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The owners and staff of all American Booksellers Association member stores can help formulate the association's 2007 education program through participation in the 2006 ABA Education Survey. Member survey responses are being compiled to provide guidance to the bookseller volunteers on ABA's Education Task Force who will convene this fall to plan the association's 2007 education offerings.

The American Booksellers Association's Nominating Committee, chaired by Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, is searching for qualified candidates to serve on the ABA Board of Directors. Any ABA member may submit nominations for board directors.

The American Booksellers Association today announced the opening of registration for its Second Annual Winter Institute, to be held in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday and Friday, February 1 and 2, 2007. ABA member booksellers can now register for the Winter Institute's two full days of free programming, as well as make hotel reservations, through the association's trade website, BookWeb.org.

The 2006 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) Fall Trade Show will be held from Saturday, September 16, through Sunday, September 17, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, at the Valley Forge Convention Center.

The New England Booksellers Association's (NEBA) 33rd Annual Trade Show will be held on Friday, September 15, through Sunday, September 17, at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island. This year's special events include the NEBA Awards Luncheon, a Children's Books Author/Illustrator Dinner, and NEBA's Dinner With Authors.

The owners and staff of all American Bookseller Association member stores can help formulate the association's 2007 education program through participation in the 2006 ABA Education Survey. Member survey responses are being compiled to provide guidance to the bookseller volunteers on ABA's Education Task Force who will convene this fall to plan the association's 2007 education offerings.

The American Booksellers Association's Nominating Committee, chaired by Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, is searching for qualified candidates to serve on the ABA Board of Directors.

The Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) will welcome stores from Texas and Oklahoma (previously members of the disbanded Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association) to its Fall Trade Show, to be held from Thursday, September 14, through Sunday, September 17, at the Marriott Denver Tech Center in Denver.

The American Booksellers Association and Reed Exhibitions today announced several key details about BookExpo America 2007, which will be held at New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center from Friday, June 1, through Sunday, June 3.

The 2006 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Fall Trade Show, which will be held from Thursday, September 7, through Sunday, September 10, in Orlando, Florida, at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, will feature an array of educational offerings and author events.

The American Booksellers Association is asking the owners and staff of all member stores to participate in its 2006 Education Survey. The results of the survey will provide guidance to the bookseller volunteers on ABA's Education Task Force as they begin formulating plans for the association's 2007 education offerings.

The owners and staff of ABA member stores who visit the American Booksellers Association booth at any of the nine regional association fall trade shows will have the chance to win prizes, compliments of ABA and BookExpo America (BEA). In a random drawing at each show, ABA will award a color inkjet printer. The nine printer winners will then be entered into a grand prize drawing to win airfare to, and up to a three-night hotel stay at, the association's 2007 Winter Institute.

The American Booksellers Association's Nominating Committee, chaired by Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, is searching for qualified candidates to serve on the ABA Board of Directors.

Last week, in a series of meetings arranged by the American Booksellers Association, U.S. publishers and wholesalers had the opportunity to learn about batch.co.uk, a service of the Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom and Ireland, that is designed to help reduce overhead in the supply chain by providing a single, consolidated payment solution.

Every week dozens of booksellers seek and share advice and information about bookselling and the book industry on BookWeb's Idea Exchange Forums. Open to the owners and staff of all ABA member bookstores, the forums are a great place to ask for input from other booksellers and to bring comments and questions to the attention of the ABA Board and staff.

Topics under discussion this week in the Bookseller-to-Bookseller Forum include: