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The American Booksellers Association's efforts to ensure that publishers that are developing electronic catalogs are making them as useful as possible for independent booksellers continued this past weekend. On Friday and Saturday, August 22 and 23, ABA's Electronic Catalog Task Force met at the Doubletree Hotel at the San Francisco Airport to get bookseller input and to fine-tune recommendations that ABA Board members and staff will discuss with publishers at a series of meetings in conjunction with the Board's mid-September meeting in New York.
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Avin DomnitzNumber of Employees 74
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200 White Plains Rd Ste 600
Tarrytown, New York 10591
1 914 591 2665
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Publishers Weekly Offers Free Subscriptions to Qualified Booksellers
- 2006-10-03
NEW YORK -- Publishers Weekly today announced that it is offering free subscriptions to qualified booksellers throughout North America. This program extends the publication's reach into the book retailing marketplace, including independent booksellers, mass merchants, chain stores and specialty stores that manage, select or purchase books. For the first...
Book buyers are speeding up in hurry-up world
- 2005-06-06
NEW YORK -- As the book world winds up its annual national convention, some retailers are wondering about the fate of a cultural institution. It's not a book or a publisher, but a customer, the old-fashioned bookstore browser who picks and pokes and doesn't care about the critics or Oprah...
Book Sense
- 2004-10-01
http://www.booksense.com/ For those who appreciate the expertise and personal attention offered by their local independent or specialty bookstore, this site is a wonderful respite from the usual blockbuster fare. Managed by the American Booksellers Association, it began with a bestseller list driven less by sales and more by bookseller...
ABA and Publishers Weekly join forces
- 2004-02-20
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Booksellers Association ABA has teamed up with industry magazine Publishers Weekly PW to provide vital industry information to its members via the PW magazine and website. PW reaches 200,000 industry professionals and will provide the ABA with advertising space throughout...
ABA and Publishers Weekly join forces
- 2004-02-20
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Booksellers Association ABA has teamed up with industry magazine, Publishers Weekly PW, to provide vital industry information to its members via the PW magazine and website. PW reaches 200,000 industry professionals and will provide the ABA with advertising space throughout...
Seattle's Independent Bookstores Stay Alive by Reading the Market, Customers.
- 2002-05-11
By Marc Ramirez, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 11--Saws are buzzing and dust flying in Ravenna, where Third Place Books is writing the latest chapter in what might be called The Fate of the Independent Bookstore. Here, on the...
R.R. Bowker To Acquire PubNet; Company To Purchase Remaining 75 Percent of ``Direct Ordering'' E-Commerce Service from Leading Trade Associations
- 2002-05-03
Business Editors NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 3, 2002 R.R. Bowker, a leading publisher of bibliographic information and one of the most venerable names in the publishing industry, today announced that it has agreed to acquire PubNet, an electronic commerce service that allows booksellers to order titles directly from...
Booksellers Group Web Site to Help Small Stores Gain Online Presence.
- 1999-07-11
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 11 -- If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. In September, the American Booksellers Association will launch its own book-selling Web site, Book Sense.com. Book Sense will allow small, independent bookstores to sell books ...
Virtual bookselling.(American Booksellers Association 1997 convention)
- 1997-06-30
Most of the large publishing houses failed to send representatives to the American Booksellers Assn convention, possibly because of resentment over a previous lawsuit. However, the mood of the convention was upbeat and Amazon.com Inc, the Internet bookstore, was well represented. Red-shirted Amazons--employees of Amazon.com, "Earth's Biggest...
In so many words: how technology reshapes the reading habit
- 1997-03-01
Fears that the Internet and other technologies will cause the decline and fall of print media are probably not warranted. Although people aren't reading as many books as they used to, their thirst for information seems limitless. Publishers who enhance the reading experience with electronic media may find the next...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Avin Domnitz | Chief Executive Officer |
| Gayle Shanks | Aba President, Changing Hands Bookstore |
| Oren Teicher | Aba Coo |
| Michael Tucker | Aba Vice President, Secretary |
| Kristen Gilligan | Associate Director of Programming |
| Len Vlahos | Booksense.Com Director |
| Mark Nichols | Book Sense Marketing Director |
| Meg Smith | Aba Director of Membership Marketing |
| Elizabeth Haslam | |
| Kim Ricketts | Member |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Becky Anderson | Aba Board Member |
| Cathy Langer | Board Member |
| Tom Campbell | Board Member |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Manager | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba President, Changing Hands Bookstore | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Coo | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Vice President, Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Associate Director of Programming | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Booksense.Com Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Book Sense Marketing Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Director of Membership Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Board Member | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board Member | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board Member | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Kim Ricketts Book Events LLC. | Current | |
| Kearney Visitors Bureau | Member | Current |
| James Beard Foundation | Member | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Member | Current |
| Bellevue Chamber of Commerce | Member | Current |
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