Winter Institute Now Full: Wait List Forming

Updated: Monday, October 7

Registration for Winter Institute 2014 is now full.  ABA is currently adding names to an event waiting list. The ninth Winter Institute (Wi9) will be held January 21 – 24, 2014, at the Seattle Westin in downtown Seattle, Washington.

The Winter Institute hotel block at the Westin Seattle is also sold out, but ABA is taking names for a hotel waiting list. Registered booksellers without reservations at the Westin Seattle are encouraged to e-mail ABA Meetings & Planning Officer Jill Perlstein to add their names to the hotel waiting list.

There are just a few spaces for the remaining half-day tour of Seattle-area bookstores to be held on January 21, prior to the institute’s opening reception. Booksellers already registered for Wi9 who are interested in the remaining tour should send an e-mail to [email protected]. An ABA Member Relationship Manager will follow up to confirm that space is available and collect payment.

The Winter Institute, which is made possible by the generous support of Ingram Content Group, is open exclusively to Regular and Provisional ABA members and invited guests. There is a maximum of three registrants per member business. The 2014 conference fee is $79.99 per person and is nonrefundable. There is an additional nonrefundable charge for the full- and half-day bookstore tours.

Thanks to the Winter Institute’s sponsors, 50 scholarships will be awarded to booksellers this year. Scholarship winners will be selected from all ABA bookstore members, including Winter Institute registrants and non-registrants. Booksellers who drop off a business card at the ABA booth at any of the regional trade shows will earn an extra entry in the scholarship awards process. Booksellers at stores that have won a scholarship in the past three years are not eligible. Scholarships will cover the conference fee, up to four nights plus tax at the Westin Seattle at the special ABA rate, and transportation costs up to $400. Winners will be announced in mid-November.

For full details and to register, visit the Winter Institute 2014 event page on BookWeb.org. Information about travel discounts and airport shuttle service is also available.