BEA 2015: Hotel ABA Filling Up, Last Call for Scholarships

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The American Booksellers Association is encouraging members to make their reservations as soon as possible for this year’s Hotel ABA at BookExpo America, the Grand Hyatt New York, located at 42nd Street and Grand Central Station. The hotel offers an exclusive rate for ABA member booksellers of $275 plus tax per night (single/double occupancy) that is only available until May 1, 2015, or until the block sells out, whichever comes first.

This year’s ABA activities at BEA will kick off at Hotel ABA at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening, May 26, with the American Booksellers for Free Expression’s Annual Children’s Book Art Auction and Reception. Tickets for the two-hour event are free for bookseller members of the ABC Group at ABA; $10 for other ABA-member booksellers; and $105 for everyone else.

The festivities at Hotel ABA will continue later that night thanks to Penguin Random House, which is inviting all ABA member booksellers to enjoy nightcaps in the hotel’s Manhattan Ballroom from 9:30 p.m. to midnight.

BEA 2015 runs from Wednesday, May 27, through Friday, May 29, at the Javits Convention Center. As in previous years, all ABA member stores can register to receive free admission to the trade show and BEA conference sessions. Questions about registration can be addressed to the VIP Concierge, Diana Press, at (203) 840-5533 or [email protected].

There may be a few BEA cash-stipend scholarships left to help ABA members who have not attended the trade show in the past two years get to this year’s event. Booksellers interested in learning more should contact Press via e-mail with the subject line “ABA Last Call Scholarships.” To qualify, applicants must be buyers or influencers of books within the bookstore and have not attended BEA for the past two years.

Register for BEA here; then reserve a room at the Grand Hyatt New York.