BTW Articles

03 Jun

A Report on the May 2021 ABA Board Meeting

The American Booksellers Association’s Board of Directors met on May 12–13, 2021, via Zoom, to address a number of issues.

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28 Oct
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A Report on the October 2020 ABA Board Meeting

Among other business at their meeting, the American Booksellers Association's Board of Directors heard from President Jamie Fiocco on her activities on behalf of the association and from CEO Allison Hill on her activities since the last full Board meeting.

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01 Aug

A Report on the ABA Board’s 2012 Summer Meeting

From July 20 - 22, the ABA Board of Directors met in Naperville, Illinois, to consider a range of issues of concern to independent booksellers.

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09 Oct
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A Report on the September 2018 ABA Board Meeting

The American Booksellers Association’s Board of Directors met from September 21–23, 2018, in Carrboro, North Carolina, to discuss a range of items.

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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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27 Jun

IndieCommerce Institute Registration Begins Tomorrow

The American Booksellers Association announced this week the opening of registration for the two upcoming IndieCommerce Institutes (ICI). Booksellers with IndieCommerce stores are urged to keep an eye on their inboxes for an e-mail notification –– including a link to the registration page –– to arrive when the ICI registration site goes live tomorrow, at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern).

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24 Jan

Watch the Stars Come Out at Wi8

This year’s roster of Oscar nominees is rich with book connections, from Life of Pi, to Team of Rivals, to Silver Linings Playbook, to Anna Karenina, to Frankenweenie. Given that, what better place to discover who will be this year’s winners than with your industry colleagues at Wi8?

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20 Nov

Small Business Saturday’s Success Puts Indies in Media Spotlight

In its third year, American Express’ Small Business Saturday has established itself as the preeminent national holiday promotion for Main Street businesses, and it is generating substantial national and local advertising that encourages consumers to support their locally owned businesses.

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10 Oct

ABA and Binc Partner to Offer Emergency Financial Assistance to Indie Booksellers

This week, the American Booksellers Association and the Book Industry Charitable Foundation announced that they have entered into an agreement to offer a financial assistance program for employees of independent bookstores who are experiencing an emergency financial hardship.

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06 Sep

Ingram to Distribute Kobo eReaders to Indie Bookstores

Today, ABA announced that Ingram Content Group will be the exclusive distributor of Kobo eReaders as part of the ABA/Kobo eBook solution.

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