International Indies and Innovation at Day of Education

U.S. indie booksellers at ABA’ s Day of Education [1] at BookExpo America [2] (BEA) will have the opportunity to hear how colleagues in other countries are working to successfully innovate and fashion profitable solutions to the challenges facing bricks-and-mortar booksellers both here and abroad.

This discussion, led by ABA CEO Oren Teicher, will be the focus of the hour-long panel “Indies International: Bookselling in Other Countries,” set for 1:30 p.m. on Monday, June 4, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Joining Teicher will be Simon Skinner, sales director of Nielsen BookData U.K.; Fabrice Piault, vice editor-in-chief of France’s Livres Hebdo; and Franziska Bickel, owner of the Vogel bookstore in Schweinfurt, Germany, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Retail Booksellers Committee of the German booksellers association, Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. The session will be open to all badged BEA attendees.

“It’s becoming increasingly clear that booksellers in the U.S. and abroad are facing many of the same issues — the industry effects of digital content, Internet sales, taxation policies, publishing terms, book selection, inventory control, and bookstore systems, to cite just a few,” said Teicher. “We are grateful for the participation of these experienced and insightful colleagues in a discussion that we hope will help facilitate idea sharing and, where possible, learning from each other as we move toward the mutual goal of developing bookstores that are profitable and unparalleled places for the discovery of new books and outstanding authors.”

Here’s more information about ABA‘s Day of Education [1]and about [3] BEA [3].