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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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Bookseller group wants feds to investigate retailers' price war
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- 2009-10-22
The American Booksellers Association is asking the Justice Department to investigate the book price war that broke out last week between three of the nation's top retailers: Wal-Mart, Amazon.com and Target. In a letter to the Justice Department's Antitrust Division dated today, the independent booksellers group wrote that...
There's no place like home
- 2008-08-04
The popular food movement that urges people to "eat the view," meaning food that comes from nearby farms, has found a commercial cousin in the retail world. IndieBound, a program formed by the Tarrytown-based American Booksellers Association to empower independent retailers to take advantage of the localism movement is just...
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...
Winners of the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards announced
- 2007-04-02
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American Booksellers Association ABA has announced the winners of the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. The winner of the Adult Nonfiction category was Nora Ephron's book entitled I Feel Bad About My Neck and Sara Gruen won the...
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...
Prosecutor turns to (fictitious) crime
- 2005-03-10
For eight years, Michele Martinez hung out with criminals. As a federal prosecutor in New York City, she battled Mexican cocaine cartels smuggling drug money out of the country, fought Burmese warlords secreting hundreds of kilos of heroin into the USA and got the upper hand on crack dealers operating...
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...
Tarrytown campus glitters for Diamond
- 2004-08-16
Diamond Properties of Valhalla has snapped up its second Westchester office campus in the past two months with its purchase of the American Booksellers Association ABA campus in Tarrytown. The 104-year-old nonprofit will remain on the campus, on Route 9 (828 South Broadway) but will now lease from Diamond the...
Central Ohio bookstores report health sales of Clinton autobiography.
- 2004-06-23
By Tami Abdollah, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 23--Bill Clinton's autobiography, which hit store shelves yesterday, is being touted as this summer's Harry Potter. But the former president will need a lot of Potter's magic to ...
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 |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Manager | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba President, Changing Hands Bookstore | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Coo | Current |
| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Vice President, Secretary | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Associate Director of Programming | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Booksense.Com Director | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Book Sense Marketing Director | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Aba Director of Membership Marketing | Current |
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| American Booksellers Association, Inc | Current |
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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 |
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| 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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