Winter Institute

This week, ABA announced the winner of the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship, awarded to a bookseller at a store that submitted financial data to this year’s ABACUS Survey.

Winter Institute 7 registration and the host hotel, the Astor Crowne Plaza, are both now fully booked, and ABA is no longer accepting names for the registration waiting list.

Candlewick Press has named Marika McCoola of The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts, as the winner of its CHIRP scholarship to Winter Institute 7.

With the recent addition of two publishers at the Shared sponsorship level and the switch of another from Shared to Full, the 2012 Winter Institute sponsor list is now complete.

Wi7 registrants have until tomorrow, Friday, October 28, to book a room at the Astor Crowne Plaza at the special event rate unless the ABA room block sells out even sooner.

Here’s a look at the latest additions to the list of Wi7 presenters and roundtable moderators.

For the second year, Workman Publishing is sponsoring the Joe Drabyak Frontline Fellowship to the Winter Institute. Booksellers, publishers, and sales reps are encouraged to nominate booksellers for the fellowship by November 11.

As there are dozens of booksellers on the waiting list for Winter Institute 7, ABA is urging registered booksellers whose plans have changed to contact association staff as soon as possible.

The 2012 Winter Institute in New Orleans is made possible by the overall support of the Ingram Content Group, Wi7’s lead sponsor, and the support of more than 30 large and small publishers.

Last Friday, just eight days after the opening of registration for the Seventh Annual Winter Institute, the event was booked to capacity, and ABA began accepting names for a waiting list.

Winter Institute 7 is now fully booked. However, a waiting list is forming, and, if you would like to be added to the waiting list, please fill out the waiting list form.

Registration is now open for ABA’s Seventh Annual Winter Institute. Wi7, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group, will be held from Wednesday, January 18, through Friday, January 20, 2012, at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

ABA will open registration for the Seventh Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group, on Thursday afternoon, September 15. Wi7 will be held from Wednesday, January 18, through Friday, January 20, 2012, in New Orleans.

For the third year, the American Booksellers Association will award the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship to attend the Winter Institute to the owner or an employee of a bookstore who submits the store’s 2010 financial data to the ABACUS-10 survey before the August 15 deadline.

Meryl Halls, head of membership services for the Booksellers Association of the United Kingdom & Ireland, talks about her experience at Wi6, the value of collective brainstorming, the challenges facing booksellers in the U.K., e-books, and more.