Winter Institute

In less than two weeks, ABA’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute will be well underway in Washington, D.C. Here are some important logistical reminders for the more than 500 booksellers who will be in attendance.

Bestselling author David Allen, widely recognized as the leading authority on personal and organization productivity, will focus on effectively taking on projects large and small and mastering key components in making a bookstore more productive at the Winter Institute’s “Efficiency 201: Accomplish More By Working Less.”

Noted retail expert Bob Phibbs talks about The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business, what not to do during an economic downturn, and his upcoming keynote address at ABA’s Winter Institute.

Susan Weis-Bohlen, owner of breathe books, in Baltimore, Maryland, will lead a yoga class at ABA's Sixth Annual Winter Institute.

Ingram Content Group, the lead sponsor of ABA's Sixth Annual Winter Institute, this week announced its 2011 scholarship recipient.

ABA’s education staff is seeking input from booksellers for the Winter Institute education panel “New Adventures in Book Buying: Working With Reps Near and Far.”  ABA would especially like to hear from those who use new technology to buy and/or communicate with reps.

Sales at Wi6 of a T-shirt featuring an “enhanced” version of the classic painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” will benefit the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.

ABA’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute will feature a record-breaking number of new and established authors.

Booksellers who haven’t already scheduled appointments to meet with book industry service providers at the Winter Institute’s Consultation Station are encouraged to do so soon.

With Winter Institute event registration and the Crystal Gateway Marriott booked to capacity, ABA is urging registered booksellers who are no longer planning to attend and those with hotel reservations that are no longer needed to contact ABA’s Member Relationship Managers as soon as possible.

ABA recently welcomed five more publishers as Winter Institute sponsors. 

Thirty-one booksellers have been awarded publisher-sponsored scholarships to the ABA’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group.

ABA urges booksellers to schedule conversations with book industry service providers who will be at the Winter Institute's Consultation Station on Friday afternoon, January 21.

Booksellers who are registered for ABA’s Winter Institute are invited to sign up now for a merchandising tour of Washington, D.C.’s Revolution Cycles.

ABA has announced the winners of two scholarships to the Sixth Annual Winter Institute – the Joe Drabyak Frontline Fellowship, sponsored by Workman Publishing, and the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship, awarded by ABA to a bookseller at a store that submitted financial data to the 2010 ABACUS Survey.