In addition to the many programs ABA offers its members, the Association has developed affinity partnerships with vendors that offer discounted products, services, and business opportunities.

AAA Label  • Above the Treeline • Bank of America Credit Card Processing • Chico Bag Company • Constant Contact Email Newsletters • IMG Merchant Services Auditing • On Demand Books (Espresso Book Machine) • Alibris/Monsoon Commerce Solutions • PartnerShip • W.G. Ellerkamp

AAA Label

AAA Label is the exclusive supplier of ABA-designed low-tack book stickers, including black-and-white designs that promote “Staff Pick,” “Autographed Copy,” and “Local Author.” AAA Label is also the official provider of Indie Next List stickers. ABA members save up to 80% off custom low-tack sticker rolls. Contact Laura Moore for more information (laura@aaalabelinc.com) or request a custom quote at http://www.aaalabelinc.net/estimate.html. (Please note that quantity discounts are applied after checkout is complete.)

Above the Treeline

Above the Treeline creates web-based products that help booksellers connect with books. Treeline Analytics Inventory Management System is a web-based system designed to help bookstores improve finances by optimizing inventory selection and turns. Among its many benefits, it allows booksellers to spot sales trends and to measure store performance. The set-up fee is waived for ABA members setting up new accounts, and all ABA members receive 10% off the standard monthly fee. Some key benefits of Treeline Analytics include:

• Treeline Top Sellers: See bestselling titles that may be missing from inventory, top-selling titles from across all independent bookstore subscribers, and present and historical stock positions on titles.
• Store Performance: Booksellers can compare store data with other anonymous stores and gauge strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for change.
• Title Lists: Subscribers can view title lists submitted by suppliers or create their own.
• Category Comparisons: Subscribers can evaluate a category's performance over time and compare it to other stores, and review sales and inventory trends to evaluate inventory efficiency.
• Publisher Partnership Program: Retailers can choose to participate with all, some, or none of ATL's publisher/supplier customers.

ATL also offers Edelweiss Interactive Publisher Catalogs, an online, interactive, cross-publisher catalog service that supplements or replaces traditional hard-copy publisher catalogs. For a summary and details about Edelweiss, visit the ATL website. To learn more about Above the Treeline tools contact Joe Foster (jfoster@abovethetreeline.com). For Edelweiss inquiries, write to edelweiss@abovethetreeline.com.

Bank of America Credit Card Processing

The Bank of America Merchant Services Program offers discounted payment processing on most major credit cards, with no annual membership fee, no monthly minimums, and no lock-in merchant agreements. For more information, ABA members should contact Valerie Ferguson at Valerie.Ferguson@bankofamericamerchant.com or (502) 315-3117, or call a Merchant Services Account Executive at (888) 317-5402.

Chico Bag Company

ChicoBag provides fun, unique and eco-friendly bags in all shapes and sizes with various fabric options including the ChicoBag rePETe, which is manufactured from 99% recycled content. Every ChicoBag features an attached carrying pouch with clip for taking the bag anywhere. Customers love that they can fit a ChicoBag into their pocket, purse or clipped to their backpack, so they can always have a bag on hand. When open, ChicoBags are full-size shopping bags, totes and other bag styles that are incredibly durable, machine washable and come with a manufacturer warranty.

Member bookstores save 5% off and a free display on their first standard order of ChicoBags.
Member bookstores save 10% on all custom printed ChicoBags with your bookstore’s logo.

For more information, please see this flyer. You may also contact Crystal Viars at ChicoBag at 503-717-2158, or email crystal@chicobag.com.

Constant Contact Email Newsletters

Constant Contact makes communicating with customers easy and measurable. Constant Contact manages every aspect of an email campaign, from creation to mailing to customer support. ABA Regular bookstore members receive an annual rebate based on average monthly usage.

For more information about the benefits of using Constant Contact, refer to this two page PDF that reviews how permission-based email can help you to stay connected to your customers. This one page customer support PDF provides tips and support designed for ABA members.

To sign up for the program and take advantage of the ABA rebate, go directly to the Constant Contact website via this link. (Note – this link must be used in order to participate in the rebate program.)

IMG Merchant Services Auditing

IMG is an independent merchant services auditing and consulting firm that assists businesses in lowering their monthly fees. It is not a bank or a credit card processing company. IMG will analyze a bookstore’s credit card processing fees with the aim of restructuring excessive fees with the store’s current bank or, if necessary, a new one, to achieve the best possible rate. It then monitors the store’s monthly statements to ensure that rate is maintained. IMG is compensated with a percentage of the monthly savings. IMG has discounted its fee percentage exclusively for ABA members. ABA members enter into relationship directly with IMG. For a free, no risk consultation, call IMG directly at 212-257-6106 and mention that you are an ABA member.

