Winter Institute Waiting List Forming

Last Friday, just eight days after the opening of registration for the Seventh Annual Winter Institute (Wi7), the event was booked to capacity, and the American Booksellers Association began accepting names for a waiting list.

Booksellers can add their names to the Wi7 waiting list here.

Wi7, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group, is open exclusively to ABA bookstore and provisional members and capped at 500 booksellers to ensure a dynamic yet intimate educational program. If and when there are cancellations, booksellers on the waiting list will be notified on a first-come, first-served basis. No one will be cleared from the waiting list after Monday, January 9.

Wi7 will be held from Wednesday, January 18, through Friday, January 20, 2012, at the Astor Crowne Plaza in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Reservations at the hotel at the special rate of $129 per night are available only to booksellers, publishers, and authors who are registered for Wi7. Registrants who have not yet made reservations at the Astor Crowne Plaza are strongly encouraged to do so soon. A special rate code and link to the hotel web page were provided in the e-mail confirming event registration.

Complete details about the Winter Institute’s education and special events schedules, session descriptions, presenters, travel discounts, and more are available on the new Winter Institute website, wi7.bookweb.org. Information on the site is being updated on an ongoing basis, so registrants are encouraged to check back often. The site also includes the registration pages for Wi7’s publisher sponsors.

Questions about the Winter Institute should be addressed to wi7@bookweb.org.