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  • All regular ABA member bookstores in good standing may have up to four free, two-week Classified Ad insertions per calendar year. Additional ads may be purchased at a 25 percent discount off the regular rate.
  • Publisher members are entitled to paid classified (non-commissionable) ads at a rate of $100 per ad. (Note: All classified ads require prepayment.)
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Job Openings

Adult Book Buyer at Changing Hands Bookstore

Adult Book Buyer

Changing Hands Bookstore

Reports to GM/Buying Director. Hours: 40-45 per week

Pay rate: $44,000-$65,000 / $21.15 - $31.25 per hour. Range depends on upon experience.

Pay will be set based on book-buying experience and the buying department's makeup. Benefits package includes store discounts, paid time off, and access to company partially-subsidized health, vision, dental, and other insurance options. Simple IRA contributions with up to 3% matching funds.

Changing Hands Bookstore (CHB), established in 1974, has two Arizona locations — Phoenix and Tempe — and in its combined 20,000 square feet carries new, used, and sale books, plus a large assortment of gifts. The Phoenix location houses First Draft Book Bar, a beer / wine / coffee bar. CHB hosts author and community events. The combined staff totals approximately 80 employees. CHB also has a location at Sky Harbor Airport through a licensing agreement. We do not buy for the airport location.

To apply: Send a letter of interest along with your resume to [email protected].

BUYING

  • Buy and reorder new books for up to two locations of Changing Hands Bookstore.

  • Purchase books working with large and small publishers and their reps. Knowledge of Edelweiss+ and familiarity with publishers large and small.

    • Assistant buyer supports buyer(s) by going through frontlist catalogs when possible and assisting with other responsibilities as assigned.

  • Manage assistant buyer and backlist buying team.

  • Maintain good relationships with publishers and reps.

    • Stay apprised and in communication with publisher reps regarding policy changes, discount schedules, special offers, changes in imprint distribution rights, etc. Share this information with the appropriate teams.

    • Along with the staff recs coordinators, ensure that staff book recommendations go through Edelweiss+ and those go to Indie Next, reps, and publishers.

    • Send notes to sales reps regarding our bestsellers, staff recs, responses to their queries about what is selling, etc.

    • Create frontlist and backlist publisher orders and wholesale orders. Assistant buyer/backlist buyers assist with backlist buys.

    • Manage assistant buyer and backlist buying team.

    • Track all orders and follow up with reps on the status of orders.

    • Check stock at both stores and transfer overstock as needed.

  • Oversee all business-to-business orders, adult event orders, and special orders and assist the Kid's team as needed with Educational Sales and event book orders.

  • Oversee the buying and inventory of yearly calendars and planners.

  • Research and communicate new trends in the industry.

  • Research discounts and offers with wholesalers and publishers

  • Stay apprised of important titles such as “Hot Title” and “Remarkable Reads”

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

  • Responsible for new book inventory and overseeing receiving and returns operations. Able to serve as backup for book receiving as needed.

    • Working with the buying team, coordinate bi-annual publisher culls

  • Check stock at both stores and transfer overstock as needed.

  • Coordinate Above the Treeline and POS reports, analyze turns in various departments

    • Work in collaboration with kids and gift departments

    • Allocate space based on sales for each department as well as subject.

    • Assist with overall store merchandising and communication to keep the store looking

      fresh and interesting and, most importantly, sell the books you’ve ordered.

  • Meet with buyers across departments to increase cross-department communication.

  • Work with used books manager on trades, training, and monitoring inventory

  • Work with the remainder manager to discuss trends, monitor incoming stock and coordinate with

    new and used books inventory levels.

  • Monitor online sales and stay up-to-date on popular titles, inventory levels and orders. Check

    INET sales to stay apprised of online book orders.

  • Stay apprised of monthly inventory and sales reports generated by our accounts payable manager

    so that you know if inventory is increasing, or decreasing, and how it is tracking in both of the

    stores.

  • Oversee store physical yearly book inventory.

    • Work in collaboration with store management to prepare for inventory.

    • Work with IT in preparation and during to troubleshoot any potential problems

    • Oversee organization of staffing and scanning during inventory

    • Research and reconcile any inventory variances and make needed corrections

    • Troubleshoot any receiving issues and concerns.

    • Communicate with receivers about important laydown dates and ensure important titles

      get priority.

    • Back-up receiver and returns for both stores.

MARKETING & PROGRAMMING

  • Assist the receiving team with invoices and help report missing title claims.

  • Work with marketing to coordinate opportunities for programs and events.

