We did our first Barnes and Noble book fair on Saturday and I'm wondering what kind of money other people have made. It was a ton of work on our part--but we really went all out. We set up the Community Room with school displays and products from our Expeditions. We had our Poetry Club, Step Team, choir, and band perform. We did story time. It was a rainy day with tons of people in the store but since you're not allowed to "solicit" people already in the store, it was very frustrating. I'm assuming we didn't make much money at all. It was fun and great publicity for our school, but I don't think any of the shoppers knew why we were there.

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I was curious about this as well. We just did ours yesterday and it was a lot of work. We offered door prizes and put the entry form on the book fair slip. That way if anyone who wanted to win the door prizes, (an i-pod, an American Girl and one of those big Lego sets) we would get credit for the sales. We were allowed to put a board up displaying the prizes with the entries right there the day of the fair. We put entries out all over town before the event too. Short of going door to door, I don't know how we could have done more. The surprising thing is that of the $27,000 in sales the store had yesterday, we only accounted for $5,400 of those. When I looked at the numbers, it is exactly 20% of the total. While the company says that we can earn money on 100% of the sales as long as people either say the name of the school or hand in the sheet, I wonder if there is a cap in the system that only allows schools to earn money on 20% of the total sales. How have other people done with this fundraiser?