Deadlines & Action Items

Let the advocacy team know about your experiences (positive or negative) so ABA can most effectively advocate for booksellers’ needs.

Those eligible for stimulus checks should ensure that they’ve provided the IRS with their direct deposit information. 

Booksellers are asked to fill out a form to indicate whether their store is open or closed and what services the store is still offering.

Today is the final day to apply for the scholarship program, which supports booksellers and comic retailers’ dependents, spouses, and partners in pursuing their higher education goals. 

Marketing and Technology Meetups will occur as normal through April; beginning in May, ABA will experiment with a new schedule of one Marketing Meetup and one Technology Meetup per month.

Attending booksellers will meet with groups of editors from participating publishers to talk about new and upcoming books.

ABA will also hold a Technology Meetup on March 3, which will focus on using Ingram’s iPage for book orders, featuring a demonstration from Ingram’s Marsha Wood.

The 2020 scholarship program supports booksellers and comic retailers’ dependents, spouses, and partners in pursuing their higher education goals.