BookED

ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On January 11, 2024, Kelsy April of Bank Square Books (Mystic, CT) discussed hosting a "Mini Winnie" for your staff to bring Winter Institute back to your store.

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Join four new genre authors as they come together in conversation to discuss how they use and subvert different genre tropes to reimagine worlds past, present, and future.

Moderator: Calvin Crosby, Owner, The King’s English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT)

Panelists: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All Stars (Pantheon); Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings (Gallery/Saga Press); Taj McCoy, Zora Books Her Happily Ever After (MIRA); Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth (Peachtree)

Recorded February 21, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Employers use diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to create a more equitable, inclusive, and dynamic workforce. Designing and developing a DEI program involves four main phases:
1) Data collection and analysis to determine the need for change;
2) Strategy design to match business objectives;
3) Implementation;
4) Evaluation and continuing audit of the plan.
This session will be lead by Jason Thompson, author of Diversity and Inclusion Matters: Tactics and Tools to Inspire Equity and Game-Changing Performance (Wiley). Booksellers will leave this session with practical implementation ideas to begin a DEI program for their store. (All)

Speakers: Jason Thompson, VP for DE&I at Western Governors University

Recorded February 22, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Recorded February 21, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Join Michelle MiJung Kim, award-winning author of The Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change, and Hannah Oliver Depp of Loyalty Bookstores for a thought-provoking conversation about how each of us can — and must — be a part of creating a more equitable world. Drawing upon her lived experiences as a queer immigrant woman of color and her work across various industries, Michelle MiJung Kim will share how to move beyond performative allyship to building real solidarity toward social change. Known for her compassionate criticality, Kim’s session is one you won’t want to miss.

Recorded February 22, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Recorded June 5, 2023 at Children's Institute 2023 in Milwaukee, WI

The handout for this session, along with additional bookstore education resources, can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On August 10, 2023, Dick Hermans of Oblong Books (Rhinebeck, NY) discussed music retailing.

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Join a panel of booksellers as they discuss ways that they have become more efficient in basic bookstore operations. The panel will review how to organize invoices for efficiency, provide samples of easy-to-use forms to streamlined processes, discuss how to communicate with staff around new operations procedures, and more. Come to the session to listen and also share your own best practices.

Speakers: Luis Correa, Avid Bookshop (Athens, Georgia); Emma Nichols, Norwich Bookstore (Norwich, Vermont); Lauren Nopenz Fairley, Curious Iguana (Frederick, Maryland); Darryl Peck, Righton Books (St Simons Island, Georgia)

Recorded February 23, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On August 10, 2023, Cynthia Compton of 4 Kids Books & Toys (Zionsville, IN) discussed the platform Podium.

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Join Ingram for an informative workshop with essential tips and techniques for using ipage®. Whether you’re new to ipage® or an experienced user, gain a clearer understanding of our platform’s full capabilities so you will spend less time navigating and more time selling. In this session, you will learn how to refine your searches and order, understand tracking within ipage®, and learn more about Direct-to-Home ordering.

Speakers: Trent Shaw, Ingram Content Group (La Vergne, Tennessee); Leslie Jobson, Ingram Content Group (Berkeley, California); Johanna Hynes, Ingram Content Group (La Vergne, Tennessee)

Recorded February 23, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On October 12, 2023, Clark Mason, CFO of Vroman's Bookstore (Pasadena, CA), discussed the e-commerce fraud protection program, NoFraud.

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On October 12, 2023, Chelsia Rice of Montana Book Company (Helena, MT) discussed hosting Drag Story Hour.

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Whether you have owned a store for many years and are considering exiting a much-loved business, are planning for your store’s long-term future, or are a bookseller exploring options for keeping a business viable for many years to come, this is the session for you. This seminar will cover store valuation, alternate models for succession, how to raise capital, the importance of an emergency plan, and more!

The third and final part of this series features Kate Larson and Suzanne Droppert, current and former owners of Ballast Book Company (Bremerton, Washington); Michelle Bear and Mary Kay Sneeringer, current and former owners of Edmonds Bookshop (Edmonds, Washington); and David Sandberg, owner of Porter Square Books (Cambridge, Massachusetts).

Recorded February 20, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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Whether you have owned a store for many years and are considering exiting a much-loved business, are planning for your store’s long-term future, or are a bookseller exploring options for keeping a business viable for many years to come, this is the session for you. This seminar will cover store valuation, alternate models for succession, how to raise capital, the importance of an emergency plan, and more!

Part two of this three-part series features Tara Vitale and Peter Smith, Managing Partners at Apex Law Group.

Recorded February 20, 2023 at Winter Institute 2023 in Seattle, WA

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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ABA's Lightning Talk series features booksellers presenting 5-10 minute talks on tech tools, organizational strategies, communication methods, or innovations they’ve made in their stores. On June 15, 2023, Angela Trigg of The Haunted Book Shop (Mobile, AL) discussed harnessing the power of Airtable.

Additional bookstore education resources can be found at www.bookweb.org.

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