At the ABA’s annual general meeting CEO Oren Teicher noted the already announced gain in membership – with 105 new members, it’s the biggest increase in some time – but didn’t mince words about how independents “are living through a period of unprecedented change and staggering challenges” and that running a bookstore “can no longer be business-as-usual.” The challenge facing indies in the wake of Apple selling almost 20 million iPads in the past year is that “each of those iPads is also a full-color, live demonstration of the tug-of-war between books and competing media for a consumer’s attention.” The […]
