Events

The Annual Meeting will take place at 2:00 p.m. ET with the Town Hall immediately following at 3:00 p.m. ET. ABA will provide details about the digital platform in the coming weeks.

Bestselling author Meg Cabot will be the Bookstore Romance Day Ambassador for 2020.

The popular book club is meeting each Wednesday in May to discuss Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning.

The book club will continue to meet each Wednesday in May to discuss Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning.

Representatives from Penguin Random House, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, and Hachette Book Group discussed virtual events. 

The book club will meet each Wednesday in May to discuss Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning.

This summer, instead of a reading challenge, the ABC Children’s Group is inviting bookstores to share a reading journal that gives young customers the chance to slow down and explore their love of reading.

The guest speakers discussed Sqweee, Crowdcast, Facebook Live, and Streamyard. 

Following last week’s announcement that BookExpo and BookCon will not take place this year, ABA is encouraging booksellers to review their hotel reservations and make cancellations as necessary.

Here, ABA offers publisher feedback on a range of questions, from what authors think about participating in virtual events to how booksellers can encourage sales during them.

Through April 25, the original date for the celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, booksellers are holding contests, creating book lists, and promoting the indie message.