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Former ABA CEO Avin Mark Domnitz died on Saturday, June 27. Since then, friends and colleagues have been offering their thoughts on a man who was a passionate advocate for independent booksellers, a good friend, and a loving husband and father.

In honor of Suzy Staubach’s retirement from UConn Co-op, The Wayne Norman Show invited authors Wally Lamb, Lynn Bloom, Sam Pickering, and Bruce Cohen to share their favorite memories of Staubach and the bookstore.

ABA Development Officer Mark Nichols, Membership Program Manager Pete Reynolds, and Design and Production Manager Linda Ford discuss their work with the association’s Publisher Partners, on the Indie Bestseller and Indie Next lists, and more. 

During a 2,400-mile cross-country bicycling tour to raise money for three charities, Village Books co-owner Chuck Robinson is visiting with friends old and new, popping into bookstores, and tackling tough terrain.

Avin Mark Domnitz, the American Booksellers Association’s CEO from 1997 to 2009, died on Saturday, June 27, of cancer. He was 71.

Jay Lansdown, the owner of Constant Reader Bookshop in Sydney, Australia, talks to BTW about his first BookExpo America, this past May.

Booksellers have selected Anything Could Happen, the debut Young Adult novel from Will Walton of Avid Bookshop, as one of the Summer Kids’ Indie Next List’s top picks.

Hut Landon, the longtime executive director for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, is retiring after 16 years as the regional association’s executive director. The NCIBA board has appointed a search committee to find Landon’s successor.

Neil Strandberg will be leaving his position as director of technology for ABA in July to become director of technology and operations for Shelf Awareness in Seattle.

Gary Fisketjon, Kent Haruf’s longtime editor and friend, talks about the author’s final novel, Our Souls at Night, and his legacy as a writer.

During Thursday’s Celebration of Bookselling Lunch, Oren Teicher, current CEO of the American Booksellers Association, honored former CEO Avin Mark Domnitz with the help of ABA presidents past and present.

The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen discussed his new book Purity in a conversation with Salon staff writer and co-founder Laura Miller at BookExpo America’s opening event on Wednesday, May 27.

Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See, talks to BTW about what the support of independent booksellers has meant to the success of his book. Doerr will be at the May 28 Celebration of Bookselling to receive the Indies Choice Book of the Year Award for Fiction.

Ryan Quinn brings 12 years’ experience in e-commerce customer support to her new position as an IndieCommerce specialist at ABA.

For St. Louis, Missouri’s Left Bank Books, the past year was the most successful — as well as one of the most eventful — in the store’s 46-year history.