Winter Institute

03 Oct

Winter Institute Now Full: Wait List Forming

Winter Institute 2014 is now booked to capacity; waiting lists are forming for event registration and for reservations at the host hotel.

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26 Sep

Winter Institute 2014 Very Close to Capacity

Winter Institute 2014 registration is now very near its limit of 500 booksellers, and ABA is encouraging any member who wants to attend to register as soon as possible. The ABA block at the host hotel, the Westin Seattle, is currently sold out, but booksellers are encouraged to add their names to the hotel waiting list.

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25 Sep

Seattle Gift Show Offers Free Admission to Winter Institute Attendees

Booksellers who are in Seattle before the start of the Winter Institute can visit the Seattle Gift Show free of charge. The wholesale trade show runs from Saturday, January 18, through Tuesday, January 21, at the Washington State Convention Center.

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25 Sep

Workshop to Present Fundamentals for New & Prospective Booksellers

Registration is now open for a one-day workshop for new and prospective booksellers to be presented by the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates on Tuesday, January 21, just prior to the opening of Winter Institute 2014 in Seattle.

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19 Sep

Winter Institute Registration Filling Fast

Just one week after registration opened for Winter Institute 2014, event registration is more than half filled. ABA is encouraging all booksellers who want to attend the January 21 – 24 event in Seattle to register online as soon as possible.

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12 Sep

Registration Opens for Winter Institute 2014

Registration for the American Booksellers Association’s ninth annual Winter Institute, to be held on January 21 - 24, 2014, at The Westin Seattle in Seattle, Washington, is now open.

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27 Jun

Domnitz Scholarship for Wi9 Open to ABACUS Participants

The American Booksellers Association will once again be awarding the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to attend the upcoming ABA Winter Institute (Wi9) to the owner or an employee of a bookstore who submits the store’s 2012 financial data to the ABACUS-12 survey before the July 15 deadline.

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08 Apr

Getting the Most Out of BookExpo America

At Winter Institute 8, veteran booksellers Barbara Theroux of Fact & Fiction and Bill Cusumano of Nicola’s Books joined Other Press Associate Publisher Paul Kozlowski and BEA Event Director Steve Rosato to give actionable advice on the best strategies for tackling BookExpo America.

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08 Apr

CAMEX Rebate Deadline May 15

Booksellers who visited the CAMEX trade show while they were in Kansas City for Winter Institute 8 and then placed an order of any size from an exhibiting vendor between February 24 and April 1, 2013, are entitled to a $100 rebate per ABA member store.

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04 Apr

The Benefits of Working With Self-Published Authors

At a Winter Institute session that focused on how independent bookstores can form beneficial relationships with self-published authors, Paul Hanson of Village Books and Harvard Book Store’s Jeff Mayersohn shared details of their store’s successful practices, and Ron Smithson of Ingram Content Group introduced a program that will make it easy and profitable for indies to offer self-published works.

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21 Mar

Booksellers Address Best Practices for Increasing Genre Sales

At Winter Institute 8, Towne Book Center & Cafe’s Kit Little, Boswell Book Company’s Jason Kennedy, and Mysteryscape’s Cheri LeBlond discussed their stores’ best practices for promoting sales of romance, science fiction, and mystery titles with booksellers interested in increasing their genre sales.

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14 Mar

Non-Traditional Events: Booksellers Share What Works

At the Winter Institute session “Beyond the Traditional Author Event,”panelists sweet pea Flaherty of King’s Books, Lacey Dunham of Politics and Prose, and Lauren Savage of The Reading Bug addressed the logistics of planning successful and creative events to increase traffic and drive sales.

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14 Mar

Survey Seeks Bookseller Input on Winter Institute 8

ABA is asking member booksellers who participated in Winter Institute 8 to complete a short survey about all aspects of last month’s event in Kansas City. The survey will arrive via e-mail within the next few days.

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07 Mar

Wi8 Panelists See Immense Opportunity in Common Core Standards

At the Wi8 breakout session “Nonfiction Buying With Core Curriculum in Mind,” panelists Becky Anderson of Anderson’s Bookshops, Kenny Brechner of Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksellers, and Richard Buthod of Turtleback Books explained how the new Common Core State Standards are impacting their schools, communities, and nonfiction sales.

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