ABFFE Auctions Offer Some of the Best of BEA

A trip to Good Morning America; signed books by Gunter Grass, Danielle Steel, Tom Robbins, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Yann Martel, and Rita Mae Brown; Book Sense Gift Cards; and trade show conference packages are just some of the items in the 2007 American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression BEA Benefit Auction. Book industry leaders have joined together to offer all these and more to support ABFFE's Free Expression efforts.

A BookExpo America tradition, the ABFFE Auction is the book industry's show of support for the Free Expression rights booksellers depend on to do business. Now, ABFFE is asking everyone in the industry to step up and show their support for Free Speech by bidding in the silent auction at the Javits Convention Center or in the online auction launching on ABFFE.com on May 23.

A full preview of this year's trade show Silent Auction will launch on abffe.com on May 21. The actual auction will be located in the main BookExpo lobby, the Crystal Palace of the Javits Center, from June 1 - 3.

This year leading companies including AAP, Baker & Taylor, Book Sense, Chronicle, Henry Holt, Hyperion, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and dozens more have contributed generously to support ABFFE's important work in defense of Free Speech.

For more information on this year's auction, or to donate, send an e-mail to [email protected].