Registration Underway for New/Prospective Booksellers Workshop at Winter Institute 12

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A full-day workshop offering a crash course on the essentials of opening a bookstore or buying an existing store will be held on Friday, January 27, 2017, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, prior to Winter Institute 2017. “Introduction to Retail Bookselling,” a workshop for new and prospective booksellers, is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and presented by Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman of the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates.

Workshop participants will gain an overview of the investment and payback involved in owning a bookstore, what makes for a great location, and critical aspects of a bookstore’s financial success.

Registration is open to ABA Provisional members and employees of Regular member stores and is limited to three booksellers per company. Space will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. There is a nonrefundable workshop fee of $119, which includes lunch.

Current ABA members who are interested in attending the workshop can register here; non-members can join the association and then register for the workshop.

Attendance at the Winter Institute, which runs from Friday evening, January 27, through Monday, January 30, is not required in order to register for the workshop; however, all workshop attendees are guaranteed a place at the institute. The Winter Institute 12 conference fee of $119 per person is in addition to the workshop fee.

To register for the Winter Institute, workshop registrants should send an e-mail to [email protected]; for hotel reservations, contact ABA Meetings & Planning Officer Jill Perlstein.

Winter Institute 2017 is made possible by lead sponsor Ingram Content Group and the support of publishers large and small.

For Winter Institute 12’s complete schedule, visit BookWeb.org; watch for updates in Bookselling This Week and on the ABA Facebook page and follow the hashtag #Wi12.