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How to Propose a Bookseller Workshop for a
PNBA Show 541-683-4363 - info@pnba.org |
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PNBA produces a trade show each year in the fall. We always have a full day of educational programming on the day before the exhibits open. Our Education Committee meets, reviews proposals for educational presentations aimed at retail booksellers, authors, small publishers or librarians and instructs PNBA staff as to which sessions they would like to see offered at our upcoming show. If you would like to suggest a panel or workshop for our next show, please send a one-page proposal, with a suggested title, brief outline, suggested list of presenters, a list of potential hand-outs, a list of A/V needs, and a preferred length for the presentation. (Most of our sessions are between sixty and ninety minutes long.) All proposals for the 2008 show, which will be held in Portland, OR, Monday through Wednesday, Sept 15-17, must be received in the PNBA office by FRIDAY, JUNE 27. In general, the Committee prefers presentations which offer booksellers direct instruction about issues that can immediately and directly help them in the operations of their businesses. They are usually looking for at least one Marketing session at each show. Financial and technical programs are often given high priority. Panels that include a wide-range of participants are attractive. Usually, presentations that might be perceived as promoting one business, or one company's business with booksellers, will not be well received. This year, PNBA is also soliciting proposals for sessions aimed at LIBRARIANS and AUTHORS, to be produced on TUESDAY, Sept 16, while the exhibits are open to booksellers. The "theme" of this year's show is "Working with Librarians," and many of the sessions will be chosen for their ability to encourage and enable booksellers to work with both librarians and authors more closely to promote books. The Tuesday sessions for librarians and authors should emphasize practical ways to work together. PNBA can help provide booksellers and authors to participate as panelists in these sessions. Presenters will be notified by mid-July of 2008 whether or not we will be able to accommodate your proposed session. |