January 4, 2014 
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Publishers Offers Program Goes National

In November, NAIBA created the Publishers Offers Program, a weekly summary of the current specials offered by publishers.

The simplicity and the value of the program was quickly recognized and NAIBA offered to share this information with booksellers across the country.  Each of the regional booksellers associations will disseminate the list compiled by NAIBA with their member bookstores.

The program is simple: every Friday publishers enter any new promotions and specials into a Google Doc and that information is emailed to book buyers in an excel spreadsheet every Monday morning. Booksellers don't need to search through dozens of emails to find special offers, or fear they didn't open a publisher's email and missed out.

Bookseller: If you haven't told NAIBA you want that list, email us now.

Publishers: If you want to receive the weekly reminder to post your promotions, email us now.
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NAIBA Event schedule: (I'm so excited!)

  • Beach Retreat for Tourist Town Stores  Sunday & Monday, February 23 & 24 Manasquan, NJ. Unlike city and suburban stores, booksellers in tourist destinations - whether the beach, lake or mountainside, face long stretches of downtime. We'll talk about those special challenges starting at 2pm on Sunday, have a fine dinner together with authors, stay at a Bed & Breakfast and continue on Monday morning. You can be back on the road by lunchtime.
  • Career in Bookselling In March (date to be finalized) in New York City. A day for frontline booksellers to learn about the profession of bookselling and the many jobs and rewards it has to offer.
  • Mixing New & Used Books Sunday, April 6, Aaron's Books, Lititz, PA. Not only will we talk about being a used store with new books or a new store adding used books, we'll cover large events for small stores and shop local efforts.
  • "A Customer Walks Into A Bookstore..." ABA Forum on how to handle difficult situations. Tuesday, April 29 at ABA's office, White Plains, NY
  • Trunk Show Monday June 16, Syracuse, NY. Annual day of book buying, meeting with reps, meeting with booksellers.
  • All About The Books Thursday, June 26, Hyde Park, NY. Joint with NEIBA, spend the afternoon with 10 authors and dozens of booksellers enjoying the written and spoken word.
  • NYC Social Monday, July 14 in New York City. Once again, we invite booksellers from all the boroughs and outlying suburbs to join us for a night of drinks and friendship, and to help launch a book.
  • NAIBA Fall Conference Friday - Sunday, September 19 - 21 at the Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Arlington, VA A must for booksellers, publishers and authors.
RSVP for all these events by emailing NAIBA or calling 516-333-0681

 
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