VENDOR SHOWCASE
This showcase will feature vendors, business partners, and other book industry members that offer benefits to booksellers.
Make time to stop by and chat with representatives from these companies or click on their name below to make an appointment in advance.
Lanyard Sponsor:
Basil Bookseller Software
Contact: Mike McKnight
A modern POS and inventory management system designed for independent booksellers accessible from Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, Android and IOS. Integrated with Edelweiss, ATTL, E360, IndieCommerce, Pubnet, Ingram, Bookazine, Square POS and more.
APPOINTMENTS:
Visit https://basil.zohobookings.com/#/customer/ci2023 to make an appointment at Ci2023.
A modern POS and inventory management system designed for independent booksellers accessible from Windows, Mac, Chromebooks, Android and IOS. Integrated with Edelweiss, ATTL, E360, IndieCommerce, Pubnet, Ingram, Bookazine, Square POS and more.
APPOINTMENTS:
Visit https://basil.zohobookings.com/#/customer/ci2023 to make an appointment at Ci2023.
Batch for Books
Contact: Nathan Halter
Batch is a free, online platform used by indie bookstores to streamline how they organize, manage, and pay invoices. Discover Batch and spend less time on bookkeeping and more time on bookselling.
Ci2023 OFFER:
Batch is always free to use for indie bookstores.
Batch is a free, online platform used by indie bookstores to streamline how they organize, manage, and pay invoices. Discover Batch and spend less time on bookkeeping and more time on bookselling.
Ci2023 OFFER:
Batch is always free to use for indie bookstores.
Binc Foundation
Contact: Kathy Bartson
Binc helps the employees and owners of bookstores and comic shops with unforeseen emergency financial, medical, and mental health needs.
Binc helps the employees and owners of bookstores and comic shops with unforeseen emergency financial, medical, and mental health needs.
Booklog/Computerworks of Chicago
Contact: Wes Freeman
Booklog Point-of-Sale and Inventory Management accommodates all of your demanding business requirements. Grow into a multi-channel operation when you are ready with our modular approach.
Ci2023 OFFER:
We're offering 10% off our software at Ci2023.
Booklog Point-of-Sale and Inventory Management accommodates all of your demanding business requirements. Grow into a multi-channel operation when you are ready with our modular approach.
Ci2023 OFFER:
We're offering 10% off our software at Ci2023.
Bookshop.org
Contact: Sarah High
Bookshop.org began as an idea to help support bookstores by creating an alternative to Amazon for socially-conscious online shoppers. Our mission is to help local, independent bookstores thrive in the age of ecommerce by giving over 70% of our profit margin to independent bookstores.
APPOINTMENTS:
Drop by our table at the Vendor Showcase or register for a one-on-one appointment at this link to learn more: https://calendly.com/sarah-high-1/children-s-institute-one-on-ones?month=2023-06&date=2023-06-06
Ci2023 OFFER:
Enter to win a giveaway at our Bookshop.org vendor showcase table!
Bookshop.org began as an idea to help support bookstores by creating an alternative to Amazon for socially-conscious online shoppers. Our mission is to help local, independent bookstores thrive in the age of ecommerce by giving over 70% of our profit margin to independent bookstores.
APPOINTMENTS:
Drop by our table at the Vendor Showcase or register for a one-on-one appointment at this link to learn more: https://calendly.com/sarah-high-1/children-s-institute-one-on-ones?month=2023-06&date=2023-06-06
Ci2023 OFFER:
Enter to win a giveaway at our Bookshop.org vendor showcase table!
Drag Story Hour
Contact: Jonathan Hamilt
Drag Story Hour is a 501 c3 non-profit that celebrates reading through the glamorous art of drag. Our chapter network creates diverse, accessible, and culturally-inclusive family programming where kids can express their authentic selves and become bright lights of change in their communities.
Ci2023 OFFER:
Come out to See Mrs. Yuka for Karaoke at the end of the last day of Ci2023!
Drag Story Hour is a 501 c3 non-profit that celebrates reading through the glamorous art of drag. Our chapter network creates diverse, accessible, and culturally-inclusive family programming where kids can express their authentic selves and become bright lights of change in their communities.
