News - Regional

This week, ABA announces the opening schedule for its 2011 Spring Booksellers Forums. The first forum will be held in conjunction with the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association on Thursday, February 24, at Katy Budget Books in Houston, Texas.

Study looks at buying habits of mystery readers; SBA offers disaster preparedness webinars; Australia’s Queensland bookstores affected by devastating flood; AAP names Andi Sporkin vice president, communications; Ingram’s CoreSource to provide e-content management for university presses; PNBA announces 2011 book award winners

The Board of Directors of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association has named Laura Ayrey to succeed Lisa Knudsen as executive director.

On Friday, October 29, the Midwest Booksellers Association announced the appointment of Carrie Obry as its new executive director.

Here are snapshots from the last two fall shows.

Here's a quick look at some of the happenings at the recent  Great Lakes and Pacific Northwest booksellers association trade shows.

At last month’s Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association fall show, author Jonathan Evison (West of Here, Algonquin) inspired booksellers with a presentation of his “Ode to Bookselling.”

Here are a few scenes from last week's New England Independent Booksellers Association and Midwest Booksellers Association trade shows.

ABA staff will be at the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association trade show next week to offer educational programming and to meet with booksellers on the show floor.

Novelist George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth storytelling series and The Moth Radio Hour on NPR, is setting out on a 14-city tour across Georgia to spread the word that the independent bookstore is an “unmatched local resource.”

ABA staff will be at the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes booksellers associations’ fall shows next week to offer educational programming and to meet with booksellers on the trade show floors.

The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association has hired Deborah Leonard, a publishing and bookselling veteran, to be the organization's new executive director.

Here are a few scenes from last week's New Atlantic, Mountains & Plains, and Southern indie trade shows.

As budget talks heated up in California this week, ABA, NCIBA, and SCIBA urged their members in the state to call Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office to express support for sales tax fairness.

ABA staff will be at the New England and Midwest booksellers associations’ fall shows next week to offer educational programming and to meet with booksellers on the trade show floors. Booksellers who stop by the ABA booth can learn about membership specials and enter their names for an extra chance to win a scholarship to the Winter Institute.