Indie Booksellers on Display at LA Times Festival of Books

This weekend, 11 independent booksellers will be exhibiting at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, to be held at the University of Southern California just prior to the April 19–21 ABC Children’s Institute.

Booksellers can visit their colleagues at the festival on Saturday, April 18, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Bookstores exhibiting at the festival are:

• {pages} a bookstore (Booth 707)
• Book Soup (Booth 88)
• Kinokuniya Bookstores Los Angeles (Booth 84)
• Mrs. Nelson’s Book Fair Company (Booth 720)
• Mysterious Galaxy (Booth 368)
• Mystery Ink (Booth 376)
• Once Upon a Time (Booth 732)
• Skylight Books (Booth 138)
• Small World Books (Booth 356)
• Stories Books and Café (Booth 186)
• Vroman’s Bookstore (Booths 117 & 137)

To assist booksellers in finding the 11 exhibiting  stores, ABA has adapted the festival’s map to highlight their booth numbers as well as the ABA member meeting spot, the Radisson Hotel. A PDF of the map is available here.

Booksellers attending the festival on Sunday, April 19, can drop their luggage and pick up a printout of the festival map in Board Room 201 at the Radisson Hotel on the University of Southern California campus. The room will open at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday and close at 4:00 p.m., giving booksellers enough time to make it to the Hilton Pasadena for the Children’s Institute opening keynote with Jeff Kinney, which begins at 5:30 p.m.

The map highlighting ABA member booksellers will also be on hand at the ABA Welcome Desk at the Hilton Pasadena.

A general map for the festival can be found here.

To get to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books from the Children’s Institute in Pasadena, booksellers can take the Metro Gold Line to Union Station, where Festival Shuttle Buses will be running in a continuous loop between the station and the festival site. The shuttle buses begin service at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday and conclude one hour after the festival closes each day.

Visit the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books website to learn more about the event. For full details about the Children’s Institute, visit BookWeb.org/ci2015. Questions about the institute should be addressed to ABC Group Manager Matthew Zoni.