Winter Institute

The American Booksellers Association's Fourth Annual Winter Institute, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Thursday, January 29, to Sunday, February 1, is now booked to capacity, and a waiting list is forming.

Participating in the American Booksellers Association's Fourth Annual Winter Institute, and aspiring to be an indie filmmaker, too? Well, ABA has a contest for you ... something in the vein of Sundance, the ultimate indie film festival ... maybe.

The American Booksellers Association is encouraging bookstore and provisional members who are interested in attending the Fourth Annual Winter Institute (Wi4) to register as soon as possible as the event is now almost booked to capacity.

As BTW went to press, the Emerging Leaders Council announced the recipients of six scholarships to the American Booksellers Association's Fourth Annual Winter Institute sponsored by Ingram Book Company/Ingram Publisher Services.

ABA's Fourth Annual Winter Institute, which will be held in Salt Lake City from Thursday, January 29, to Sunday, February 1, is now almost booked to capacity.

The keynote event at the American Booksellers Association's Fourth Annual Winter Institute will be a discussion about the state of the book industry featuring Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher, Grove/Atlantic; Nan Graham, vice president, editor-in-chief, Scribner; and Robert S. Miller, president and publisher, HarperStudio.

The American Booksellers Association's education team is busy working on Winter Institute session materials and is interested in talking with booksellers who have experience with book clubs, book fairs, or co-op.

Booksellers who would like to share their knowledge and experience with ABA staff are encouraged to send an e-mail to wi4@bookweb.org.

Among the special features of the upcoming ABA Winter Institute are store merchandising tours led by Calvin Crosby of San Francisco's Books Inc. and of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association's "Peer Eye Re

Twenty-eight booksellers have been named the recipients of publisher-sponsored scholarships to the American Booksellers Association's Fourth Annual Winter Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Registration for the American Booksellers Association's Fourth Annual Winter Institute, a free two-day education symposium exclusively for ABA bookstore and provisional members, is now almost booked to capacity. Event registration is capped at 500 participants.

The American Booksellers Association has announced changes to its Fourth Annual Winter Institute program schedule to allow for the addition of a new session: "Above the Treeline Electronic Catalog Solution: A Demonstration."

Registered for the 2009 Winter Institute in Salt Lake City yet? The free event, capped at 500 attendees, is packed with tough-times education, networking, author events, and store tours.

Booksellers interested in entering the drawing for publisher-sponsored scholarships to the Fourth Annual Winter Institute (Wi4) have until next Friday, October 17, to submit their names and contact information to the American Booksellers Association.

The American Booksellers Association would like to hear from members who have hosted creative and fun events to promote graphic novels and comics -- including book clubs, comic slams, mini comic conventions, or similar events. Booksellers' input will help guide ABA's Education Department staff as they formulate content for the Fourth Annual Winter Institute's session "Creative Graphic Novel Events and Marketing."

This week, Peterson's joined the list of ABA Publisher Partners sponsoring bookseller scholarships to the Fourth Annual Winter Institute.