e-Newsletter August 17, 2015

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Laura Ayrey
Executive Director
MPIBA

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Association Information
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Kathy Keel
Project Manager
MPIBA
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Administration/Projects
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questions (Fall Discovery Show, Winter Catalog, Reading the West Book Awards, Website)
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Mark Your Calendar!


Fall Discovery Show (Trade Show) 2015
October 8-10, 2015
The Renaissance
Denver Hotel








Fall is Coming ...

Anne Holman shares her
favorite memories from
last year's Fall Discovery Show

I just received my MPIBA packet with the preliminary info about the upcoming Discovery Show and it made me smile from the inside out.

The Winter Catalog is going to be gorgeous once again and thank you to the publishers who have planned an incredible selection of books this year. It's odd to be making a list and checking it twice at the beginning of August, but that's retail right?

At The King's English, we're ordering bags and making sure we have enough gift wrappers signed up; thinking about Small Business Saturday and Indies First and so on.

And it starts in the fall with the Discovery Show ... I wanted to share a few of my favorite memories of Discovery 2014:


Watching the crowd clap for Eric Boss for a long, long, time.


Kevin Fedarko telling us that Kappy Kling and her staff made blueberry cobbler in a Dutch oven and put it in an inflatable raft for THE EMERALD MILE event at Hearthfire Books in Evergreen, Colorado.

During the ABA workshop when Valerie Koehler recognized "the gentleman from the great state of South Dakota."

Discovering Firehouse BBQ right around the corner
from the hotel.


Benjamin Whitmer ... 'nuff said.

Laughing all the way through Meg Sherman's rep picks.

Watching the volunteers chasing booksellers and shouting, "Don't take the signs!" after Literary Trivia.

Running into Laura Pritchett in the hotel lobby.
Love seeing new/old friends.


Taking the Order of Disorder pledge with Jory John.

Laughing so hard at everything Meg Wolitzer said.
Extreme Edelweiss ... extremely helpful!

The Discovery Show is a wonderful opportunity to see old friends, make new friends, and get ready for the holiday season. I'm looking forward to seeing all of you there.

Yours in books,

Anne Holman



 

Hashtag for the 2015
Fall Discovery Show
#MPIBA2015

Mountains and Plains is gearing up for another exciting Fall Discovery Show and we want to invite all of our booksellers, publishers, and authors to participate!

Use the hashtag #MPIBA2015 on all of your reunion pictures, posts about your favorite books from Pick of the Lists, author sightings, and more!

 

ABA President Betsy Burton's First Bimonthly Letter to Members
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Dear Fellow Bookseller:

"... when you gather 10 indie booksellers together you get one friendly, fractious, funny, and passionate discussion after another." 
The ABA Board met two weeks ago, and what a meeting it was. As I'm sure won't surprise you, when you gather 10 indie booksellers together you get one friendly, fractious, funny, and passionate discussion after another. And this was especially the case at our July meeting because it is arguably the most important Board meeting of the year.
 
Every July, the Board reviews the association's Ends Policies - a major agenda item. The Ends Policies are a clear expression of what ABA does, for whom, and at what priority to the association and the membership. They state what outcomes and results should be achieved, and these are the policies that the ABA staff, under the able leadership of ABA's CEO, Oren Teicher, carry out from now forward. Based on extensive member input, it is the annual responsibility of the Board to create and/or edit these policies detailing ABA's long-range goals.

...

"Our hope is that this new emphasis will mean that fresh tools might be developed to encourage the diversity the entire association desires." 
As for those goals, after long and voluble discussion the Board concluded that although largely we've been on the right track, there was a need to modify priorities in some of the Ends Policies. One necessary change had to do with diversity. Although it's always been an ABA policy to seek out diversity and to actively encourage diverse participation through scholarships and other aids to participation and/or training, the Board concluded that an emphasis should be articulated more clearly in our Ends Policies, and we made changes in order to do that. 
 
Our hope is that this new emphasis will mean that fresh tools might be developed to encourage the diversity the entire association desires.

...

The Board will be requesting that the membership vote to change the number of Board members from 10 to 11. We did this for two reasons: One - another duh - that it avoids tie votes - and the other, because one more place at the Board table will encourage the opportunity for diversity.

...

"The more engaged we all are the more effective we - and the ABA - will be." 
As ABA's new President, I am eagerly looking forward to working with all of you these next two years. I hope you'll never hesitate to reach out to me to share ideas or concerns (my e-mail is [email protected] and my cell is 801-792-8363). The more engaged we all are the more effective we - and the ABA - will be.
I also hope you are having a good summer reading and selling the rich crop of new books out now - and are looking forward as much as I am to receiving those forthcoming this fall!

Warm regards,
Betsy Burton
President, American Booksellers Association
The King's English
Salt Lake City, Utah


To read Betsy Burton's letter in its entirety, please click here:
ABA President Betsy Burton's First Bimonthly Letter to Members

 

#JonVoyage to a
Lover of Books
Photo courtesy of "The Daily Show" Facebook page and Comedy Central

"One of the great pleasures of this show is having a pulpit to introduce an audience to books I care about - books I love. I'm going to miss that." -Jon Stewart

Read more about Jon Stewart's final book recommendation on "The Daily Show" in this article from The Washington Post.
 

Book Display Inspiration
Photo courtesy of Porter Square Books' Facebook page.
 
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, displays their most stolen titles! What is your favorite book display?