Ci2023 OFFER:
Come out to See Mrs. Yuka for Karaoke at the end of the last day of Ci2023!
Edelweiss
Contact: Shaina Mahler
Edelweiss is an online digital platform and suite of services that allows booksellers to efficiently create orders, stay on top of new titles, access review copies, manage their inventory, and conduct targeted email marketing.
Edelweiss is an online digital platform and suite of services that allows booksellers to efficiently create orders, stay on top of new titles, access review copies, manage their inventory, and conduct targeted email marketing.
Every Child A Reader
Contact: Jena Groshek
Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy charity run by the Children's Book Council whose popular national campaigns include Children’s Book Week, the longest-running literacy initiative in the country at 104 years young; the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, with the Library of Congress; the Kids’ Book Choice Awards, the only national book awards chosen by children and teens; and Get Caught Reading, a free poster program of role models reading new and classic books.
Ci2023 OFFER:
12 new Get Caught Reading Posters
Every Child a Reader is a 501(c)(3) literacy charity run by the Children's Book Council whose popular national campaigns include Children’s Book Week, the longest-running literacy initiative in the country at 104 years young; the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, with the Library of Congress; the Kids’ Book Choice Awards, the only national book awards chosen by children and teens; and Get Caught Reading, a free poster program of role models reading new and classic books.
Ci2023 OFFER:
12 new Get Caught Reading Posters
Ingram Content Group
Contact: Ron Smithson
Ingram Content Group – Retail Sales Team
Stop by our table with any questions. Remember, no question is too big or too small! We are here because of you!
Ingram Content Group – Retail Sales Team
Stop by our table with any questions. Remember, no question is too big or too small! We are here because of you!
IRT - IBID - WordStock
Contact: Jeff Spakowski
We provide POS software and related services to Independent Retail Bookstores
We provide POS software and related services to Independent Retail Bookstores
Libro.fm
Contact: Karen Farmer
Libro.fm is the audiobook platform for independent bookstores. We are a social purpose corporation and are 100% employee-owned.
Libro.fm is the audiobook platform for independent bookstores. We are a social purpose corporation and are 100% employee-owned.
PartnerShip LLC
Contact: Harry Centa Jr.
Rely on FedEx for all of your shipping needs and save through the ABA benefits program. Members receive 50% off FedEx Express and 30% off FedEx Ground. If you currently ship with FedEx, but aren't enrolled in the PartnerShip program, you’ll be able to continue using it the same way you do today.
After you enroll in PartnerShip's FedEx Advantage Program, the discounts will be added to your account and then automatically applied to your shipments. Don’t have an account? You can open one when you enroll: www.PartnerShip.com/ABA-FedEx
Need to check to see if your bookstore is enrolled? Contact Harry Centa, Jr. at the email above.
Rely on FedEx for all of your shipping needs and save through the ABA benefits program. Members receive 50% off FedEx Express and 30% off FedEx Ground. If you currently ship with FedEx, but aren't enrolled in the PartnerShip program, you’ll be able to continue using it the same way you do today.
After you enroll in PartnerShip's FedEx Advantage Program, the discounts will be added to your account and then automatically applied to your shipments. Don’t have an account? You can open one when you enroll: www.PartnerShip.com/ABA-FedEx
Need to check to see if your bookstore is enrolled? Contact Harry Centa, Jr. at the email above.
She Said It
Contact: Kathryn Christenson
She Said It is a greeting card company. Our line features quotes from amazing women from history...Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Marie Curie, Sarah Breedlove, and many more. She Said It is the intersection of our love for reading, meaningful words, snail mail, and beautiful art. We hope that by sharing the words and stories of these incredible women, women of today are inspired to dream, love, and be themselves!
Ci2023 OFFER:
NO minimum order requirement for orders placed June 5-15, 2023
She Said It is a greeting card company. Our line features quotes from amazing women from history...Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Marie Curie, Sarah Breedlove, and many more. She Said It is the intersection of our love for reading, meaningful words, snail mail, and beautiful art. We hope that by sharing the words and stories of these incredible women, women of today are inspired to dream, love, and be themselves!
Ci2023 OFFER:
NO minimum order requirement for orders placed June 5-15, 2023