As Usual, ABA Members Drop; Organization Committed to Educational Efforts At the ABA annual meeting, the membership report went by even more quickly than usual — perhaps because full bookstore members of the organization were down over 9 percent, from 2.097 the year before to 1,908. Provisional members, comprising prospective booksellers, also dropped, from 135 the year before to 90. It’s gotten hard to know, however, if the organization’s membership stats reflect the actuall numbers of booksellers, since as ABA head Avin Domnitz noted, “there are a lot of booksellers who come to this convention and don’t belong to this […]
