ABA CEO Oren Teicher has written an open letter to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos that highlights the glaring discrepancy between the company’s recent statements in support of sales tax fairness and Amazon’s latest exploitation of an inequitable strategic advantage.
Independent bookstores are showing continued resilience this holiday season, with reported online and in-store sales well over last year’s results, according to ABA.
This week, ABA announced that the 2013 Winter Institute will be held in Kansas City, Missouri. Wi8 will begin with an opening reception on Friday, February 22, 2013, and will feature programming from Saturday, February 23, to Monday, February 25.
ABA CEO Oren Teicher shares an update about some new ABA tools as well as other relevant information that the association hopes will help indie booksellers increase holiday sales.
Over the past month, ABA IndieCommerce has rolled out a series of major updates to member stores’ IndieCommerce sites. The work, done with the help of Drupal development firm Optaros, was based on bookseller feedback.
On Thursday, November 10, ABA announced that Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, a long-time book industry professional, was joining the association as senior program officer, a newly created senior executive position.
The committee charged with reviewing the practices of the ABA’s Board and officers to determine whether they are in accordance with established policies and procedures is seeking member input via a simple online form by next Thursday, November 17.
