At last month’s Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association fall show, author Jonathan Evison (West of Here, Algonquin) inspired booksellers with a presentation of his “Ode to Bookselling.”

Here are a few scenes from last week's New England Independent Booksellers Association and Midwest Booksellers Association trade shows.

ABA staff will be at the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show next week to offer educational programming and to meet with booksellers on the show floor.

Novelist George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth storytelling series and The Moth Radio Hour on NPR, is setting out on a 14-city tour across Georgia to spread the word that the independent bookstore is an “unmatched local resource.”

ABA staff will be at the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes booksellers associations’ fall shows next week to offer educational programming and to meet with booksellers on the trade show floors.

The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association has hired Deborah Leonard, a publishing and bookselling veteran, to be the organization's new executive director.

Here are a few scenes from last week's New Atlantic, Mountains & Plains, and Southern indie trade shows.

As budget talks heated up in California this week, ABA, NCIBA, and SCIBA urged their members in the state to call Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office to express support for sales tax fairness.

ABA staff will be at the New England and Midwest booksellers associations’ fall shows next week to offer educational programming and to meet with booksellers on the trade show floors. Booksellers who stop by the ABA booth can learn about membership specials and enter their names for an extra chance to win a scholarship to the Winter Institute.

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