
Expose your book not only to librarians but to hundreds of
potential buyers who will see your book for the first time and then
wish to purchase it for
themselves or as a gift. Good turnout every year.
Here's
What You Receive
When You Participate in the
N.A.B.E. BOOK
TRADE
SHOW
EXHIBITS....
- YOUR
BOOK
or
PRODUCT
will be displayed face-out in its own special category section with a
professional
Tri-Lingual (Spanish, French & English) sales staff attending.
We
talk
to everyone!
- YOUR
BOOK
or PRODUCT will be
featured in
our NABE BOOK SHOWCASE CATALOG, which will be passed out free to buyers
at each show. If you have a web site, it will also be listed
here.
- 25
of YOUR BOOK PROMOTION FLYERS
will be placed beside your book. When a buyer expresses interest in
your
title, a flyer will be handed out. If additional flyers are needed,
they
will be xeroxed at the show. We
also provide a special NABE Book Flyer Design Service for our members.
Be sure to request information about it with your order.
- Once you sign up, you'll receive the
Free
Report:
How to Get The Max From A Show. It gives you tips on how
to
design
order-pulling flyers, best follow-up methods and much more.
- A
SPECIAL
PARTICIPANT PACKAGE will
be e-mailed
to you, approximately 2 weeks after the Showcase, containing the list
of
buyers that we met at the show for follow up. The list will be sent
both
in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format as well as in CSV Ascii Text so the names
can
be
imported into any database. Plus, a Report on the Show itself. (You may
also receive the list and report by regular mail if you wish instead of
electronically.)
Ingrid
Crawford and Al Galasso
Here's
What Some of
Our
Past Exhibitors
Have
Said About Our Trade
Show Service:
"Thanks
for putting me in touch with the distributor you spoke with at the
show. We have a deal to put copies of the novels in two Portland Costco
Warehouse stores, and in the Eugene Costco. I'll do a book signing in
all three stores. If that goes well, and I'm confident that it will,
there is a great opportunity to expand into other Costco stores,
Wal-Mart and the big box book stores. It looks like the book show
exposure paid off."
Rod
Collins, Publisher
"Deena
and I have been truly blessed meeting you and Ingrid. You have
given us great tips and helped us out in this crazy book marketing
world. Thank you from the bottom our hearts
for all you have done. We look forward to continue our business
relationship with you."
Cherie McIntosh
and Deena Cook
"We wanted
to let you know that as a result of our follow-up contact on leads
received from the PLA Conference display in Portland, our book is being
added to the shelves of three out-of-state public libraries--in
Minnesota, Washington, and Idaho. And we expect more public library
requests for our book to follow. We'll be signing
up for
some of the other NABE showcases happening later in the year."
Bob Mayo, author, "Tamara's Child"
"Thanks
for your help promoting my Natural Health books in your NABE
Showcase Exhibits. I believe I owemuch of my success to your
efforts." John
Sherman, Ph.D. New Found Therapies Publications
"You
and Ingrid did a superb NABE job at the California Library
Association Trade Show. We appreciated how well you displayed
"Grandpa Grouper, The Fish With Glasses' and steered childrens
book buyers to us. Thank you.Grandpa Grouper sold
out! It pays to join NABE and I highly
recommend participating in your trade show program."
Don
Arends,
Mission Manuscripts, Inc.
"
I consider Al Galasso the most important friend I have in the
publishing field. People at the book conventions swarm
to his booths. They like him. Al is
warm,
personable,and takes as much time as a customer wants, to discuss any
of the books and authors he represents.
He delivers
over 100%."
Jim
Wortham,
Marathon Int.
"Thank you
for the excellent show report and names. Of all the shows I
have participated in, you have been the only one
providing exhibitors with such a superb input. You can count
on me for all future shows."
Emilia
Klapp, RD, BS, Preventive Nutrition Press
"I have been a member of NABE for many years. Al Galasso, the CEO, is a
fine, knowledgeable man. My books are generally exhibited at
their booth at BEA and other shows. Have had reviews in their
quarterly magazine, Book Dealers World. Al offers many services
beneficial to self-publishing offered at reasonable prices
or, in
some cases, free. Highly recommend."
