Spotlight on ABA Board President Mitchell Kaplan
ABA bookstore members are currently casting ballots to elect 2005 - 2006 ABA Board directors and to ratify the ABA Nominating Committee's choice of Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books of Coral Gables, Florida, for a second term as ABA President and Russ Lawrence of Chapter One Book Store in Hamilton, Montana, for a first term as Vice President.
In a statement released on April 12, 2005, the co-sponsors of the 
This week, the American Booksellers Association announced that Hotel ABA - NYC, the exclusive hotel for ABA member booksellers attending BookExpo America 2005, had sold out. In June 2004, ABA, working with BookExpo America, secured the Park Central Times Square Hotel as the hotel for ABA bookstore members, at a special room rate of $125 per night, and began taking advance reservations.
For Kerry Slattery of Skylight Books in Los Angeles, the timing of ABA's announcement of a new partnership with Constant Contact -- a company that provides services to manage e-mail marketing campaigns -- could not have been better. "I was just getting ready to do our regular e-mail newsletter for April and the announcement coincided with that," Slattery told BTW.