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Vol. 71/No. 25      June 25, 2007

 
Pathfinder books promoted at major U.S. trade show
(Pathfinder Around the World column)
 
BY JIM ROGERS  
NEW YORK—Several volunteers staffed the Pathfinder Press booth at the book industry trade show, BookExpo 2007, to promote a broad range of titles on revolutionary working-class politics to independent bookstore buyers, book distributors, and librarians. The event took place June 1-3 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center here.

Organizers estimated attendance at around 30,000, about 8,000 of whom were book buyers for stores or libraries.

The Pathfinder booth featured Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution; The First and Second Declarations of Havana: Manifestos of Revolutionary Struggle in the Americas Adopted by the Cuban People; and issue no. 12 of the magazine New International with the article “Capitalism’s Long Hot Winter Has Begun.”

Visitors took hundreds of flyers promoting these titles. More than 60 bookstore buyers and librarians from around the country signed up to be contacted by local volunteers. Several follow-up appointments are already scheduled.

There was international interest too, including from one bookstore and distributor in Trinidad and Tobago and one distributor in South Africa. Around $2,000 worth of Pathfinder books were sold or ordered at BookExpo.  
 
 
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