BookExpo

18 Apr

Booksellers Can See Above the Treeline at BookExpo America

At this year's BookExpo America, to be held from May 18 through May 21 in Washington, D.C., booksellers will have a number of opportunities to see a demonstration of Above the Treeline, an online software product designed to help bookstores improve finances by optimizing inventory selection.

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12 Apr

Retailing Expert Paco Underhill on the Science of Bookselling


Paco Underhill
Photograph by Wyatt Counts

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12 Apr

NCSL's Neal Osten to Discuss Streamlined Sales Tax at Legislative Day

This week, the American Booksellers Association announced that Neal Osten, federal affairs counsel for communications and interstate commerce at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), will be a speaker at ABA's first-ever Legislative Day in conjunction with BookExpo America. Osten will provide attendees with an update on the current status of Streamlined Sales and Use Tax legislation (SSUTA) in Congress.

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11 Apr

BEA's Bilheimer Offers 10 Tips for a Successful Show

Roger Bilheimer, an independent consultant who handles media and publishing industry relations for BookExpo America (BEA), and who this year is overseeing special events at the trade show, offers 10 tips for a successful trip to Washington, D.C., this May:

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06 Apr

Attorney Robert Barnett Featured Speaker at ABA's Legislative Day

On Wednesday, May 17, the American Booksellers Association's first-ever Legislative Day at BookExpo America will begin at noon with a featured presentation by Robert Barnett, senior partner at the prestigious Washington law firm Williams & Connolly LLP.

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05 Apr

ABFFE Seeks Silent Auction Donations

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) is urging publishers, booksellers, and others in the book industry to support the fight for free expression by contributing to the ABFFE Silent Auction, to be held from Friday, May 19, through Sunday, May 21, at BookExpo America in Washington, D.C. The ABFFE website, www.abffe.com, will feature a concurrent Online Auction, which will continue for two weeks after the conclusion of BEA.

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04 Apr

BEA Spotlight: Programming for Children's, College & African-American Booksellers

ABA's fourth annual Day of Education on Thursday, May 18, at BookExpo America will provide a wide array of seminars and panel discussions with one goal in mind: increasing sales.

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04 Apr

NAIBA Offers D.C. Bus Tours & Bookstore Visit

The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) is once again offering special events open to BookExpo America attendees. Taking advantage of the show's location in Washington, D.C., NAIBA is sponsoring two bus tours that will visit many of the capital's most memorable sites. The first tour, leaving from the Washington Convention Center on Thursday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m., will include viewings and stops at the Washington Monument, the U.S.

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04 Apr

Lance Fensterman Named BEA Show Director

On Tuesday, April 4, BookExpo America announced the appointment of Lance Fensterman as show manager. Fensterman, who was most recently store manager for R.J. Julia at Elm Street Books in New Canaan, Connecticut, will report to Courtney Muller, group vice president at Reed Exhibitions. He will begin his job at Reed Exhibitions on April 10.

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30 Mar

Betty & Rhett Jackson to Receive ABA Lifetime Achievement Award

The American Booksellers Association will honor longtime South Carolina independent booksellers and community leaders Betty and Rhett Jackson with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Celebration of Bookselling at this year's BookExpo America. The award will be presented to the Jacksons by fellow South Carolinian, and longtime friend, author Pat Conroy. The Jacksons opened their bookstore, The Happy Bookseller, in 1975 in Columbia, South Carolina.

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30 Mar

BEA Benefit Features Bob Newhart, Paula Poundstone


Bob Newhart


Paula Poundstone

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30 Mar

ASAE's Dawn Latham to Discuss AHPs at ABA Legislative Day

This week, ABA announced that, at its first-ever Legislative Day', Dawn P. Latham, CAE, director of public policy, for the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), will be on hand to provide attendees with an update on the current status of Association Health Plan (AHP) legislation in Congress. "'Small business health plans is such a critical issue," Latham said. "I look forward to meeting the members of ABA to discuss this important legislation."

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30 Mar

BEA Registration Booklet on the Way

Booksellers should be on the lookout for the BookExpo America event program and registration booklet, which should arrive by mail soon. The booklet contains information about all facets of the show, including educational programs, special events, author appearances, autographing, a registration form, and more. This year's BEA runs from Thursday, May 18, to Sunday, May 21, at the Washington Convention Center in D.C.

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30 Mar

BEA Spotlight: Saturday ABA & ABFFE Programming

Among the highlights of the American Booksellers Association's programming scheduled for Saturday, May 20, at this year's BookExpo America are a reprise of the popular "Budgeting & Monitoring" seminar; a meeting of the Above the Treeline Users Group; and the panel presentation "Coping With Disaster: What to Do When Catastrophe Strikes." The day also features "Threats to Press Freedom in the War on Terror

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28 Mar

2006 BEA Buzz Participants Announced

Now in its fifth year, the Editor & Bookseller Buzz Forum at BookExpo America (BEA) will feature some of the publishing industry's top professionals presenting their favorite titles for the upcoming season. Panelists scheduled to present include:

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