    • Help build online campaigns to create virtual handselling opportunities and increase awareness of authors, books, and store programs.

    • Coordinate rep picks events for the public and staff.

    • Help make content and suggest titles for promotions.

    • Do occasional media interviews when requested to promote books on TV, radio, and print.

    • Help procure authors for store visits by working with the marketing and events teams on publisher grids and follow-up

    • Work with the events team to order books for in-store and offsite events

    • Oversee and ensure all event book orders for adult author appearances are completed and on track.

    • Investigate backlist possibilities at events.

  • Work with store managers on hand selling and customer service training.

  • Update staff on new releases and title-specific industry news to educate staff on bestsellers and discovery titles to increase handselling opportunities.

  • Occasionally introduce authors at events, moderate panels, and/or host community book talks.

  • Community Outreach

    • Serve on local non-profits or industry boards when appropriate.

    • Be aware and up to date on Local First initiatives, retail environments, bookstore industry news, etc., so that the store can reposition itself if necessary.

Qualifications include:

  • Book buying experience.

  • Able to lift 50 pounds.

  • Knowledge of budgets.

  • Familiarity with the publishing industry.

  • Read across genres, including fiction and nonfiction

  • Exhibit the capability to organize and prioritize competing daily and long-term demands.

  • Proactive, hands-on, strategic thinker with sharp analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.

  • Possess robust interpersonal and communication skills both spoken and written.

  • Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and a positive demeanor that motivates others.

 

Director of Operations at Changing Hands Bookstore

Director of Operations
Changing Hands Bookstore/First Draft Book Bar
6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe AZ 85283 300 West Camelback, Phoenix, AZ 85013 changinghands.com

Changing Hands Bookstore is seeking a Director of Operations. This is a full-time position, 40+ hours per week. As an integral part of our executive management team, the Director of Operations oversees finance and accounting; human resource (HR) activities such as payroll, administrative, and compliance functions; and assists with professional development, the IT department, facilities management, and legal matters, including leases. The Director of Operations, who reports directly to the CEO, plays a pivotal role in helping to shape the company’s vision and strategy, thereby helping to set the company’s priorities and direction. This position is based out of our Tempe location, and will spend time at both locations.

Changing Hands Bookstore (CHB), established in 1974, has two Arizona locations — Phoenix and Tempe. In its combined 20,000 square feet, it carries new, used, and sale books, plus a large assortment of gifts. CHB hosts author and community events. The combined staff totals approximately 80 employees. CHB also has a location at Sky Harbor Airport through a licensing agreement. The airport location and staff are not managed by CHB.

Salary range: $70-$85K. Salary depends upon experience. The benefits package will include store discounts, paid time off, and access to company partially-subsidized health, vision, dental and other insurance options. Simple IRA contributions with company contributions of up to 3% matching funds.

To apply, email a letter of interest and resume to [email protected].

Deadline - open until filled.

Finance and Accounting Leadership

  • Working with Accounting Manager and CPA, audit accounting activities, ledgers, and reporting systems, ensuring they adhere to the appropriate Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and regulatory requirements. Coordinate with the accounting team to monitor financial activities and produce and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.

  • Share insights from financial analysis with senior leadership, presenting reports, including monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements. Identify trends, track growth (or lack thereof), and recommend actions when necessary.

  • Working with department leaders, review and manage organizational cash flow forecasting to assess the financial effectiveness of operations and set up administrative systems to bolster operations.

  • Along with the CEO, co-monitor cash reserves and advise on investing funds not required for operations

  • Maintain internal control and safeguards for receipt of revenue. Monitor costs, budgets, and expenditures of funds.

  • Draft and oversee applications for grant opportunities and proposals (RFPs) for sales contracts.

Team Leadership

  • Coordinate, communicate, and align with other team leaders, offering guidance in enhancing internal communications with personnel at all organizational tiers, and establishing and advocating for a positive, high-performing, and nurturing work atmosphere.

  • Help identify, formulate, and execute business strategies, plans, and processes.

  • Contribute to a high-performing, customer-centric, engaging, and nurturing environment for employees. Look to create systems that continually improve efficiencies.

  • Acting as a senior leader of the frontline operations, the DOO co-creates standard procedures and protocols for consistency in operations across both locations to ensure profitability, sustainability, and a workplace with positive staff morale.

  • Assist in ensuring cross department and cross store communication.

  • Assist with overseeing facility management to ensure store managers are able to stay on top of facility issues. Report to ownership/leadership on issues regarding maintenance, repairs, and adjacent community issues.

  • Meet with department managers to discover new opportunities and improve current systems.

Human Resource Responsibilities

  • Oversee, update, and implement professional development for new employees and employees advancing into management positions.

  • Supervise or assist when creating and rolling out various short and long-term projects (e.g. software implementations, systems updates, certain promotional initiatives, etc.) to help ensure that the responsible parties complete the work correctly and on time.

  • Work with the payroll team to monitor processing of the bi-weekly payroll via a third-party payroll service

  • Review and oversee administration of employee benefits

  • Assess and submit for Board approval all legal documents, including but not limited to leases, employment contracts, independent contractor agreements (1099s), benefits such as employee insurance coverage, and unemployment claims.

  • Manage and assist with any HR claims.

  • Oversee and ensure that staff files for employees are utilized and updated. Manage HR systems for optimal employee engagement. Ensure that managers administer the 45 and 90-day check-ins and annual reviews for the teams that they manage along with daily upkeep and logging.

IT Responsibilities

  • Work with the IT department to ensure that IT issues are being resolved promptly, that our IT infrastructure is up to date and serving our needs, and that our POS, internet, servers, ethernet, WiFi, workstations, peripherals, phones, security systems, IndieCommerce Website Platform, anti-virus, and cloud backup systems are working.

Facilities and Legal

  • Supervise outside facilities management (e.g. landlords or rental agents) who are responsible for building maintenance for each location. Monitor leases and scrutinize their renewal conditions, annual rental increases, percentage rent charges, and Common Area Maintenance (CAM) charges. Report your findings on leases to ownership. Engage legal or other professional help with approval of ownership, as needed.

Qualifications

  • A proven leader with 5+ years of overseeing accounting and finance operations, managing the IT needs of a retail establishment (preferred), and working on legal aspects of a for-profit business including lease execution and renewals. Candidates will preferably have experience as an Operations Director or COO.

Additional qualifications

  • Possesses personal attributes of trustworthiness, and a steadfast dedication to the mission of Changing Hands Bookstore and First Draft Book Bar.

  • Exhibit the capability to organize and prioritize competing daily and long-term demands.

  • Proactive, hands-on strategic thinker with sharp analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities that facilitate strategic data-driven solutions.

  •  Possess robust interpersonal and communication skills with experience in effectively conveying key data.

  • Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and a positive demeanor that motivates others.

 

Retail Floor Manager at The Bookshelf

Retail Floor Manager at The Bookshelf in Thomasville, Georgia

The Retail Floor Manager will work 24 to 40 hours a week to create a warm, welcoming environment for area readers and to ensure The Bookshelf remains a sustainable, viable business, particularly for local clientele. The manager will oversee the day-to-day running of the sales floor to maintain floor and customer service standards. The Retail Floor Manager must be able to work on Mondays.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Supervises floor operations and staff
  • Empowers store staff to do their jobs well and cultivates camaraderie among employees
  • Oversees opening and closing shifts of the shop
  • Acts as a bookselling and customer relations role model to booksellers
  • Trains and develops new floor employees
  • Schedules floor staff shifts
  • Acts as the primary contact for floor staff, handling tardiness, call outs, or shift trades
  • Analyzes and reports on in-store sales numbers and data
  • Facilitates relationships between customers/staffers and the operations manager and store owner
  • Brainstorms ways to improve customer outreach for local and in-store customers
  • Works alongside the operations manager to arrange and handle bulk orders
  • Handles all donation requests in partnership with the operations manager
  • Works alongside fellow booksellers to create innovative book displays and end caps
  • Reorders and restocks select gift product in partnership with the inventory coordinator and shop owner
  • Participates in shop events, when appropriate

Position Requirements

  • Passion for reading
  • Minimum of 1 year of retail or management experience
  • Must be able to carry up to 15 lbs.
  • Must be comfortable sitting or standing for extended periods of time
  • Must be able to ascend and descend staircases as needed
  • Friendly and outgoing, comfortable with customer interactions and problem-solving
  • A confident leader who can direct a staff and manage relationships between employees
  • An independent, mature individual who can establish and set priorities, make work plans and execute them with efficiency and speed with little to no
  • day-to-day direction or support
  • Must be quick-thinking and flexible, able to handle issues that may arise during day-to-day dealings with customers
  • Ability to communicate clearly and promptly with bookstore owner and staff
  • Customer-service minded individual with a positive attitude

Applications can be submitted via online form.

 

ABA Chief Financial Officer

 

The American Booksellers Association (“ABA”) seeks a Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) to oversee the association’s financial activities. The CFO will report directly to ABA’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”).

