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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.
Chief Executive Officer
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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NAICS Code Business Associations: 813910
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Big box panic: Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving
- 2008-01-01
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON THE CORNER of Newbury Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Boston sits one of the famed architect Frank Gehry's least inspired creations. "360 Newbury" is a big box of a building--appropriate considering that its first three floors have long housed big-box record stores-famous only as Gehry's sole...
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 indies back in court against giants.(Blockbuster Inc., Borders and Barnes & Noble, American Booksellers Association)(Brief Article)
- 2001-04-16
In a case with striking echoes of the lawsuit filed by independent retailers against Blockbuster Video and the studios, a trial pitting a group of independent booksellers against retail giants Borders and Barnes & Noble began last week. The suit was...
Tapping into Harry Potter.
- 2000-04-01
For retailers missing out on the phenomenal success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter children's book series, a recent survey of independent booksellers has produced a list of the Top 10 "Potteresque" books to tide over young readers until the next installment of the Potter saga arrives...
Indy 2000 announces keynote speaker.
- 2000-02-14
The Indy 2000 tradeshow, slated for April 26-27 at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay resort, has announced the keynote speaker will be Richard Howorth, board president of the American Booksellers Association. Addressing independent retailers at the second annual event, Howorth is expected to outline the history...
Buy the Book - African American bookstores face challenges
- 1999-02-01
Black bookstores may be going the way of the dinosaur. Here's what retailers must do to survive and thrive. ON A WARM SUNDAY AFTERNOON in mid-August, Sherry McGee stood near the front of her store, the Apple Book Center in Detroit, surveying the crowd of 50 or so customers....
Shackled by chains
- 1998-04-13
Beanie Babies and greeting cards have joined books by John Grisham and Toni Morrison on the shelves at Main Street Book Shop in White Plains. Three decades after opening its doors, the downtown shop is trying to hold its own against a WaldenBooks store in The Galleria mall three blocks...
Shackled by chains
- 1998-04-13
Beanie Babies and greeting cards have joined books by John Grisham and Toni Morrison on the shelves at Main Street Book Shop in White Plains. Three decades after opening its doors, the downtown shop is trying to hold its own against a WaldenBooks store in The Galleria mall three blocks...
Read all about it: mass nabs book, magazine sales
- 1995-04-17
NATIONWIDE DSN REPORT -- Who says the general public doesn't read anymore? Not the nation's discount retailers, which are scrambling to carve out more floor display space and designate new areas within their stores to promote books and magazines.To judge by the level of activity, this may well be the...
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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 |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Vice President, Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Associate Director of Programming | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Booksense.Com Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| 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 |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board Member | Current |
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| 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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