Booksellers Win in ABA/Book Sense Lounge

The ABA/Book Sense lounge at BookExpo America 2005 was very rewarding for all booksellers who visited -- demonstrations of BookSense.com and gift cards, comfortable chairs, computers with Internet access, opportunities to network with other booksellers and with ABA affiliates, exotic teas, and less exotic candy bars were just some of the benefits offered.

For six visiting booksellers, there was an additional reward: they each won a new color inkjet printer in a random drawing of business cards. The lucky booksellers are Fran Keilty of the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington Depot, Connecticut; Kerry Slattery of Skylight Books in Los Angeles; Andrea Avantaggio of Maria's Bookshop in Durango, Colorado; Laurie Benner of Reader's Choice in Centerville, Ohio; Joci Tilsen of Valley Booksellers in Stillwater, Minnesota; and Kate Branch of Branch's Chapel Hill Bookshop, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In a random drawing for the Book Sense Book of the Year winners and honor books displayed in the center of lounge and provided by Ingram Book Company, the winner was Linda Berentsen of Orca Books in Olympia, Washington.

In a raffle conducted by ABA affiliate Bank of America, the two winners of $50 Visa gift certificates were Kathryn Henderson of Market Street Books & Maps in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Ann Burlingham, owner of the soon-to-open Burlingham Books in Perry, New York.