Events

Booksellers should start planning what to wear to the ABC Children’s Institute opening reception and costume party. Prizes will be awarded for a variety of categories, including best villain, best fierce female, best ensemble costume, and more.

The Spring Forums, featuring the ABA education session “A Year of Bookstore Profitability,” will be held April 23 in St. Louis, Missouri, and April 25 in Evergreen, Colorado.

All staff at ABA member stores are invited to cast their ballots to choose the winners of the 2018 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. The voting deadline is May 2.

Following the American Booksellers Association’s announcement of a new code of conduct for all association meetings and events, the code has been posted on the Governance page on BookWeb.

More than 500 indie booksellers across the country will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 28. Here’s what some of them have planned.

The Spring Forums, featuring the ABA education session “A Year of Bookstore Profitability,” will be held April 12 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and April 17 in Detroit, Michigan.

Booksellers with questions about selling books and marketing their stores online are invited to visit with a member of the IndieCommerce team in the ABA Member Lounge at BookExpo 2018.

Booksellers heading to New Orleans for the sixth annual Children’s Institute can attend sessions on branding, opening a new store, creating LGBTQ youth programs, marketing STEM titles, and Edelweiss.

This year, American Booksellers Association members will have special red lanyards that will identify them as independent booksellers.

Indie bookstores can offer the free titles from Libro.fm to their customers on April 28 as a thank-you gift for supporting their local bookstore.

Sponsored by the ABC Children’s Group at ABA and the Children’s Book Council, the auction will honor Ashley Bryan and feature the announcement of the Children’s and Teen Choice Book Award winners.

Booksellers can register now to attend the Celebration of Bookselling, Meet the Editor, Publicists Speed Dating, and ABC/CBC Speed Dating at BookExpo, which will be held May 30–June 1 in New York City.