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ABA Partners With Hummingbird to Support eBook Sales via IndieCommerce Platform

10 October, 201810 October, 2018ABALeave a comment

The national trade group for museum gift shops and airport news stands has partnered with ebook startup Hummingbird to add ebook sales to the ABA’s IndieCommerce platform....

On Not Linking to Amazon

16 October, 201718 August, 2019ABA, Bookstore10 Comments

Every so often someone in the book industry tries to make an argument that websites should not link to the one site where everyone knows that...

ABA Gained 87 New Members in 2016, Including Bookcafe Volume Books

27 January, 201727 January, 2017ABA, Bookstore2 Comments

The American Bookseller Association revealed on Wednesday that 87 new bookstores had opened for business and joined the ABA in 2016. Spread across 32 states and the District...

Libro.fm Brings Audiobooks to ABA Member Stores

10 November, 201610 November, 2016ABA, Audiobook, BookstoreOne Comment

The American Booksellers Association has announced a partnership with Libro.fm, an audiobook distributor, which will add the latter’s audiobook platform to IndieCommerce, the ABA’s retail platform...

Stop Kidding Yourself: The ABA Does Not Represent Indie Booksellers

26 September, 201612 June, 2017ABA, Bookstore7 Comments

There are many commonly held beliefs in book world: that AAP stats reflect the entire industry, that Nielsen can accurately track ebook or print sales, that The...

Fact Check: If Almost Forty Percent of ABA Members Aren’t Actually Indie Bookstores, Can We Really Say There’s a Revival?

31 July, 201626 September, 2016ABA, Bookstore, DeBunking3 Comments

For the past several years it has been fashionable to write about the indie bookstore revival, but there’s a huge problem with many of the stories:...

ABA Expands Anti-Amazon FUD Campaign

4 March, 20168 January, 2019ABA, Amazon, PublishingOne Comment

The Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble. They’re only made of clay, but the ABA’s hostility towards Amazon is here to stay. The American Bookseller Association...

Amazon Books and the Robinson-Patman Act from an Antitrust Law Perspective

18 December, 201526 September, 2016ABA, Amazon, Antitrust, Bookstore, Publishing3 Comments

by Randy J Morris Following my most recent antitrust article looking into the Authors United Amicus Brief (which you can read here), I was contacted for...

Amazon Books, Antitrust Law, ETC

21 November, 201522 August, 2016ABA, Amazon, Antitrust, Bookstore8 Comments

The American Bookseller Association continued its campaign of viewing Amazon with alarm and suspicion this week. ABA CEO Oren Teicher had a few choice words to say...

ABA Now Sells Books From the IndieBound Site, But You Won’t Want to Buy Them

29 October, 201516 October, 2017ABA4 Comments

Here’s a bit of news that has me scratching my head: On Tuesday, October 27, the American Booksellers Association launched a test designed to increase traffic...

What The Authors Guild’s Mary Rasenberger Isn’t Saying About Amazon

31 July, 201528 May, 2020ABA, Amazon, Antitrust, DeBunking, Publishing, The Authors Guild13 Comments

No one at The Authors Guild or the American Bookseller’s Association was able to find an hour in their busy schedules to publicly debate their recent calls...

Kobo, ABA Renew Partnership For Another Year Even Though Indie Booksellers aren’t Selling Many eBooks

28 July, 20154 September, 2015ABA, Kobo7 Comments

If you were surprised in late May when Kobo revived its defunct affiliate partnership with US indie booksellers then this next piece of news will knock...

Kobo Revives Partnership With Indie US Booksellers

27 May, 20154 September, 2015ABA, Kobo2 Comments

So little has been written over the past couple years about Kobo’s partnership with indie booksellers in the US, that it would be easy to assume that...

New Reports Reveal that 2013 was a Dickensian Time for Indie Booksellers

21 February, 20144 September, 2015ABA, Bookstore7 Comments

The American Bookseller Association and its UK counterpart have each released new details this week on their membership rolls, and they have revealed that this is...

400+ Authors Will be in 256 Indie Bookstores Next Saturday

17 November, 201326 September, 2016ABA, Bookstore3 Comments

There’s a good chance that you’re going to be busy shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving this year,but if you have time you might want to...