Industry Voices

ABA CEO Oren Teicher shares his recent experience as a holiday helper at Politics & Prose and encourages booksellers to ramp up marketing efforts to capture post-holiday e-book sales.

In response to Amazon’s price app promo, Betsy Burton of The King’s English penned a Letter to the Editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. She’s encouraging other booksellers to do the same in order to capitalize on the recent media attention to focus on why indies matter.

On Monday, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Richard Russo, who, along with several other bestselling authors, criticized Amazon’s new price check app.

At this year’s National Book Awards ceremony, fiction winner Jesmyn Ward thanked Mississippi independent booksellers for helping Salvage the Bones find its readership. Here, Ward talks about the role of indies in advocating for her work, her Mississippi background, and her upcoming memoir.

How to maneuver your way through the holidays with balloons, parades, great visuals, and some friendly visits from your congressional representatives.

ABA CEO Oren Teicher shares an update about some new ABA tools as well as other relevant information that the association hopes will help indie booksellers increase holiday sales.

This week, ABA CEO Oren Teicher provides an update on the association’s participation in the nine regional trade shows and shares some of the questions and topics of concern voiced by booksellers who stopped by the ABA booth at each.

This week, ABA CEO Oren Teicher shares his regular update on association activities, and he focuses on ABA’s efforts to work with publishers to encourage the formulation of creative new industry business models that will help all industry stakeholders, a critical initiative that has ABA’s firmest commitment.

ABA President Becky Anderson shares her experiences as a guest at this summer’s Booksellers New Zealand and Australian Booksellers Association annual conferences, as well as a look at some of the things ABA is currently working on.

This week, ABA CEO Oren Teicher shares an update on association activities with members. Last month, ABA President Becky Anderson wrote the membership, and, moving ahead, she and Teicher will alternate each month with updates about the association's activities.

On Wednesday, July 6, ABA President Becky Anderson sent an e-mail to booksellers with the first of what will be regular updates about the association from both her and ABA’s CEO, Oren Teicher.

Emily St. John Mandel talks about The Singer’s Gun, Unbridled Books’ recent 25-cent e-book promotion, and her cautiously optimistic forecast for indie bookstores.

BTW talks to this year’s three director candidates for the ABA Board –  John Evans, Matt Norcross, and Ken White – about the challenges facing independent bookstores and ABA’s role in helping members meet those challenges head-on.

This week BTW launches “Booksellers Diary,” an occasional feature of first-person accounts of bookseller’s experiences on the frontlines. The first entry is from Carol Chittenden of Eight Cousins in Falmouth, Massachusetts.