Winter Institute 2018

Mentors and mentees will meet at assigned tables for keynote breakfasts. Table assignments are noted on attendee badges.

Pick up your badge, the official Wi13 welcome bag from Candlewick, and a full schedule of Institute events. Group and table assignments are printed on bookseller badges. Member Relationship Managers Elizabeth Roberts and Daniel O’Brien can answer any questions about ABA or Wi13.

If you are a new or young professional in the book business, this party is for you! Talk to members of Indies Forward, an organization dedicated to supporting young booksellers, make new friends, and experience the Winter Institute together. This is a great opportunity for fun and engaging conversations about bookselling. Sponsored by Lit Hub/Bookmarks, Typewriter Rodeo (Andrews McMeel), and the National Book Awards, with help from NEIBA, NAIBA, SIBA, GLIBA, MIBA, MPIBA, PNBA, NCIBA AND SCIBA.

Winter Institute scholarship recipients and their sponsoring publishers meet to say hello and thank you prior to the Wi13 Welcome Reception. The Meet and Greet will be held at the Cadre, 149 Monroe Avenue in Memphis. Shuttle buses will run between the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel and the Cadre every 15 to 20 minutes between 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Everyone receiving a scholarship should plan to attend the Meet and Greet.

The Independent Publishers Caucus offers a forum in which the concerns, challenges, and common needs of small- and mid-sized independent houses may be discussed. Chaired by Dan Simon, publisher of Seven Stories Press, and Tom Hallock, associate publisher of Beacon Press, the meeting is by invitation only to independent publishers and their staff. For more information, please e-mail Matthew Zoni, director of development and publisher relations at ABA.

Pre-registration required; no fee; space is limited; registrants need not be registered for Winter Institute.
Discuss the art of selling used and rare books with fellow booksellers. Topics will include merchandising policies, inventory acquisition, events, displays, remainders, online sales, store layout, and more. Hear from veterans and newbies alike about the unique world of used books. Developed and presented by Shane Gottwals of Gottwals Books and the Walls of Books Franchise (Warner Robins, GA). E-mail Lisa Winn to register.

Pre-registration required; $59 fee per person per seminar; space is limited; attendance at Winter Institute is not required.
The IndieCommerce Institute is an interactive, classroom-style workshop for users of ABA's IndieCommerce platform. Attendees can register for either a morning or an afternoon seminar for $59 each, or for both morning and afternoon seminars for $118. Each seminar will include step-by-step instructions for each topic covered. Detailed description is here. Register now for IndieCommerce Institute.

Pre-registration required; $45 fee per person; space is limited.
A full-day guided tour that will take booksellers to Oxford, Mississippi, to tour the town and visit Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner, and Square Books. Highlights include Faulkner's grave, the Lyceum (site of the Ole Miss riot of 1962), the James Meredith statue, and historic Oxford Square, featuring three Square Books locations, boutiques, and many places to eat lunch. Most of the tour is guided, but guests will have several hours to explore historic Oxford Square on their own before returning to Memphis.
Meet at the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel “fountain” entrance. The tour will end at approximately 3:45 p.m. at the Sheraton. Register here for Yoknapatawpha County Tour. Registration closes when the tour reaches capacity.

Pre-registration required; $119 fee per person; space is limited; lunch provided.
A one-day seminar for anyone interested in opening a bookstore. Students will receive a crash course on the essentials of opening a new bookstore or buying an existing one. The workshop is open to ABA Provisional members and employees of Regular member stores, and is limited to three booksellers per ABA member company. The workshop will be facilitated by Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman of Paz & Associates Bookstore Training Group (Fernandina Beach, FL). Registration has closed.

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Pre-registration required; $65 fee per person (includes lunch); space is limited.
Travel the “Blues Highway” with guide Jamie Kornegay as he points out significant historic Civil Rights and Delta blues sites between Memphis, Tennessee, and Greenwood, Mississippi. The tour will stop at Greenwood’s Turnrow Book Co. for time to explore the store followed by a down-home Delta lunch at Fan & Johnny’s, with surprise guest authors appearing at both locations.
Meet at the Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel “fountain” entrance. The tour will end at approximately 4:30 p.m. at the Sheraton, with a stop beforehand at the Cadre for Wi13 scholarship recipients to disembark for the Meet and Greet.

Pick up your badge, the official Wi13 welcome bag from Candlewick, and a full schedule of Institute events. Group and table assignments are printed on bookseller badges. (If you are registered for the IndieCommerce Institute, the Paz Workshop, or the Principles of Bookstore Finance Seminar, your badge and other Wi13 materials are in your session room.)