ABA expects that Winter Institute 2014 will reach its capacity registration in the next few days. Once registration is full, ABA will add names to an event waiting list. ABA is currently adding names to a hotel waiting list.

Winter Institute 2014 registration is now very near its limit of 500 booksellers, and ABA is encouraging any member who wants to attend to register as soon as possible. The ABA block at the host hotel, the Westin Seattle, is currently sold out, but booksellers are encouraged to add their names to the hotel waiting list.

Booksellers who are in Seattle before the start of the Winter Institute can visit the Seattle Gift Show free of charge. The wholesale trade show runs from Saturday, January 18, through Tuesday, January 21, at the Washington State Convention Center.

Registration is now open for a one-day workshop for new and prospective booksellers to be presented by the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates on Tuesday, January 21, just prior to the opening of Winter Institute 2014 in Seattle.

Just one week after registration opened for Winter Institute 2014, event registration is more than half filled. ABA is encouraging all booksellers who want to attend the January 21 – 24 event in Seattle to register online as soon as possible.

Registration for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute, to be held on January 21 - 24, 2014, at The Westin Seattle in Seattle, Washington, is now open.

The American Booksellers Association will once again be awarding the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to attend the upcoming ABA Winter Institute (Wi9) to the owner or an employee of a bookstore who submits the store’s 2012 financial data to the ABACUS-12 survey before the July 15 deadline.

At Winter Institute 8, veteran booksellers Barbara Theroux of Fact & Fiction and Bill Cusumano of Nicola’s Books joined Other Press Associate Publisher Paul Kozlowski and BEA Event Director Steve Rosato to give actionable advice on the best strategies for tackling BookExpo America.

Booksellers who visited the CAMEX trade show while they were in Kansas City for Winter Institute 8 and then placed an order of any size from an exhibiting vendor between February 24 and April 1, 2013, are entitled to a $100 rebate per ABA member store.

At a Winter Institute session that focused on how independent bookstores can form beneficial relationships with self-published authors, Paul Hanson of Village Books and Harvard Book Store’s Jeff Mayersohn shared details of their store’s successful practices, and Ron Smithson of Ingram Content Group introduced a program that will make it easy and profitable for indies to offer self-published works.