EXHIBITOR NEWS

PFB is a Book and Literary Arts Festival for everyone in the publishing, writing, book and art loving community. A great line up of literary events, performances, interdisciplinary workshops, art exhibition and an exceptional trade show of BC and Canadian booksellers and publishers on Saturday March 15th from 9:00am-4pm at Victoria Arts Connection.

PFB 2008 promises to be another fabulous event and we are getting geared up now! For more general information about the festival please follow the links in the menu and and to see what all the fuss is about check out last year's programs and our 39 exhibitors in the PFB 2007 pages.
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2007 - Survey Results
We had overwhelmingly positive responses from our exhibitors in 2007 as well as some excellent suggestions for improvement that we are acting on. Many exhibitors commented that they appreciated the support of our volunteers on the day of the event and that the space and organization were good to excellent. The majority of exhibitors expressed an interest in returning so make PFB Web Statssure to get your registrations in as soon as possible!






Exhibitor Information


Book your booth securely online through our new PayPal system.
Main floor booths available are $78.75 including GST.

We have also updated the floor plan so make sure to download and review this.

New Events and Opportunities
We will once again host the invitational opening reception and networking social on Friday March 14 from 7-10pm. In addition, we will be hosting an off-site party on Saturday March 15th after the major festival events. Location TBA and tickets will be sold in advance and can be ordered on the registration form for exhibitors. Sunday March 16th from 1-4pm is our Group Book Launch Event - come out and celebrate with authors and publishers. This special event will also feature the launch of PFB Press's first Youth Anthology, a collection of poetry, short fiction and creative non fiction by youth in British Columbia.
Promotion of Exhibitors
News travels fast and as you will see from the web stats graph below The Pacific Festival of the Book traffic on the web site increased over 8x in one quarter with over 18,000 page loads!

Exhibitors are promoted through email press releases, on the website and listed in the program. Further spotlights can be turned on your business or organization by helping to sponsor events. Check out the sponsorship page for more info.



Exhibitor Book Shelf:
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Download Registration form
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Download Floor Plan
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NEWS

Congratulations to Whitlands Publishing for winnng a West Regional Category Gold IPPY (Indep. Publisher Award) for their book, Loyalty's Haven, Bk 3 in Victoria Chronicles. This is the most prestigious award for Independent Publishers. Check out the press release on their web site: www.whitlands.com/pr.html

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CHECK OUT VANTAGE POINT! A new online magazine of a magazine of critical discourse on the media arts created by Media Net. Submission deadlines are ongoing. ___________________________  The CODEX International Book Fair & Symposium is happening again! February 8-11, 2009 University of California, Berkeley