Links of Interest: February 6, 2019

ABA Winter Institute / Bookselling

  • Never heard of Winter Institute? It’s the annual national conference for the American Booksellers Association (ABA), an advocacy organization for independent booksellers. Ann Trubek of Belt Publishing offers a publisher’s perspective.
  • At Winter Institute, past ABA presidents reflect on a bookselling industry that may need socks and tea towels for profitability. Multiple panelists spoke to the finances of bookselling. Gayle Shanks, co-owner of Changing Hands Bookstore in Arizona, commented that while the general . . .

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