BookExpo America!
Oct. 24th, 2003 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthros(I kid you not. They used to be the American Bookseller's Association Convention, and now they have exclamation marks. Oy. I still call it the ABA.)
Anyway. For those of you who just discovered what this wonderful institution is because I talked about it last year, here's some more info on the 2004 convention.
It'll be at McCormick Place in Chicago, possibly the most annoying gigantic convention center anywhere. Urgh. But who cares about the floorplan when the exhibition halls are filled with publishers giving away their fall lists as advance reader copies? And not just the publishers. More than 650 authors will be there officially autographing their books. Others will just be hanging around the booths of their publishers, chatting with people and signing stuff. The exhibition halls (and author autographing) will be held June 4-6th.
All of those books will be free after the cost of admission. Librarians and educators get reduced admission. It's usually around 55 or 65 dollars, depending on their projected attendance. In any case, since you often come home with some hundred or so new books, signed to you and your friends, it's quite a deal. Check it out. Find out if you can sleep on the floors of your friends in Chicago. They love you, right?
Anyway. For those of you who just discovered what this wonderful institution is because I talked about it last year, here's some more info on the 2004 convention.
It'll be at McCormick Place in Chicago, possibly the most annoying gigantic convention center anywhere. Urgh. But who cares about the floorplan when the exhibition halls are filled with publishers giving away their fall lists as advance reader copies? And not just the publishers. More than 650 authors will be there officially autographing their books. Others will just be hanging around the booths of their publishers, chatting with people and signing stuff. The exhibition halls (and author autographing) will be held June 4-6th.
All of those books will be free after the cost of admission. Librarians and educators get reduced admission. It's usually around 55 or 65 dollars, depending on their projected attendance. In any case, since you often come home with some hundred or so new books, signed to you and your friends, it's quite a deal. Check it out. Find out if you can sleep on the floors of your friends in Chicago. They love you, right?
