The American Booksellers Association’s annual Town Hall meeting at Book Expo always provides an interesting window into the issues on booksellers’ minds, and this year’s version was focused squarely on practical matters. First and foremost, booksellers wanted to know what happened to two promised initiatives from the past: Affordable group health insurance for booksellers and their employees, and the launch of a US version of Batch, the UK’s centralized digital invoicing and payment system. ABA ceo Oren Teicher said, “There is nothing more that I want to get done while I’m still at ABA than for stores to have access […]
