With dozens of booksellers still on the 2012 Winter Institute waiting list, it is crucial for registered booksellers whose plans have changed to contact ABA staff regarding cancellations as soon as possible.
Booksellers should schedule appointments now to meet with representatives from more than 15 service providers at the Winter Institute’s Consultation Station on Thursday, January 19.
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.
Thirty-seven booksellers have been named the winners of publisher-sponsored scholarships to the American Booksellers Association’s Seventh Annual Winter Institute, sponsored by the Ingram Content Group.
This week, ABA announced the winner of the Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship, awarded to a bookseller at a store that submitted financial data to this year’s ABACUS Survey.
Winter Institute 7 registration and the host hotel, the Astor Crowne Plaza, are both now fully booked, and ABA is no longer accepting names for the registration waiting list.
Candlewick Press has named Marika McCoola of The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts, as the winner of its CHIRP scholarship to Winter Institute 7.
Wi7 registrants have until tomorrow, Friday, October 28, to book a room at the Astor Crowne Plaza at the special event rate unless the ABA room block sells out even sooner.
With the recent addition of two publishers at the Shared sponsorship level and the switch of another from Shared to Full, the 2012 Winter Institute sponsor list is now complete.
For the second year, Workman Publishing is sponsoring the Joe Drabyak Frontline Fellowship to the Winter Institute. Booksellers, publishers, and sales reps are encouraged to nominate booksellers for the fellowship by November 11.