On Demand Books (Espresso Book Machine)

ABA bookstore members can buy or lease the On Demand Books (ODB) Espresso Book Machine and receive a 20% discount off the up-front software license fee until August 1, 2013. (The regular license fee is $25,000; the fee for ABA bookstore members is $20,000.) The patented EBM and its EspressNet® software system link to a vast network of content, enabling the instant distribution of books on demand at the point of sale. With the push of a button, the technology prints (in any language), binds, and trims a bookstore-quality, perfect-bound paperback book with full-color cover, all in minutes. The environmentally friendly technology eliminates shipping, returns, and the pulping of unwanted books.

By offering retail-level on-demand printing, indie bookstores can explore new custom publishing business models and more quickly and efficiently meet consumer demand for books. Booksellers interested in learning more should email On Demand Books' Justin Beatty.

Alibris/Monsoon Commerce Solutions

Alibris/Monsoon Commerce Solutions simplifies the challenging business of selling products profitably in multiple online marketplaces. Intelligent and automated software tools allow users to efficiently manage, price, and sell their inventory. By signing up through ABA, members receive an exclusive discount. The program overview is availible in this PDF flyer.

Because Alibris/Monsoon software is installed on the store computer, data is safe and under store control. Alibris/Monsoon operates with the highest standards of confidentiality and security, so stores can be assured that their valuable inventory and pricing data will never be seen by your competitors.

Alibris/Monsoon software solutions are ideal for sellers of used books, signed copies, or first editions who want to better manage and maintain their accounts. Follow this link for more information or to sign up to become an Alibris/Monsoon seller. The "Gold" program sign-up fee is waived for ABA members who use the promo code ABASAVER.

PartnerShip

PartnerShip®, the endorsed shipping management provider of ABA, helps you save on every shipment you send and receive. This program is available to all ABA members with no obligations and no minimum shipping requirements. Members who enroll in the ABA Shipping Program save on select FedEx® services.

Small Package and Freight Shipping

• Save up to 31%* on select FedEx Express® services
• Save up to 30% on select FedEx Ground® services
• Save up to 10% on select FedEx Home Delivery® services

ABA members also save on less-than-truckload (LTL) freight shipments with leading national and regional carriers when arranged through PartnerShip.

• Save at least 70% on LTL freight shipments

Visit PartnerShip.com/07ABA for complete program information and to enroll in the free ABA Shipping Program. If you have any questions, please call PartnerShip at 800-599-2902, or e-mail sales@PartnerShip.com.

*Includes a bonus 5% online processing discount. Full details available at www.PartnerShip.com/07ABA/FedExdiscounts.

Also from PartnerShip: Save on select FedEx Office® Services

PartnerShip also offers savings on select FedEx Office services.

• Save 20% on select print and copy services, both black and white in color
• Save 10% on signs, graphics, and select finishing services

Visit PartnerShip.com/07ABA for complete program information and to enroll in the free ABA Shipping Program. If you have any questions, please call PartnerShip at 800-599-2902 or email sales@PartnerShip.com.

W.G. Ellerkamp

Supplier of IndieBound natural kraft recycled bags, with or without store customization, as well as reusable totes, biodegradable plastic bags, and specialized gift wrap for bookstores. ABA members receive a 25% discount on shipping.

Biodegradable Plastic Bags

These environmentally-friendly plastic bags offer an inexpensive alternative to paper bags. 

Recycled Paper Shopping Bags

Natural kraft recycled bags with IndieBound designs. Optional customization with your store logo is available.

• Recycled Buy Local Shopping Bags Natural kraft recycled bags with WG Ellerkamp's exclusive Buy Local designs. Optional customization with your store logo is available.
• Laminated Reusable Totes Our newly designed, better-quality, more colorful Laminated Reusable Totes with IndieBound designs and Buy Local information in the gussets. Optional customization with you store logo is available.
• Special Bookstore Gift Wraps Imported directly from Switzerland or specially ordered domestically, these papers are fantastic! Hundreds of other papers are available as well.  All ABA members receive 15% of gift wrap purchases. 
• Gift Card Folders A 3½" x 4¾" handmade paper folder designed for your store’s gift cards ….or anything else. Optional customization with you store logo is available.
• Graeham Owens Paper Bookmarks and Journals  Designed exclusively for ABA, these handmade products feature popular IndieBound spirit lines. 

Order from W.G. Ellerkamp  Contact: Jack Ellerkamp, jack@wgellerkamp.com or call 800-805-0012 or 603-924-4000. Remember to mention that you are a member of ABA.