Workshop for New & Prospective Bookstore Owners to Be Held Prior to Winter Institute

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The workshop “Introduction to Retail Bookselling” will offer a crash course in critical aspects of bookstore ownership and management for new and prospective booksellers on Sunday, February 8, just prior to the opening of Winter Institute 2015 in Asheville, North Carolina. The workshop, sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and presented by Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman of the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates, will be held at the Grove Park Inn, the institute’s host hotel.

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 $100, 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.

All workshop registrants are eligible to attend the Winter Institute; however, attendance at the institute is not required. The Wi10 conference fee is $89 per bookseller and 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, workshop registrants should complete the hotel wait list form and enter “Introduction to Retail Bookselling” in the comment section. For travel information, visit the Wi10 mini-site on BookWeb.org and check out the Southern Hospitality Overnight Program (SHOP) on the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance website.

Winter Institute 2015 is made possible by lead sponsor Ingram Content Group and the support of publishers large and small.

For the Winter Institute’s complete schedule, visit BookWeb.org/wi2015; also watch for updates in Bookselling This Week and on the ABA Facebook page and follow the hashtag #Wi10 on Twitter.