For your convenience, book fair tickets online

We've mentioned this before but it certainly bears repeating. Through the miracle of the Internet, you can now buy your tickets to the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair online.

For the practical minded among us, this is quite a convenience. It means, in real terms, that you don't have to stand in line at the box office to buy your tickets. One less obstacle to getting to what you're really coming for -- the books.

The folks at Eventbrite make it really quite easy to buy your tickets. Their website is easy to navigate and everything is quite clear. What's more, they have it set up so that you get immediate notification via email, and you get your tickets. You can print them out and bring them with you or leave them on your phone and we'll scan it when you arrive. Ain't technology wonderful?

We started this a couple of years ago and it's really amazing how many more people are buying their tickets online than did that first year. Eventbrite is probably a huge company by now. They're based in San Francisco, where all great technology-based ideas come from (are you an Uber Taxi fan?).

Back when we were setting all this up we had an occasion to call out there for some advice. The company seemed pretty tiny then. You had the impression of a few tech-savvy folks getting together to and creating this great idea for helping small venues deal with ticket sales. Don't think they even had a receptionist or a phone operator. The woman who answered the phone had all the answers as if she had been working on the software herself. (She might have been.) Think she might have said that she was the only one in the office. Everyone else had gone to lunch.

Anyway, we've been pleased that so many of you have decided that buying tickets online is the way to go. You may know that we've set up a discount code "saveabuck" so that if you enter it you'll save most of the service fee, plus you get the tickets immediately. Don't use the quotation marks. Just enter the code as one word. There's a link in the column on the right on this blog. Click where it says BUY TICKETS NOW. You'll be taken to our page on Eventbrite.

If it works for you, we hope you'll go online and get your tickets. If not, we're happy to accommodate you at the box office. We hope you won't have to wait in line too long. We'll get you in the door as soon as we can.

It's getting closer. We'll see you at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair.

You can buy Book Fair tickets right now! No waiting.

BUY TICKETS NOW! You can buy your tickets to the 33rd Florida Antiquarian Book Fair right now online. Buy now and have no waiting in the box office line. What's more you can get a discount by using the promotional code "saveabuck" (without the quotation marks). Here's the link.

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Here's how to avoid waiting at the box office

Now you can buy tickets online at Eventbrite for the 2014 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. Tickets are $10 (plus a small service fee) for the Friday Night Preview and they are good for all weekend. You also can buy individual day tickets for Saturday or Sunday. They are $6 each (plus as small service fee). It is the convenience of already having your tickets with no need to wait in line at the box office. The time you save can be devoted to looking at all the wonderful books on display. And since you’re reading this, you can save a dollar on each ticket by entering the promotional code “saveabuck” (without the quotation marks). So buy your tickets today and have no waiting in the box office line.

Give 'em an experience they'll never forget

For the book lovers on your Christmas list, here's the perfect gift idea. Don't give 'em a book. Give 'em an experience they'll never forget: a weekend at the 2014 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair. It's an adventure.

Consider this. At the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, more than 100 top-notch antiquarian book dealers from all over the country converge in St. Petersburg for one weekend. For the book lover, that's Paradise. Your book lover can browse beautiful, rare, unique, and amazing volumes that go for thousands of dollars or delicious reading copies of favorite classics that cost only a few dollars.

Here's the best part for you, the generous gift giver. Right now there's a Holiday Gift Special promotion available online at Eventbrite that lets you purchase four Weekend Pass tickets for the price of two. That means you can create an event for your book lovers that is remarkably reasonable. For what you would pay later on for just two tickets ($20), you can get four tickets. That's two for you and your best book lover, and two more for other book lovers in your life. What you're giving here is not just some tickets to an event. You're giving a special weekend of quality time spent in pursuit of joy!

Now what are you going to do with all that money you save? Well, you could make one of those gifts extra special by putting some spending money in the envelope, too. Something toward those incredible treasures you're bound to find at the book fair. Just sayin'

Just click on the link to Eventbrite where you can purchase tickets and you'll have this plan in the works without ever leaving your computer screen. Your book fair adventure starts here.

Book fair tickets are available online

Tickets for the 2014 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair can be purchased online now.

For a limited time, you can take advantage of a special offer that gets you tickets at a remarkably low price.

Just in time for the season of gift-giving, we have the Holiday Gift Special. What a great opportunity! You can purchase four Weekend Pass tickets for the price of two. That means you can buy the tickets you were going to buy anyway to go to the book fair and get two more tickets free to give to other book lovers you know.

Tickets for the entire weekend normally cost $10 each but with this deal you can get four tickets for the price of two. Wrap up three of them as gifts and you've made great progress on your Christmas list.

When you give tickets to the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair, you're giving so much more than admission. You're giving a weekend experience that you and your friends will always remember. Plus, when you and  your friends discover the remarkable treasures that await at the book fair, you've given delight for the ages.

Who knew a simple, very astute purchase on your part could give so much?

Here's a link to Eventbrite where you can purchase tickets.