Dear Bookseller:
The list of exhibitors registered for the Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Book Exposition (CIROBE) 2007 reflects the increasing scope and importance of the bargain book industry. In the thirteenth years since the first CIROBE, retail bookselling has undergone significant changes, becoming much more competitive and complex. In spite of this environment, many booksellers have expanded and increased their business by selling bargain books.
Bargain books present myriad opportunities for booksellers to offer their customers a unique title at a unique price. The challenge for bargain book buyers is to be in the right place at the right time. Remainders, due to their finite nature, are not available to everyone in an endless supply. Promotional books quite often follow a similar pattern, requiring timely ordering and delivery (to secure stock). White sales, by definition, are a one-time deal.
Competing in today's bookselling environment requires sound judgment, hard work and good timing. Waiting for bargain book catalogues in the mail is simply not enough. CIROBE puts the key elements for successful bargain book buying together in one place: hundreds of wildly different exhibitors (both domestic and international), a purchasing-directed environment, and the year's best remainders, promotional books, and white sales.
Not surprisingly, CIROBE has grown larger and more complex along with the industry. Exhibitors at CIROBE display all kinds of published product: books, audio, video and software. In addition to all of the major American, Canadian, and British remainder and promotional companies, an impressive number of university presses and an ever-changing group of trade publishers are on hand to offer a heady mixture of selected backlist titles at a one-time only sale price. There are a vast number of titles offered at CIROBE that will never be available again.
CIROBE is the best possible venue for this ever-changing market. No other time or location in the world gives booksellers access to more titles and/or sources of supply. If bargain book selling is a factor in your company's growth or survival, you need to be at CIROBE 2008.
Sincerely, CIROBE
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