The American Booksellers Association named 55 booksellers as winners of scholarships to the ABA's eighth annual Winter Institute in Seattle, Wash., this coming January. Bookselling this Week reported that 49 are recipients of scholarships from Wi9's publisher sponsors. An additional five ABA members have been awarded scholarships by the Book Industry Charitable Foundation and ABA has named the recipient of its Avin Mark Domnitz Scholarship, awarded to a store that participated in the 2013 ABACUS Survey. Publisher-sponsored Winter Institute scholarships cover the conference fee, up to a four-night stay at the host hotel and transportation costs up to $400.
"Once again, publishers have demonstrated their commitment to independent bookselling by sending a record-breaking number of scholarship recipients to the Winter Institute," said ABA Development Officer Mark Nichols. "We hope all of our members will join us in thanking them for their continuing support."
