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12 Feb

Winter 2004 ABA Board Meeting Report

The American Booksellers Association Board of Directors, senior staff, and representatives from the regional booksellers associations held meetings at the DoubleTree Grand Biscayne Bay in Miami, from Thursday, February 5, to Sunday, February 8.

During the meetings, the ABA Board:

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12 Feb

A Bookstore Odyssey

On Monday, February 9, ABA Communications Manager Kristen Gilligan and BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos set out on a weeklong tour of East Coast bookstores. Here's a report on their adventures to date.

By Len Vlahos

Day 1 -- February 9

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a five-day trip
Leaving from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship

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11 Feb

California Site of Three Booksellers Forums Next Week

ABA's forum tour, which provides booksellers across the country with the opportunity to meet with representatives of the ABA Board of Directors and senior staff to ask questions, express opinions, and hear about the association's activities and plans for the future, will be going to California next week.

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05 Feb

ABA Programming at BEA 2004

In an effort to give booksellers more time to make plans for BookExpo America 2004, to be held June 2 - 6 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, ABA is providing below a preliminary programming schedule for the convention.

Highlights include:

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05 Feb

Calling All Booksellers: Time to Submit Numbers to ABACUS Year Two

In a recent e-mail sent out to all ABA-member bookstores, ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz strongly encouraged bookstores to submit their fiscal 2003 financial statement numbers to the "ABACUS Survey -- Year 2."

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05 Feb

Reminder to Vendors: Submit Your Free Directory Listing By February 13!

On Wednesday, February 4, an e-mail was sent out to nonbook vendors who previously had a listing in the Booksellers Resource Directory (formerly the Source Guide). Please note that the deadline for submitting a listing to the directory has been extended to February 13.

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04 Feb

ABA Booksellers Forum to Be Held in Washington, D.C.

On Wednesday, February 25, in conjunction with the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA), ABA is holding its Bookseller Forum at Olsson's Books & Records in downtown Washington, D.C. Olsson’s is centrally located, with convenient access by car or public transportation.

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04 Feb

Patriot Act Petition Campaign Gathering Steam

Since early January -- when ABA launched a petition campaign to gather signatures of bookstore customers who support amending Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act -- booksellers have been actively collecting signatures toward an ABA-member goal of garnering at least one million signatures. ABA is now urging booksellers who have yet to join the petition campaign to do so, and is also strongly encouraging those booksellers who are participating in the campaign and are sending back signed petition lists to keep collecting signatures.

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04 Feb

Reminder: ABA to Hold Three Forums in California This Month

This month, ABA will be holding three Booksellers Forums in California: On Wednesday, February 18, in conjunction with the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) at its offices in The Presidio in San Francisco; on Friday, February 20, at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena; and on Saturday, February 21, at Four Points Sheraton Hotel in San Diego. The Pasadena and San Diego forums will be held in conjunction with the Southern California Booksellers Association (SCBA). Representing ABA at the forums will be CEO Avin Mark Domnitz and COO Oren Teicher.

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04 Feb

ABA Offers Non-Members a Special Invitation to Join ABA

On Friday, January 23, ABA President Ann Christophersen, of Women & Children First in Chicago, sent out a letter to non-ABA member booksellers, inviting them to join the association. The letter explains that if non-member booksellers join ABA in 2004, the association will pay their 2004 regional association dues. In addition, the letter states the new members will receive one free admission badge to BookExpo America 2004 and will also receive a free subscription to the electronic and hard copy editions of Publishers Weekly for one year, courtesy of ABA.

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02 Feb

ABA Board & Regional Meeting to Convene in Miami This Weekend

The American Booksellers Association Board of Directors will be meeting at the DoubleTree Grand Hotel in Miami, Florida, this week, from Thursday, February 5 - Sunday, February 8. In addition, the Board will be meeting with Regional Associations on Friday, February 6.

For a list of ABA Board members, go to http://www.bookweb.org/aba/53.html. For a list of Regional Associations, go to http://www.bookweb.org/orgs/286.html.

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29 Jan

Calling All Vendors! Get Your Free Listing in the Booksellers' Resource Directory

ABA is asking all nonbook vendors of products and services that would be of interest to independent booksellers to submit data for a free listing in the new Booksellers' Resource Directory (formerly the Source Guide). The directory is a valuable online resource for booksellers looking for vendors of new sidelines, office supplies, display fixtures, computer hardware and software, design services, and much more.

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27 Jan

ABA Booksellers Forums -- California Here We Come

ABA's Booksellers Forum tour heads to California in February. The first of three forums will be held in conjunction with the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) at its offices in The Presidio in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 18. This will be followed by forums at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena on Friday, February 20, and at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in San Diego on Saturday, February 21, both in conjunction with the Southern California Booksellers Association (SCBA).

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27 Jan

North Carolina Forum Postponed Due to Weather

The ABA Booksellers Forum scheduled for Wednesday, January 28, at McIntyre's Fine Books in Pittsboro, North Carolina, was cancelled due to snowy weather conditions up and down the East Coast. "The location of the forum required that booksellers would have to drive, and given the icy weather conditions blanketing the area, we reluctantly decided to cancel the forum and plan to reschedule sometime in the spring," said ABA COO Oren Teicher.

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22 Jan

ABA's President Talks to Booksellers About Proposed Changes to the 76

The following letter from ABA President Ann Christophersen of Women and Children First in Chicago was sent to booksellers via e-mail on Wednesday, January 21.

Dear Bookseller:

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About ABA

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