ABA to Visit Southeast, New Atlantic, and Mid-South in Next Five Days

ABA will be conducting Booksellers Forums in conjunction with regional booksellers association meetings, held from April 4 - 8, in the Southeast, New Atlantic, and Mid-South regions.

Southeast

The Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) Spring Seminar and Book Awards Celebration will feature a series of ABA programs in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, at the Park Road Hotel.

On Friday from 4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., ABA will provide a special "Sneak Preview" of the new 2003 ABACUS data for all stores that have already submitted their information and those that bring their information with them to Charlotte.

The Bookseller Forum will be held on Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, and is open to all ABA and SEBA members. ABA COO Oren Teicher and BookSense.com Director Len Vlahos will be there to answer questions and provide updates on association business. Breakfast will be included, compliments of SEBA and ABA.

New Atlantic

As part of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Spring Retreat (NAIBA), ABA will hold its Bookseller Forum on Monday, April 7, from 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m., at the Sheraton Society Hill, 1 Dock Street, Philadelphia.

ABA Board member John Bennett of Bennett Books in Wyckoff, New Jersey; Oren Teicher, ABA COO; Mark Nichols, director of Book Sense marketing; and Dan Cullen, ABA editorial director/editor-in-chief, Book Sense 76, will be present. Lunch is included.

Mid-South

ABA and the Mid-South Independent Booksellers Association (MSIBA) will host a Bookseller Forum on April 8 in Houston at Katy Budget Books, 2450 Fry Road in Houston, Texas. ABA COO Oren Teicher will be attending the forum, which will be followed by a luncheon co-sponsored by ABA and MSIBA.

For more information about any of the Bookseller Forums and ABA programming, contact Kristen Gilligan, ABA manager of communications, industry relations, and trade policy, at (800) 637-0037, ext. 1286 or kristen@bookweb.org.

For information about other programming at each of these events, contact the appropriate regional association: SEBA at (803) 252-7755 or sebajewell@aol.com; NAIBA at (516) 333-0681 or readingent@aol.com; or MSIBA at (281) 463-0438 or andy@msiba.org.