SEBA Contributes $25,000 to Bookseller Relief Fund

On Tuesday, September 27, the Southeast Booksellers Association (SEBA) announced that it was matching ABA's initial contribution to the Bookseller Relief Fund with a $25,000 contribution from the SEBA Board Reserve Fund.

"As hurricane season has become a part of the southern landscape in recent years, it is important that there be an avenue for booksellers who suffer from disasters," said SEBA President Sally Brewster of Park Road Books in Charlotte, North Carolina. "Many SEBA bookstores, even as far back as Hurricane Hugo, have suffered losses and there has not been a way to directly help those bookstores."

Brewster continued, "It is important for SEBA member stores to know that SEBA wants to respond to their needs in as many ways as possible, and this is one way that SEBA feels we can support our members. This is a wonderful way to support independent bookstores nationwide, and we hope that the fund is rarely used, but it is there for bookstores that need the help."

Other members of the SEBA Board are Rona Brinlee of The Bookmark in Atlantic Beach, Florida; Karin Wilson of Page & Palette in Fairbanks, Alabama; Sydne Waller of Chapter Eleven Neighborhood Bookstores in Georgia; and Michael Fraser of Joseph Beth Group in Ohio.

(Watch for continuing coverage on all of the regional booksellers associations' contributions to the Booksellers Relief Fund in Bookselling This Week.)