Trade shows/BEA

Trade shows abound for every type of business and interest and it might make sense to exhibit your book at some of them. Offfer to speak at events and get complimentary exhibit space to sell your book, if possible.

Book Expo America is the book industry’s largest annual U. S. event where publishers exhibit their next season books to retail book buyers. The event rotates around Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C, and Los Angeles, and occasionally to other major cities. It is held in late May or early June, and attendance is usually more than 30,000, with over 2,000 exhibitors.

It’s expensive to exhibit, but some self-publishers do it anyway. If you self published, you will waste your time and money exhibiting unless you already have a distributor.

If you are already an author, Book Expo America represents an opportunity for you to sign books at the publisher’s exhibit booth, have a booth of your own so you can take orders for your books from booksellers and libraries, meet a potential distributor, and forge essential media connections. If you are becoming an author, it represents the chance to introduce your book to potential publishers.

Tanyab 08:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC) | www.publishing-store.com