ABA Bookstore Members Eligible for Free BEA Badges

All ABA Regular Bookstore and Provisional members are eligible for free admission to BookExpo America 2010 [1]. The number of free badges will be based on a bookstore's ABA dues category. (A dues category one store will receive one badge; a category two store, two badges, etc.) An additional BEA badge is available for each staff member who attended the 2010 Winter Institute in San Jose.

All ABA members planning to attend the 2010 show, at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, must register via the BEA website [2]. ABA has provided BEA with information about the number of free badges for which members are eligible. A six-digit ABA Member ID number must be supplied at the time of BEA registration to qualify for the free badges. (Booksellers who don't know their Member ID number should send an e-mail with the store name, address, and key contact to info@bookweb.org [3].)

This year's new mid-week show schedule starts on Tuesday, May 25, with ABA's Day of Education, BEA conferences, and special events. The trade show floor will be open on Wednesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27.

ABA this week opened reservations [4], exclusively for booksellers at member stores, for the Celebration of Bookselling lunch, to be held on Wednesday, May 26, at the Javits Center. All trade show registrants can purchase tickets for BEA's Wednesday Children's Book and Author Breakfast, Thursday Adult Book and Author Breakfast or Lunch, and other special events via bookexpoamerica.com [1].

BEA's hotel exclusively for ABA member booksellers is the Park Central, located just north of Times Square [5]. To reserve a room at the low rates of $179 for one or two beds, single or double occupancy; $199 for triple occupancy; and $219 for a quad, ABA members will need to need to use a special code and web page, accessible here [6].

Watch for details on ABA's Day of Education programming in next week's issue of Bookselling This Week.