The TokyoPop and Viz booths usually have stacks of several different free paperback samplers featuring excerpts of some of their newer manga. CMX, the DC Comics manga imprint, occasionally produces these samplers, too, although in the past they've handed them out to attendees at the CMX panel instead of leaving them lying around for anyone to take in the already-crowded DC booth.
TokyoPop usually sells manga at their booth for five books for the price of four, which comes out to a 20% discount if all five books are the same price. Cold Cut Distributors, whose booth is traditionally attached to the indy comics creators' sales collective Indy Island (usually recognizable from a distance by the large fake palm tree in the middle), sells overstock and allegedly damaged books (I didn't notice anything visibly wrong with some of the stuff I bought there last year) at some price per pound which usually works out to more than 25% off the cover price.
Discounts and Free Stuff
TokyoPop usually sells manga at their booth for five books for the price of four, which comes out to a 20% discount if all five books are the same price. Cold Cut Distributors, whose booth is traditionally attached to the indy comics creators' sales collective Indy Island (usually recognizable from a distance by the large fake palm tree in the middle), sells overstock and allegedly damaged books (I didn't notice anything visibly wrong with some of the stuff I bought there last year) at some price per pound which usually works out to more than 25% off the cover price.
Margaret