The essential functions of this job include the following:

  • Overseeing ABA’s financial actions and controls
  • Budgeting
  • Financial planning
  • Managing cash flow
  • Overseeing payroll and HR
  • Overseeing health insurance
  • Overseeing accounts payable
  • Overseeing accounts receivable
  • Managing the association’s Accounting Manager and Director of Technology
  • Meeting deadlines
  • Setting priorities
  • Working independently

Required experience and education include:

  • Accounting degree
  • Demonstrated expertise with cash management
  • Demonstrated commitment to DEI
  • Supervisory experience
  • Risk assessment skills and management experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Strong problem solving skills
  • Strong accounting skills and knowledge
  • Knowledge of stock market investing
  • Knowledge of insurance
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong ability to prioritize tasks
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Strong writing skills
  • Strong time management skills
  • Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
  • Superior attention to detail.
  • Strong computer skills with a special emphasis on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Google suite
  • Strong ability to work independently with minimal team interaction or supervision

Preferred experience and education includes:

  • MBA or CPA
  • Retail accounting experience
  • Nonprofit experience
  • PowerPoint or Google Slides
  • Public speaking experience and/or skills

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

  • Close mental and visual attention required to perform work dealing primarily with preparing and analyzing data and figures, using a computer terminal, and/or extensive reading.
  • Must be able to sit, stand, walk, talk, and hear. Must be able to do repetitive motion of hands or wrists, finger, grasp, handle, or feel; push and pull with arms; reach with arms and/or hands; crouch, bend, or kneel. Occasionally may need to climb.
  • Must be able to occasionally lift up to 10 lbs.

Location
Remote. This position will require occasional domestic travel and some nights and weekends for conferences, regional events, and meetings approximately 25 days/nights a year. This position may also require occasional work on nights and weekends as business needs dictate.

Compensation
$150,000+ a year, depending on experience. Benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance; paid sick days, holidays, vacation, and personal days; and a 401k.

Tentative Timeline
ABA will accept applications on a rolling basis beginning September 2024 — watch this space for information on how to apply when applications open — with the goal of hiring a candidate by June 2025 in order to train with the outgoing CFO whose last day will be in August 2025.

Equal Opportunity:
ABA believes diversity and diverse perspectives make our organization stronger, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and an association that’s representative of all of our members and the customers they serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age; ethnicity; color; race; religion; sex; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; past or present military service; physical, mental, or sensory disability; national, social, or ethnic origin; neurodiversity; pregnancy; family or parental status; and/or genetic information (including family medical history).

*Important Note:
If you are passionate about ABA’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even if you don’t check all the boxes, please apply. We’d appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

 

Bookstores For Sale

For Sale: The Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, WA

The Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, WA, is for sale!

Have you ever dreamed of owning a charming bookstore in a beautiful seaport town? Well, here is your opportunity to take the reins of a successful business that has been operating in Port Townsend for nearly 50 years! Centrally located in historic downtown, The Imprint Bookstore & Writers' Workshop has been serving locals and tourists alike with a well-curated selection of new books, creative writing workshops & engaging, one-of-a-kind events. With a strong online presence and exciting potential for growth, this business is primed and ready for its next chapter. Please view with discretion and do not disturb staff.
 
 
To request more information, reach out to Sophie Elan ([email protected]).

 

 

For Sale: Twice Told Tales

Twice Told Tales in McPherson, Kansas is for sale.

Owner Libby Monaghan announced the sale on Instagram, writing:

"Ever since I took over ownership of Twice Told Tales back in 2018, I have never seen this space as “my” store, but more of Our Community's store. I just so happened to be the one tasked with minding the shop for the time being.

I am looking to pass the torch to the next lucky person and I'm so curious to find out who it's going to be!

Buying this business in the first place was such an adventure and the thought of selling it to someone else who will carry the vision and the magic forward is honestly thrilling to me, even though it's also bittersweet. I'm going to miss running Twice Told Tales!

It's been an honor to create and hold a safe space for many marginalized communities here in McPherson, and it is my hope to sell it to someone who will continue to make this a bright, central hub of connection for our town.

Twice Told Tales means the world to so many people in our community. We have shared countless stories, laughs, and moments that have made it more than just a bookstore; it has become a gathering place and a cornerstone of our community.

Because of this, I am confident that the exact right person (or people!) will step in and take their turn at the helm, ensuring its legacy continues. Might that person be you???

Thank you for being a part of this journey and for your continued support. Let’s ensure that Twice Told Tales remains a cherished place for all members of our community."

Interested parties can contact realtor Lanae Powell at 620-755-2467 or via e-mail.

 

About ABA

The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.

Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.

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