The reimagined Book Expo, mission focused on “what the booksellers have said they need to do business at the show” and armed with regional scholarships for each bookselling region has yielded…35 more ABA member stores represented at the show, ABA ceo Oren Teicher said. (Book Expo officials had said, “Our goal is to bring more stores to the show, and make sure all 50 states are represented.”) There are about 150 more individual ABA member booksellers present versus last year — when all badged booksellers and retailers numbered about 1,300. More broadly, at the ABA’s annual meeting on Thursday afternoon, […]
