Hotel ABA Reminder

With this year's Hotel ABA, The Renaissance Hollywood, currently booked to capacity, ABA member booksellers who would like reservations should contact the association's Margaret Nafz to be put on a waiting list. To ensure that as many waiting booksellers as possible can be accommodated, anyone who no longer needs their Hotel ABA reservation should contact Nafz, so the room remains in the ABA block and can be assigned to another member.

There are other hotel options close by Hotel ABA for those currently without reservations; however, the association has not negotiated special rates with these hotels. (ABA reminds booksellers to read a hotel's cancellation policy carefully before booking a room.)

Hotel ABA will be the site of ABA's Day of Education on Thursday, May 29, as well as several ABA- and publisher-sponsored special events, beginning on Wednesday, May 28.

Registration for the Day of Education, which is open exclusively to ABA bookstore and provisional members, is via the BookExpo America trade show site, www.bookexpoamerica.com, or the BEA registration booklet, mailing in April. In addition to registering for the trade show as ABA members, booksellers who wish to participate in the association's Thursday programming, including the breakfast and lunch events, must check off the appropriate boxes (these options appear on the website following the "Registration Choices" page). There is no registration fee for the Day of Education.

The BEA trade show will be held from Thursday, May 29, through Sunday, June 1, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.