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Minnesota Bookseller Wins Grand Prize Hotel ABA Stay
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Amy Oelkers of Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the grand prize winner of a free four-night hotel stay at Hotel ABA — the Grand Hyatt New York, located at 42nd Street and Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan — courtesy of BookExpo America.
Fifty-five additional prizes were awarded to ABA members, also courtesy of BEA, including:
5 second place prizes of three free hotel nights
15 third place prizes of two free hotel nights
35 fourth place prizes of one free hotel night
Every ABA member store in good standing who booked a room at Hotel ABA by April 7 was entered into the random drawing for free hotel nights. BEA created the prizes to help reduce ABA members’ expenses to attend the show.
Booksellers staying at the Grand Hyatt will receive a Welcome Bag filled with advance reading copies of some of the hottest books of the show, and the hotel will be the site of parties open exclusively to all ABA member booksellers, whether or not they are guests of the hotel.
The Grand Hyatt’s special nightly rate for single and double rooms of $265, plus tax (currently 14.75 percent New York State and City tax per room per night) and a $3.50 per night occupancy fee, is available to ABA members until midnight EDT on Friday, May 2, unless the block sells out sooner. The rate covers stays from Monday, May 26, through Sunday, June 1, 2014.
This year’s ABA programming will take place over all four days of the show, from Wednesday, May 28, to Saturday, May 31, at the Javits Convention Center. For complete details, visit the mini-BEA site on BookWeb.org. The ABA Town Hall and Annual Membership Meeting will be on Thursday, May 30.
ABA member booksellers are entitled to complimentary badges for entrance to the trade show. Booksellers can register — and purchase tickets for BEA’s Author Breakfasts — on the BookExpoAmerica website. To receive free badges, booksellers must provide an ABA member number. (If you forgot to register as an ABA member, contact ABA’s Member Relationship Manager.)