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Partner Spotlight is a series designed to highlight the vendors that partner with ABA to offer discounted products, services, and business opportunities to ABA members. Each installment, we interview a different partner to learn more about their organization and why indie bookstores matter to them.

CyberHoot delivers cybersecurity awareness training that builds employee confidence through positive reinforcement, short monthly lessons, and real-world phishing simulations. CyberHoot is designed for small teams — it’s fully automated, easy to deploy, and works with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

Ghostbuyers offers “The Ghostbuyers' Guide to Becoming a Great Bookstore Buyer,” a comprehensive 27-lesson online course covering everything new or prospective buyers need to know. They also provide direct consulting and inventory management services, including frontlist and backlist buying support, opening inventory builds, and strategic consultation, for stores that want an experienced hand in the mix.

Fine Moments is a husband-and-wife-owned greeting card and paper goods company creating modern, design-forward products with humor, heart, and a refined aesthetic. Known for their foil-pressed cards and clean typography, their work has been recognized with 10 Louie Awards, honoring excellence in greeting card design. 

AbstractbyRabrams is a woman- and queer-owned stationery and gift brand that focuses on dopamine-core, subtle pride and positive affirmations. Owner Rachel Abrams designs all of the products from greeting cards to stickers, notebooks to magnetic bookmarks, reading journals, sticker books and more.

Bookselling This Week met with Rachel Abrams to learn more about AbstractbyRabrams. 

 

The Librarian’s Candle Co. offers literary-inspired candles, hand-poured by a real librarian. Made in small batches with vegan, cruelty-free, and sustainable ingredients, each candle is specially curated and paired with a book title. 

Bookselling This Week met with The Librarian’s Candle Co. founder, Andrea, to learn about the company.

Every day, thousands of booksellers worldwide save time and money as they order more of their inventory direct from the publisher using Pubeasy and Pubnet, MVB’s electronic ordering services. 

Bookselling This Week met with Jill Hendrix, a Customer Success Specialist at MVB, to learn more. 

Morgan Swank Studio is a woman-owned and operated business selling cheeky but wholesome greeting cards and gifts for people who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Bookselling This Week met with Morgan Swank to learn more. 

Punchkins is a new brand of collectible plushies that are STUFFED with personality. We offer a wide range of plush to appeal to anyone and our all new book-adjacent plush gifts and bookmarks are the perfect complement to any bookstore.

Bookselling This Week met with Dante Trasatti, Punchkins’ VP of Sales, to learn more. 

Scattered Slime, brought to you by Laura Schaefer of Scattered Books in Chappaqua, New York, produces high quality slime kits for all themes and occasions.

Bookselling This Week met with Schaefer to learn more.