Monday, March 27, 2006
Emerging Leaders of Bookselling
There's a group of booksellers forming a discussion group to discuss how bright, talented people can afford to stay in the book industry, particularly bookselling.
They've come up with a great list of topics:
Financial Seminars: how to be a bookseller and not have a roommate; how to be smart with the little money you have; etc.
Bookstores of the Future: What do they look like? Will they include multi media? Is their a new model emerging?
Pushing the Status Quo: how can we improve profits to directly increase salaries?
Mentoring and Peer Networking from booksellers who have been leaders in the industry.
The ABA is sponsoring a scholarship to BEA open to booksellers who consider themselves Emerging Leaders. The ABA is also sponsoring a get-together on Wednesday night of BEA.
Read the whole article on the scholarship and EL group idea at Bookselling this Week:
I'm very excited to see this dialogue opening. Longtime friends and readers know that this site has been collecting news and idea of interest to independent bookstores for years. I've been hoping that a new generation of booksellers would find each other and figure out how to take independent bookselling forward.
Looks like we're taking a giant step towards that this year.
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They've come up with a great list of topics:
Financial Seminars: how to be a bookseller and not have a roommate; how to be smart with the little money you have; etc.
Bookstores of the Future: What do they look like? Will they include multi media? Is their a new model emerging?
Pushing the Status Quo: how can we improve profits to directly increase salaries?
Mentoring and Peer Networking from booksellers who have been leaders in the industry.
The ABA is sponsoring a scholarship to BEA open to booksellers who consider themselves Emerging Leaders. The ABA is also sponsoring a get-together on Wednesday night of BEA.
Read the whole article on the scholarship and EL group idea at Bookselling this Week:
Emerging Leaders grew out of an ongoing conversation among several booksellers that took place at industry events. "We were looking to see who was in the new group of booksellers moving up behind us, and we couldn't see who they were. We thought we needed to create an opportunity for the next generation to find each other."
Hill described Emerging Leaders as "more of a movement, not a membership. We're just trying to start a dialogue and raise awareness around issues related to the future of the industry, and create ways to support the emerging leaders who will be directing that future." Emerging Leaders is open to "anyone who sees themselves in the book industry 20 years from now," Hill said.
To find out more about Emerging Leaders, or to be added to the mailing list, e-mail emleaders@gmail.com.
I'm very excited to see this dialogue opening. Longtime friends and readers know that this site has been collecting news and idea of interest to independent bookstores for years. I've been hoping that a new generation of booksellers would find each other and figure out how to take independent bookselling forward.
Looks like we're taking a giant step towards that this year.
