ABA’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute will feature a record-breaking number of new and established authors.

Booksellers who haven’t already scheduled appointments to meet with book industry service providers at the Winter Institute’s Consultation Station are encouraged to do so soon.

With Winter Institute event registration and the Crystal Gateway Marriott booked to capacity, ABA is urging registered booksellers who are no longer planning to attend and those with hotel reservations that are no longer needed to contact ABA’s Member Relationship Managers as soon as possible.

ABA recently welcomed five more publishers as Winter Institute sponsors. 

Thirty-one booksellers have been awarded publisher-sponsored scholarships to the ABA’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group.

ABA urges booksellers to schedule conversations with book industry service providers who will be at the Winter Institute's Consultation Station on Friday afternoon, January 21.

Booksellers who are registered for ABA’s Winter Institute are invited to sign up now for a merchandising tour of Washington, D.C.’s Revolution Cycles.

ABA has announced the winners of two scholarships to the Sixth Annual Winter Institute – the Joe Drabyak Frontline Fellowship, sponsored by Workman Publishing, and the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship, awarded by ABA to a bookseller at a store that submitted financial data to the 2010 ABACUS Survey.

This week, ABA provides a full update of the schedule for the Sixth Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group, to run from January 19 - 21, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

The Wi6 session “Linked by Passion: Growing Sales Through Local Retail Partnerships” will examine the positive marketing and sales potential of cross-promotions through the insights and experiences of an indie bookseller and that of the branding and identity firm Brains on Fire.