The American Booksellers Association Annual Meeting and Town Hall was presented via Zoom yesterday, with outgoing president Tegan Tigani, ceo Allison Hill, and other board members sharing updates and fielding questions from booksellers. Tigani said in her introductory remarks: “The last year has been challenging. The turnover on our board mirrors turnover many of us are seeing in our stores. Our industry is experiencing high rates of burnout and churn.” She noted that booksellers are feeling strain from “reworking a school order to fit the parameters of a new budget, from testifying or waiting to testify in the Texas House […]
