This year's ABA Celebration of Bookselling Luncheon was a festive affair bringing together hundreds of indie booksellers and more than 40 authors whose works they nominated to the Indie Next Lists.
The final installment of "A Suggested Itinerary to Get the Most Out of BEA, ABA, and NYC" offers ABA member booksellers tips and highlights for Thursday, May 27, at the trade show.
Jim Sherin, president and CEO of the Retail Council of New York, provides a preview of the lessons from New York's e-fairness victory, as well as tips on lobbying lawmakers, which he will share at "Power to the Bookseller" at ABA's Day of Education.
Above the Treeline has launched Books@BEA, the official online product catalog for BEA 2010. The catalog features more than 10,000 titles from 300-plus exhibitors at this year's show.
emotionGallery, a French company with a new line of innovative bookmarks using lenticular images to create animated and 3D effects, will contribute $1 to ABFFE for every 10 bookmarks distributed by independent bookstores.
SCORE offers small businesses access to free business counseling provided by people with a wide range of operational experience. SCORE counselor Herbert Marks will be a panelist at ABA's Day of Education at BEA.
Former Congressman Tom Allen, the president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, will moderate a debate at BEA over the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down limits on the money that corporations can spend in political campaigns.
