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At ABA’s nine Spring Forums, scheduled for locations across the country, booksellers are invited to share ideas, discuss industry issues, and receive updates on ABA projects, as well as take part in the all-new education session “Finding New Efficiencies in a Changing Retail Landscape.”

For the second consecutive year, ABA is inviting booksellers at the Winter Institute to take part in an open discussion about industry and association issues of concern to them.

ABA is offering members not currently using the IndieCommerce program a chance to win a free year of the e-commerce platform for indie booksellers.

ABA is offering members not currently using the IndieCommerce program a chance to win a free year of the e-commerce platform for indie booksellers.

ABA has begun a new initiative to ensure that its e-mail communications, which cover a wide range of topics and specialties, are reaching the right personnel at member stores.

Beginning with today’s issue, Bookselling This Week will be arriving in subscribers’ inboxes on Wednesday afternoons each week.

ABA President Betsy Burton offers warm wishes to her fellow indie booksellers and words of thanks for the efforts of each of the association’s staff in her last letter of 2015 to members.

ABA is offering members not currently using the IndieCommerce program the chance to win a free year of the e-commerce platform for indie booksellers.

Groups representing booksellers and authors joined in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 2, to urge the court to review a lower court decision that found Apple violated antitrust law by conspiring to influence e-book pricing.

ABA member stores that are not currently part of the IndieCommerce program can apply from now through February 29, 2016, for a chance to win one free year of IndieCommerce.

As the holidays approach, ABA CEO Oren Teicher highlights some key points that he hopes will help make the coming weeks as successful and profitable as possible for ABA member stores.

ABA has joined with people all over the world in expressing heartfelt condolences to the people of France and the families of those who died in the horrific events in Paris on November 13.

Bookseller DIY is the first section to be featured in Bookselling This Week’s new series of articles on getting the most out of the association’s website.

ABA is asking booksellers to take part in a brief survey that will provide the association with valuable insights into the ways it can improve communications with members. 

In the second in a series of ABA Board profiles, BTW talks to ABA Vice President Robert Sindelar, the managing partner of Third Place Books, about his early experiences with reading and books, his bookselling career, his goals as a Board member, and more.