Bestselling author David Allen, widely recognized as the leading authority on personal and organization productivity, will focus on effectively taking on projects large and small and mastering key components in making a bookstore more productive at the Winter Institute’s “Efficiency 201: Accomplish More By Working Less.”
Noted retail expert Bob Phibbs talks about The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business, what not to do during an economic downturn, and his upcoming keynote address at ABA’s Winter Institute.
Sales at Wi6 of a T-shirt featuring an “enhanced” version of the classic painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” will benefit the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression.
ABA’s education staff is seeking input from booksellers for the Winter Institute education panel “New Adventures in Book Buying: Working With Reps Near and Far.” ABA would especially like to hear from those who use new technology to buy and/or communicate with reps.
Booksellers who haven’t already scheduled appointments to meet with book industry service providers at the Winter Institute’s Consultation Station are encouraged to do so soon.
With Winter Institute event registration and the Crystal Gateway Marriott booked to capacity, ABA is urging registered booksellers who are no longer planning to attend and those with hotel reservations that are no longer needed to contact ABA’s Member Relationship Managers as soon as possible.
Thirty-one booksellers have been awarded publisher-sponsored scholarships to the ABA’s Sixth Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group.
This week, ABA provides a full update of the schedule for the Sixth Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group, to run from January 19 - 21, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