John Harricharan, New World
Publishing
"Your
company and staff were indeed the light at the end of the tunnel
in my book marketing efforts. Your positive attitudes, kind and honest
opinions, advice, sincerity and motivational skills helped increase my
sales for my book right after the trade show. So many wonderful things
have happened since becoming a member and taking part in the Showcase
Exhibits. I am telling everyone I know about your
services." Jeanne Paiva, JP Publishers
"Al,
thanks for the leads from the last trade show. The first five I
contacted remembered my book and also taking the flyer you handed out.
Four out of five already ordered
for
their libraries. You did a great job representing my book.
I am very pleased with your service."
Joan
Shih,
The Chinese Cookery
"I
am extremely grateful to you for all your help in my getting Touched
by the Extraordinary to the public. I feel that your
assistance will enable me to reach greater numbers of
people and that this will help so many be more aware of their
own
gifts, as well as their eternal nature."
Susan
Apollon,
Matters of the Soul
"It
was great fun joining you and other NABE Members at
the recent exhibit. Happily, several positive and potentially lucrative
relations have resulted from that two day convention."
Rae Wilder, Longitude &
Latitude
"We
consider your showing of our books at the NABE
Book
Showcase
to be a success. So far, we've received five solid wholesale contracts
and are in the process of securing some large orders. Thanks for the
opportunity
to let us exhibit our books at such a reasonable
rate."
M.
Waters, Mutual Press
"I
have gotten many booksellers to carry my books
and important
exposure
at Book Expo thanks to the services of
N.A.B.E."
Dan
Kennedy, Kennedy
Communications
"I
just received a call from a gift store in
California, whose
owner
told me that she saw our book at the NABE Book Showcase Exhibit. She
proceeded
to order every book and label in our line. This one account certainly
paid
for our exhibit fee, and we expect much repeat business."
Cheryl
Long, Culinary Arts
"Just wanted to let you know the Monroe Press, an educational
and
counseling resource catalog, saw our book at the NABE Book Showcase
Exhibit,
and decided to place it in their catalog."
M.Guymon,
MoDel Publishers
"Thanks
for your efforts in the promoting of my
Survival
Guides.
The first two shows I placed my books brought an excellent
response." Robert
Pelton, Publisher
"In
May of 1999 you showed my educational product in
California
at
the IRA convention.
Over a year later it paid off handsomely."
Kathy
Libby, Publisher
SHOWCASE
EXHIBIT FEES
N.A.B.E.
Members
One
Book in 1 Showcase:
$98.00
One
Book in 2 Showcases:
$185.00
One
Book in 3 Showcases:
$255.00
One
Book in 4 Showcases:
$330.00
SPECIAL
VALUE:
1 Book in All 5 Showcases:
Only $375.00
Additional
titles in any showcase:
Only $80.00 each per show
Non-Members
$175.00 per book per show
We
Also Showcase
Audio
& Video Cassettes
Calendars
& Datebooks
Posters,
Games & Maps
Software,
CD-ROMS, CD's &
DVDS
Special
Hot Books Prime Feature Section
Available
at The
California Book Trade Show
Only $50.00 additional
at
The California Library Assn. Show
Only $50.00
additional
Special Hot Books
Section in Above
Two Shows;
Only $80.00
Limited Amount of Space
In This
Section
So Please Sign Up Early
To Reserve Your Spot
FREE BONUS
When You Sign
Up For Three or more
Exhibits
Free
Audio CD by Al
Galasso
"Success
Secrets of Independent
Publishers"
Learn
How to Sell More Books
at
Trade Shows, through Mail
Order,
in
Special Markets, and More!
You
will hear the Marketing
Stories
of
Independent
Publishers And How
They
Sold Tens of Thousands
of
Books. Boost Your Profits!
Be Sure To Sign
Up As Soon As You Can
For The NABE Book Showcase
Exhibits
because
there is only
a
certain amount of
space
available
in each Show.
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