ABA ceo Oren Teicher addressed the organization’s members at their annual meeting on Thursday afternoon, held as part of Book Expo, as usual framed optimistically but with some cautionary notes in the midst of “a retail landscape that is, to say the least, turbulent.” In addition to the membership numbers reported earlier this week, which ended seven years of growth in ABA members but saw more total member locations, Teicher noted that 87 new ABA member bookstores in 2016, and 15 member stores were purchased by new owners. “For many years,” he noted, “this sort of successful succession of the business was not […]
