Winter Institute Scholarship Winners Announced

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. The scholarships cover reasonable transportation costs and up to a three-night stay at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown, for the Thursday, January 29, through Sunday, February 1, education event, open exclusively to ABA bookstore and provisional members.

ABA also awarded one Emerging Leaders scholarship and one scholarship to a bookseller chosen at random from among those who dropped off a business card at the association's booth at the fall regional trade shows. The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association named the recipient of a Winter Institute scholarship sponsored by Random House in memory of longtime sales rep Susan Reiheld.

"Thanks to the generosity of our Publisher Partners, today we can announce the recipients of this year's Winter Institute scholarships," said ABA Chief Program Officer Len Vlahos. "We hope all ABA members will join us in thanking these publishers for their continued support of our educational efforts. Special thanks goes to Ingram Book Company and Ingram Publisher Services for their overall support of the Winter Institute and ABA's other education efforts for the next three years."

• Jay Peterson, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN (Bloomsbury)
• Ellen Mager, Booktenders Secret Garden Children's Bookstore and Gallery, Doylestown, PA (Candlewick)
• Karlene Rearick, The Alphabet Garden, Cheshire, CT (Chooseco)
• Sandy Gross, Blue Manatee Children's Bookstore, Cincinnati, OH (Disney Book Group)
• Ed Conklin, Chaucer's Books, Santa Barbara, CA (Hachette Book Group)
• Kate Glasgow, Mitchell Books, Fort Wayne, IN (HarperCollins)
• Margaret Simpson, Diesel, a bookstore, Oakland, CA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Geoffrey Jennings, Rainy Day Books, Fairway, KS (Hyperion)
• Susan Hinkle, Page After Page Bookstore, Elizabeth City, NC (Ingram Book Company)
• Alex Green, Back Pages Books, Waltham, MA (Literary Ventures Fund)
• Diana Portwood, Bob's Beach Books, Lincoln City, OR (Macmillan)
• Melinda Powers, Capitola Book Café, Capitola, CA (Mira)
• Jonathon Welch, Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, NY (W.W. Norton)
• Bill Cusumano, Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI (Overlook)
• Sheryl Cotleur, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA (Penguin Group)
• Ellen Scott, The Bookworm, Omaha, NE (Penguin Young Readers Group)
• Christie Olson Day, Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino, CA (Perseus/Grove Atlantic)
• Peter K. Makin, Brilliant Books, Suttons Bay, MI (Peterson's)
• Julie Swayze, Metropolis Books, Los Angeles, CA (Peterson's)
• Jamil Zaidi, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA (Random House)
• Trish Brown, Hooray for Books, Alexandria, VA (Scholastic)
• Stephanie Walker, Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, CO (Simon & Schuster)
• Harvey Finkel, Clinton Book Shop, Clinton, NJ (Small Press Distribution)
• Carolyn Olsen, Sage Bookstore, Shelton, WA (Sourcebooks)
• Abbey Coleman, Indigo Bridge Books, Lincoln, NE (Unbridled Books)
• Stephanie Anderson, Moravian Bookshop, Bethlehem, PA (Weinstein Books)
• Roberta Dyer, Broadway Books, Portland, OR (Wiley)
• Lisa Stefanacci, Bookworks, Del Mar, CA (Workman)
• Tom McCartan, Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor, MI (ABA Emerging Leaders Scholarship)
• Mary Kay Pitts, Three Sisters Books & Gifts, Shelbyville, IN (ABA Regional Show Scholarship)
• Lori Peters, Wild About Books, Clearlake, CA (NCIBA/Random House scholarship in memory of sales rep Susan Reiheld)