Industry News

Registration for ABA’s fourth ABC Children’s Institute is now open to booksellers at all ABA member stores. The event will be held from June 21 to 23 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort International in Orlando, Florida.

After doctors told bookseller Mimi Applebaum she needed a lifesaving heart transplant, staff members at Inklings Bookshop sprang into action to raise money to help cover the exceptional expenses she and her family will incur.

This year’s Banned Books Week, from September 25−October 1, will shine the spotlight on banned or challenged literature by diverse writers and explore why diverse books are disproportionately singled out for censorship.

The special ABA rate at the Drake Hotel — Hotel ABA for BEA 2016 — is now available to all trade show registrants.

The deadline for nominations for the 2016 WNBA Pannell Awards has been extended to February 25. Nominations may be submitted by customers, sales reps, store personnel, or anyone who has been impressed with the work of a particular independent bookstore.

Downloadable fliers and shelf-talkers are now available to promote the March Indie Next List’s Next Great Reads, Now in Paperback titles, and Revisit & Rediscover backlist favorites.

Bookselling This Week's January 26 report on ABA’s Town Hall at Winter Institute 11 misrepresented the comments made by Kimberly Daniels Taws of The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina.

After attending Winter Institute 11, New Zealand booksellers Kiran Dass and Helen Wadsworth and U.K. bookseller Jane Streeter spent a few days working alongside their American colleagues at bookstores in California and Colorado, respectively.

The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates has launched “Owning a Bookstore: Foundations for Your Success,” a new online training program for prospective bookstore owners.

The American Booksellers Association’s Board of Directors met on January 21–22, 2016, in Denver, Colorado, just prior to the 11th Winter Institute.

Videos of the Winter Institute 11 plenary presentations by Martin Lindstrom, Kwame Alexander, and Amy Cuddy are now available online to ABA member booksellers.

ABA is urging the chief executive of Hong Kong to demand that Chinese authorities release five employees of a Hong Kong publisher and bookseller who are being held on the Chinese mainland.

Booksellers are invited to join ABA CEO Oren Teicher and Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger at a Spring Forum program in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, March 1, in conjunction with the SIBA in the Springtime! Day of Education at GABBS.

On March 1, Brian Juenemann will succeed Thom Chambliss as executive director of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.