BTW Articles

07 Mar

Registration Opens for ABA’s Children’s Institute

Registration for the first-ever American Booksellers Association ABC Children’s Institute is now open to booksellers at all ABA member bookstores. The daylong program of learning, networking, and festivities focusing on children’s books and bookselling will take place on Wednesday, June 6, at BEA.

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08 Mar

Forum Previews: New York City and Naperville, Illinois

ABA will be hosting Booksellers Forums in New York City and Naperville, Illinois, on April 17 and 20, respectively. Each program will feature an open forum discussion and “The Best of Winter Institute 7’s Best Practices Sessions.”

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08 Mar

Owners and Staff Vote for Their Favorites

ABA is encouraging the owners and staff at all member bookstores to cast ballots for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. Voting is open till March 31 via an electronic form on BookWeb.org.

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14 Mar

Institute Offers Full-Day of Kids-Centric Programming

The Children’s Institute combines ABA’s in-depth education sessions and roundtable discussions, which are free and open to all ABA member booksellers, with a specially priced package of popular author events.

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14 Mar

Reservations Open for 2012 Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon

ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, June 5, at BEA. Reservations will be accepted from two booksellers at each ABA member store on a first-come, first-served basis.

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15 Mar

A Report on This Month’s ABA Board Meeting

The American Booksellers Association’s Board of Directors worked on a number of issues at its March 2 - 5 meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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19 Mar

Board Candidate Petition Deadline April 2

Under ABA’s Bylaws, bookstore members may submit petitions in support of additional director candidates for the 2012 elections.

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21 Mar

ABA Meets With Justice Department

On Monday, ABA Board members and staff met with representatives of the  Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., to express ABA’s support for agency model pricing of e-books in connection with the Department’s ongoing investigation of e-book pricing terms.

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21 Mar

BTW News Briefs

New distribution arrangements for Cambridge University Press and The World Almanac; the winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards and The Story Prize; the Lammy finalists

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22 Mar

ABA Day of Education on June 4 at BEA

ABA will hold its 2012 Day of Education on Monday, June 4, during BEA at New York’s Javits Convention Center. The free program, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group, is targeted at ABA bookstore and provisional members but is open to all trade show attendees.

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