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MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association

Marketing Programs

Below is a list of upcoming opportunities offered by the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association to help you market your books.



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Baltimore Book Festival

The Baltimore Book Festival will be held this year from September 25-26, 2010. MBPA has reserved a booth to display member books. The cost of registration is $15 per book for members, and $30 per book for non-members. The deadline to register is September 10.

New this year: For the first time this year, MBPA will be running a trial of selling books for members. Members may send up to five copies of each title for MBPA to have available to sell. (Optional). See the registration form for details.

Those registering to display books may also optionally register for a time slot in the booth, that can be used for autographing, selling books, or giving presentations. See registration form for details.

Registrants may also send marketing items, such as postcards, bookmarks, etc., to include in the giveaway bags. One item per book registered * 200 copies of each item. Additional items may be included for an additional fee.

How to register:

  1. Download and print out the registration form.
  2. Pay using the Paypal button below or send a check made out to MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association
  3. Send registration form, check or Paypal receipt, books and marketing items, to arrive by September 10, to:
Sheila Ruth
Imaginator Press
6400 Baltimore National Pike
Suite 170A-194
Baltimore, MD 21228




 




 

Collingswood Book Festival

The Collingswood Book Festival will be held this year in Saturday, October 2, 2010. MBPA has reserved a booth to display member books. The cost of registration is $5 per book for members, and $10 per book for non-members. The deadline to register is September 23.

Registrants may also send marketing items, such as postcards, bookmarks, etc., to include in the giveaway bags. One item per book registered * 80 copies of each item. Additional items may be included for an additional fee.

How to register:

  1. Download and print out the registration form.
  2. Pay using the Paypal button below or send a check made out to MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association
  3. Send registration form, check or Paypal receipt, books and marketing items, to arrive by September 23, to:
Sheila Ruth
Imaginator Press
6400 Baltimore National Pike
Suite 170A-194
Baltimore, MD 21228

Other Regional Book Festivals

Our Discussion Forum contains a new list of other regional consumer street festivals and book fairs. MBPA finances won't permit us to represent the group at all of these, but your board is monitoring the discussion (and our email) to see if there is strong member interest in any of these other exhibit opportunities. If so, we may consider having a presence there, so speak up and let us know where you'd like to be! And if it turns out we just can't make it to a show you'd really like to be at, there's no reason you can't team up with a few of our other members to reserve a booth for yourselves to try out the show. Any reports we receive of high performance in sales, reader interest or both will garner serious attention from us in deciding our show participation commitment for next year.

Publishers Tip Sheets

The publishers tip sheet below has many good suggestions on partnering with booksellers.

Publishers Tip Sheet on Partnering with Booksellers


 
 
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