ABA to Offer E-Books Session at MPIBA Trade Show

The American Booksellers Association will be at this fall’s Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association trade show [1] to offer educational programming, meet with booksellers about their concerns, and share updates on ABA’s programs and initiatives. Joining booksellers at the show, which runs from Thursday to Saturday, September 20 - 22, at Colorado’s Renaissance Denver Hotel, will be ABA CEO Oren Teicher, Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, and Member Relationship Manager Nathan Halter.

From 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, ABA staff will present the education session “E-Books and Independent Bookstores.” This program will introduce booksellers to a new way of selling e-books. Attendees will get the latest updates and an in-depth introduction to a digital solution that can add value to their bricks-and-mortar businesses. There will also be an opportunity for booksellers to ask questions.

In addition, ABA will be staffing a booth on the trade show floor, where booksellers are invited to learn more about how indies can continue to play a role in the world of e-books and how they can participate in a unique way in Small Business Saturday this November. The booth will also feature information on ABA’s first-ever Events Specialty Institute [2] to be held this October in Minneapolis, and about the Eighth Annual Winter Institute to be held in Kansas City, Missouri, in February 2013. 

Booksellers who drop off a business card at the ABA booth will earn an extra entry in a sweepstakes to win a Wi8 scholarship, covering up to four nights’ accommodations at the host hotel, a maximum of $350 in travel expenses, and the $75 Wi8 meal fee.

Complete trade show details are available on the MPIBA website [1].

Booksellers with questions about ABA’s participation at the MPIBA show should contact Nathan Halter via e-mail [3] or at (800) 637-0037, ext. 6614.